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I need help to make my program. I have developed a form in C# that only has a textbox and a button to take a photo using the webcam and save it in the file path specified.

So I need a method to start the webcam, take a photo and save it in the file path and close the webcam immediately. No need to see what the webcam shows, just take the photo very fast and save it.

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Any idea how I can do that? All comments are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Roman R.
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Windows APIs to access a webcam are native, but you can use well known wrappers:

First, DirectShow.NET's DxSnap sample

Use DirectShow to take snapshots from the Still pin of a capture device. Note the MS encourages you to use WIA for this, but if you want to do in with DirectShow and C#, here's how.

Related on StackOverflow:

Second, Media Foundation.NET which wraps Media Foundation API

Then, other libraries, that eventually wrap mentioned above APIs (including referenced by links above)

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