In a previous posting I discussed how to play a sound using a background process. That is great when you need the sound to continue playing even if you leave your application. But much of the time you need something far simpler: just the ability to play a sound and be done with it.
For that, all you need is to add a MediaElement to your Xaml. In the following sample we place two buttons on the MainPage; one to start playing the sound and one to stop it.
The trick is also to add an invisible MediaElement to the Xaml, which will be the control on which you’ll call such methods as Play() and Stop().
