Question

I am building a win8 app which requires to launch the webcam for taking photos only.

I have seen the sample codes given in MSDN for Camera captures but I only want is onclick of CAPTURE Button the webcam should launched, take a pic and save it.

While in the sample codes they made the user to select option from the list box and on selectionchanged, the required function has been called. My problem is that I don’t required any Listbox. Also they have used a class called SuspensionManager which I didn’t understand. I am really confused.

Can somebody show me a way out?

Answer 1

Try this:

using Windows.Media.Capture;

var ui = new CameraCaptureUI();
ui.PhotoSettings.CroppedAspectRatio = new Size(4, 3);
var file = await ui.CaptureFileAsync(CameraCaptureUIMode.Photo);

if (file != null) 
{
   var bitmap = new BitmapImage();
   bitmap.SetSource(await file.OpenAsync(FileAccessMode.Read));
   Photo.Source = bitmap;
}

Took from here