C# Surface Pro 4 Camera

Question

I am developing a WPF program in visual studio 2013. This program will be installed on MS Surface Pro 4's , one part of the application required to take an snap photo from the front camera.

I would like to place a button in my WPF program that will open the surface Pro 4 camera and take a picture. Does any one know how to accomplish this?
or if there are an DLL you can use for the camera.

Possible duplicate of [Open Windows 8.1 "Camera app" with VBA](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28036527/open-windows-8-1-camera-app-with-vba) — Alessandro Da Rugna, Jan 11 '17 at 11:37
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2881858/how-to-get-web-cam-images-in-c — rob2universe, Jan 11 '17 at 14:08
Possible duplicate of [How to get web cam images in C#?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2881858/how-to-get-web-cam-images-in-c) — rob2universe, Jan 11 '17 at 14:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 11 '17 at 11:49

To use the native Windows camera "app" to capture an image you can make use of Windows.Media.Capture.CameraCaptureUI:

CameraCaptureUI captureUI = new CameraCaptureUI();
captureUI.PhotoSettings.Format = CameraCaptureUIPhotoFormat.Jpeg;
captureUI.PhotoSettings.CroppedSizeInPixels = new Size(200, 200); 

StorageFile photo = await captureUI.CaptureFileAsync(CameraCaptureUIMode.Photo);

This will save the image to a location within your app's local storage where can you process as required.

See the following Microsoft article for more details: Capture photos and video with Windows built-in camera UI

The question is about WPF, not UWP. – Clemens Jan 11 '17 at 12:57 — Clemens, Jan 11 '17 at 12:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '17 at 12:20

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I solved the problem by using Emgu CV and WPF: http://www.emgu.com/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

answered Jan 27 '17 at 12:20

forrestrunner

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