Getting Started with DirectSound
[The feature associated with this page, DirectSound, is a legacy feature. It has been superseded by WASAPI and Audio Graphs. Media Casting have been optimized for Windows 10 and Windows 11. Microsoft strongly recommends that new code use Media Casting instead of DirectSound, when possible. Microsoft suggests that existing code that uses the legacy APIs be rewritten to use the new APIs if possible.]
This section gives information on setting up and debugging DirectSound projects, as well as a brief overview of the programming steps required to play a sound.
More information on getting started is included in the following topics: