I have had a good look through the documentation and looked all over
the internet but there seems to be very little to do with C# and
multimedia.

I have downloaded the DirectX 8.1 SDK and looked at that for
information about MIDI input/output but can't seem to find anything.
Most resources seem to point to the DirectMusic Producer for producing
music to go with Games etc.

The only .NET MIDI libraries seem to belong to C++ with the mmsystem.h
header file. Is there a similar equivalent available in C#. Might i
have to produce a C++ wrapper for this file to use it with C# or is
there something obvious i have missed.

I don't have endless experience with any of the C variants so i might
in the end use Java to produce my application. I like the .NET
development environment and think this would be 'nicer' to use to
produce a Windows Application.

What should/can i do?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Jonathan Davies

You have to use PInvoke like MCI
  http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=1
(or to mmsystem, directmusic)

or use the "Managed Extensions for C++"
and write wrapper classes:

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/techinfo/articles/upgrade/managedex...
  section 'Managed C++' :
    http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/cplusplus/

  check on your VS.NET install path:
    ...\VC7\managedextensionsspec.doc
    ...\VC7\migration_guide.doc

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