Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Using MediaElement as a Media Player

So far, everything you’ve read about MediaElement is great for audio and noninteractive video, such as a fancy extended splash screen, a looping animated background, a cutscene between levels of a game, or perhaps video-based storybook. However, most apps want to show interactive video in a player that enables the user to pause, stop, skip ahead, and so on.

With all of MediaElement’s methods, properties, and events already discussed, you could certainly build your own media player user interface. But doing this well is a lot of work! Fortunately, MediaElement supports an interactive media player mode. All you need to do is set its AreTransportControlsEnabled property to true, and MediaElement turns into the ...