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MediaElement Control in Windows 7 Phone Development

Anonymous User 10970 13-Apr-2012

When beginning a media-based application for Windows Phone, perhaps the easiest thing to do is to use the Silverlight MediaElement control. With just a few lines of code, you can easily play or stream video in your Windows Phone Application. This article is going to explain how to use MediaElement control in Windows 7 Phone development.

Getting started:

1.       Open Visual Studio

2.       Create new Silverlight Windows 7 Phone Development Project

3.       Enter your project Name

4.       Click on button ‘Ok’

MediaElement Control in Windows 7 Phone Development

Now drag and drop MediaElement control form toolbox into MainPage.xaml design page; after doing this set media path by selecting Source property of MediaElement control.

MediaElement Control in Windows 7 Phone Development

Now write down the following code to build this layout;

Code of ‘MainPage.xaml’:

<!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">

        <Grid.RowDefinitions>

            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>

            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>

        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

 

        <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->

        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">

            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="My Application" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>

            <TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="MediaElement Demo" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>

        </StackPanel>

 

        <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->

        <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">

            <MediaElement Height="433" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="12,0,0,140" Name="mdElementDemo" VerticalAlignment="Bottom" Width="438" />

        </Grid>

    </Grid>

Code of ‘MainPage.xaml.cs’:

using System;

using System.Windows;

using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;

using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

 

namespace MediaElementDemo

{

    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

    {

        // Constructor

        public MainPage()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

 

            this.Loaded+=new RoutedEventHandler(MainPage_Loaded);

        }

 

        void MainPage_Loaded(objectsender, RoutedEventArgse)

        {

            MediaPlayerLauncher launcher=new MediaPlayerLauncher();

 

            launcher.Media=new Uri("http://www.robtowns.com/music/blind_willie.mp3", UriKind.RelativeOrAbsolute);

            launcher.Controls= MediaPlaybackControls.All;

            launcher.Show();

        }

 

      

    }

}


 

Now execute your program then following output window will be appearing.

MediaElement Control in Windows 7 Phone Development

MediaElement Control in Windows 7 Phone Development

This is the complete description about Media Control in Windows Phone 7. I hope you will be enjoying it. Thanks for reading this article.



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