How to receive a datastream from a device on your computer, in C#

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Published on 2010-03-17T15:36:34Z Indexed on 2010/03/17 15:41 UTC
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I plan to build a small audio-recorder app in C#. My laptop has a built in Microphone that's always active, so I want to use that as an early-stage test. I would simply start recording, save the file as a .wav or even use the LAME dll to make it into an MP3.

The problem is, I don't know how to contact that microphone. Do I use a library that can detect a device, or do I just catch a stream of bytes from the port that the device is on?

I don't have any experience with receiving data from connected devices. I suppose that I'll need to enter all the data into a byte array and then Serialize that into a WAV file, but I'm not sure.

Can I get some pointers on this subject?

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