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title: "How to: Trigger Media Playback with a User Event"
ms.date: "03/30/2017"
helpviewer_keywords: 
  - "synchronizing media playback with events [WPF]"
  - "playback of media [WPF], synchronizing with events"
  - "media [WPF], synchronizing playback with events"
  - "multimedia [WPF], synchronizing media playback with events"
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---
# How to: Trigger Media Playback with a User Event
This example shows how to synchronize media playback with an event.  
  
## Example  
 The following example uses the <xref:System.Windows.Controls.MediaElement> control and the <xref:System.Windows.Media.MediaTimeline> class to play a sound that occurs when the user clicks a <xref:System.Windows.Controls.Button>.  
  
 [!code-xaml[MediaGallery_snippet#SoundFromUserEventExampleWholePage](~/samples/snippets/csharp/VS_Snippets_Wpf/MediaGallery_snippet/CSharp/SoundFromUserEventExample.xaml#soundfromusereventexamplewholepage)]  
  
## See also

- <xref:System.Windows.Controls.MediaElement>
- <xref:System.Windows.Media.MediaTimeline>
- <xref:System.Windows.EventTrigger.RoutedEvent%2A>
- <xref:System.Windows.Media.Animation.Storyboard>
- [How-to Topics](audio-and-video-how-to-topics.md)
- [Graphics and Multimedia](index.md)