Play midi file directly from resource

[DGL-luke]

there should be interfaces to hand your midi data over to the sound card. maybe even via the Windows API.
You might want to search the MS Developer Network library: MIDI playback

EDIT: the very first result seems to provide what you want:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...idioutopen.asp

You can pick the interesting "midi..." functions from the TOC on the left of the page