Set a Welcome Greet on Every Windows Startup Using C#

Introduction

Hello friends. Today we will build an application that uses the Speach API (SAPI) that says a welcome greet message on every Windows startup using C#. In other words it lets you set a message as per your choice and your Windows Narrator will speak whenever you start your Windows.

Background

In this application we are just using a VBScript trick. We will create a file having the extension .vbs that contains the following code:

Dim speaks, speech
speaks="<your message>"
Set speech=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
speech.Speak speaks

And by saving it to the Startup folder it is run whenever Windows is started and speaks the text that you typed.

Procedures

Step 1: First of all create a new Windows Forms application in Visual Studio and name it as you choose (I named it WelcomeGreet). Now a new Windows Form will be generated.

Add a TextBox control and a Button Control to your project.

(Name them as you want or leave it as it is).

Your form will look like this:

Step 2: Now go to "Solution Explorer" and Navigate to the "References".

Right-click on "References". There you will get two options, click on "Add References". A window will pop up; navigate to the ".Net" tab and search for the "System.Io.Log" library and add it to your project.

Step 3: Now double-click on the Button Control you added to your Windows Form. The IDE will generate a Click event for you. First of all add the using directive in your project called "using System.Io" because we will do some file read and write operations.

Step 4: Now go to the Button Event (startButton) and type the following code:

/*Getting Path of "Startup" which is a special folder available in every Windows Environment

like : C:\Users\Neo\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup (in my PC)

In Startup drive it is Creating a File name "Welcome.vbs"*/

            string pathName = System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup) + "\\Welcome.vbs";

            //If No any Message is set in TextBox

            if (myMessage.Text == "")

            {

                MessageBox.Show("Please Enter Your Message First", "Warning", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Warning);

            }

            //If any Message is Set

            else

            {

                try

                {

                    //Storing our Welcome Message from //TextBox into a string variable 'meassage'

                    string message = myMessage.Text;

                    //Setting up a reference to StreamWriter //class name 'sw' which is used to write the IO files

                    //and in its Constructor we are passing //the path where the file is to be saved

                    StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(pathName);

                    //Writting into the Stream

                    sw.WriteLine("Dim speaks, speech");

                    sw.Write("speaks=\"");

                    sw.WriteLine(message + "\"");

                    sw.WriteLine("Set speech=CreateObject(\"sapi.spvoice\")");

                    sw.WriteLine("speech.Speak speaks");

                    //Closing the Stream

                    sw.Close();

                    MessageBox.Show("You have Successfully Updated Your Welcome Greet Message\nEnjoy on Every Startup", "Success", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Information);

                }

                    //Handling the Exception

                catch (Exception ex)

                {

                    MessageBox.Show("Please Enter The Field Correctly","Error",MessageBoxButtons.OKCancel,MessageBoxIcon.Error);

                        myMessage.Text="";

                }

            } 

Step 5: Now go to the Button Event (stopButton) and type the following code:

string pathName=System.Environment.GetFolderPath(System.Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup) + "\\Welcome.vbs";

try

{

    StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(pathName);

    //Flush out the Stream which we //created that is we are now deleting what we had //written in the stream

    sw.Flush();

    sw.Close();

    MessageBox.Show("Message Greet Sussessfully Removed!!","Succesfull",MessageBoxButtons.OK,MessageBoxIcon.Information);

    //Closing the Application

    this.Close();

}

catch(Exception ex)

{

    MessageBox.Show("You haven't yet set Your Welcome Greet!!","Error", MessageBoxButtons.OK, MessageBoxIcon.Error);

}  

Step 6: That's all, now after setting up the message, whenever you start your Windows you will be welcomed by your PC with a welcome message. You can download the source code that is in the article.