Displaying media element across multiple pages

Question

Using VS2013 preview - I am trying to play audio across multiple pages in my xaml/c# app. I have successfully accomplished the audio playback by placing the media element in the standardstyles.xaml page and using the visualtreehelper to get access to my media element on different code behind pages.

The problem that I am having is that I would like to display the media element, and respective transport controls and have not found a way to add the media element in the code behind page to the display page. Using the code behind page, how can I display the media element on the corresponding xaml page?

Answer 1

I think you should have a single page which brings in different user controls in order to change the page's content.  Leave a single media element in place, just change the surrounding elements.

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Matt Small - Microsoft Escalation Engineer - Forum Moderator
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Answer 2

The way Matt pointed out is a goog approach. The downside is that you also have to implement your custom back navigation logic. If you create a CustomControl based on FrameControl and add the mediaelement to the controltemplate of that CustomControl you still have all the Navigation and only one media element. You only have to mack sure your application is creating a instance of your CustomControl instead of frame at startup.

In our apps that was the way we tooked to solve a similar problem

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lh