Using "DirectShow" with C# in the Compact Framework along with WM6

Hello all,
I am trying to develop an application using C# and .NetCF on Windows Mobile
6. I need to use the "DirectShow" api in order to preview video and take a
still shot with the built-in camera. I have tried using the built-in camera
dialog that comes with WM6 but it is limited and does not do some of the
things that I need.

Can anyone point me in the right direction or offer me some sample C# .NetCF
code that will help out?

Thanks in advance,

--
Noble D. Bell
www.noblesoftware.com

There's no CF API for DirectShow AFAIK even if there are interesting things
to learn from out there (http://directshownet.sourceforge.net/). For an
intro using native code, start 2/3 down in
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/ar...e/aa454909.aspx...

"Noble Bell" <NobleBell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4B12D0DD-6266-484D-87F9-007510DD0B8D@microsoft.com...
> Hello all,
> I am trying to develop an application using C# and .NetCF on Windows
> Mobile
> 6. I need to use the "DirectShow" api in order to preview video and take a
> still shot with the built-in camera. I have tried using the built-in
> camera
> dialog that comes with WM6 but it is limited and does not do some of the
> things that I need.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction or offer me some sample C#
> .NetCF
> code that will help out?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> Noble D. Bell
> www.noblesoftware.com
>

Thanks for the reply.

What I would REALLY like to do is use the built-in camera dialog control if
it is at all possible. I want to be able to get a full-screen preview window
that will allow me to take a picture and then return control to my app. I
don't want the camera dialog control to display ANY of its menu bars. Is
there a way to do this?

nb

I'm afraid your only option is native code, and if you check out the WM5/6
SDK sample "CameraCapture" (...Samples\PocketPC\CPP\WIN32\CameraCapture) you
get the picture ;-)

"Noble Bell" <NobleBell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:77BA1CAD-BB0B-4458-BB23-B8C2975CDEC9@microsoft.com...
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> What I would REALLY like to do is use the built-in camera dialog control
> if
> it is at all possible. I want to be able to get a full-screen preview
> window
> that will allow me to take a picture and then return control to my app. I
> don't want the camera dialog control to display ANY of its menu bars. Is
> there a way to do this?
>
> nb

Yep!

I looked at that example and I cannot seem to get it to take a picture.
Sometimes it will and sometimes it won't. Also there is no preview.

I can open this project in VS2005, right?

nb