Play sine wave with soundcard on CVI

Does anybody know how to generate sine waves with the soundcard ?
Thank you for your help.

Diver,
The way to go here is the Windows SDK. First make sure that you have the Windows SDK installer; go to the help menu and you should be able to select Windows SDK . If you don't have that option then you need to run the installer again and change the installation to include the Windows SDK.
Once you have this running there are a couple of ways you can do this:
Play a WAV file: this is the easy and fast way of doing it; record or generate the WAV file with any simple sound editor and use the function PlaySound() from the Windows SDK to play strait from the file (you can find more info about the function in the Windows SKD help file).
Play generated data using lower level soundcard functions: this is not as easy, but gives
you the most flexibility; you basically open a session with the sound card and write data to it. I'm attaching a very basic example that can get you started.
Use Media Player to play a file: you can use ActiveX to embed Media Player in your UI and use it's capabilities to play wav files. CVI has a good shipping example about this, you can find it here.
You can request this feature for future version of CVI; go to http://www.ni.com/contact and select product feedback to submit your request.
In the mean time I hope this helps you get started.
Regards,
Juan Carlos
N.I.
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WaveOut1.c ‏2 KB

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