How can I get Visual Studio to beep at me if a build succeeds?

Question

Often, I need to recompile and it takes a minute or two, so I tend to switch to a web browser to kill that time. Sometimes I forget to look back and the build succeeded a fe

Answer 1

1. Open Up a Macro Explorer (Alt + F8).
2. Create a new Macro Project if you don't have one already.
3. Open up Microsoft Visual Studio Macros (Alt + F11)
4. If you don't already have a macro titled EnvironmentEvents create it.
5. Make sure the macro contains the following code (pay attention to the snippet at the bottom!)

The code:

Option Strict Off
Option Explicit Off
Imports System
Imports EnvDTE
Imports EnvDTE80
Imports EnvDTE90
Imports EnvDTE90a
Imports EnvDTE100
Imports System.Diagnostics

Public Module EnvironmentEvents

    #Region "Automatically generated code, do not modify"

    'Automatically generated code, do not modify
    'Event Sources Begin
     Public WithEvents DTEEvents As EnvDTE.DTEEvents
     Public WithEvents DocumentEvents As EnvDTE.DocumentEvents
     Public WithEvents WindowEvents As EnvDTE.WindowEvents
     Public WithEvents TaskListEvents As EnvDTE.TaskListEvents
     Public WithEvents FindEvents As EnvDTE.FindEvents
     Public WithEvents OutputWindowEvents As EnvDTE.OutputWindowEvents
     Public WithEvents SelectionEvents As EnvDTE.SelectionEvents
     Public WithEvents BuildEvents As EnvDTE.BuildEvents
     Public WithEvents SolutionEvents As EnvDTE.SolutionEvents
     Public WithEvents SolutionItemsEvents As EnvDTE.ProjectItemsEvents
     Public WithEvents MiscFilesEvents As EnvDTE.ProjectItemsEvents
     Public WithEvents DebuggerEvents As EnvDTE.DebuggerEvents
     Public WithEvents ProjectsEvents As EnvDTE.ProjectsEvents
     Public WithEvents TextDocumentKeyPressEvents As EnvDTE80.TextDocumentKeyPressEvents
     Public WithEvents CodeModelEvents As EnvDTE80.CodeModelEvents
     Public WithEvents DebuggerProcessEvents As EnvDTE80.DebuggerProcessEvents
     Public WithEvents DebuggerExpressionEvaluationEvents As EnvDTE80.DebuggerExpressionEvaluationEvents
    'Event Sources End
    'End of automatically generated code

    #End Region


    Private Sub BuildEvents_OnBuildDone(ByVal Scope As EnvDTE.vsBuildScope, ByVal Action As EnvDTE.vsBuildAction) Handles BuildEvents.OnBuildDone
        'Beep to notify that we finished building
        Console.Beep()
        Threading.Thread.Sleep(250)
        'Beep again just for fun
        Console.Beep()
        ' Alternatively, or in Addition to the motherboard beeps, you can 
        ' play a sound from your hard drive via your audio card like so:
        My.Computer.Audio.Play("C:\WINDOWS\Media\Windows XP Startup.wav", _
            AudioPlayMode.Background)
    End Sub


End Module

FYI: I've found that Windows 7's Console.Beep() is not a motherboard beep. Also, I quite like "C:\Windows\Media\Windows Shutdown.wav" for the audio clip when on Windows 7.