Upon upgrading from Visual Studio 2003 Pro to 2005 Pro, I found that
sounds for 'Build Succeeded', 'Build Failed', 'Build Canceled', and
'Breakpoint Hit' do not work.  Although these sounds worked fine --
and still work fine -- in VS 2003, none of these sounds are heard when
I run VS 2005 on the same machine.  My platform is XP Pro, SP2.

Background:  As explained by Jim Griesmer in
http://blogs.msdn.com/jimgries (Debugger Tip #8), the sounds are set
in the "Microsoft Development Environment" section of the "program
events" of the Sounds tab of the "Sounds and Audio Devices Properties"
settings. In trying to diagnose the problem, it was suggested that I
check certain registry entries under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\Apps\devenv.  These all look fine.

I'll pay full price for an answer that results in VS 2005 playing the
sounds for the program events on my machine.

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Clarification of Question by climb-ga on 16 Feb 2006 06:02 PST

Well, I've found that the 'Breakpoint Hit' sound does work!  But all
the others don't.  This makes it seem even more strange.

Try out Help -> Contents.. there you'll find it. I found it too :)

Thanks for commenting, but you did not make clear exactly where to
look among the Contents, so I didn't find it there.

However, a thread "Build complete notification sounds" appeared on
MSDN Forums, Visual Studio, Visual Studio General beginning 4Jan2006,
in which Paul Harrington of MSFT said that the feature of these 3
missing sounds was deliberately removed  by Microsoft without
documenting this fact.  I am one of apparently quite a few annoyed
customers.