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I want to capture image and display into picture box by using any webcamera. I am using visual studio 2008 and language vb.

If Any solution is available here, I can paid charges of it. please give solution.

Ravi - 9511723057

What I have tried:

Public Class Form1
    Const WM_CAP As Short = &H400S
    Const WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT As Integer = WM_CAP + 10
    Const WM_CAP_DRIVER_DISCONNECT As Integer = WM_CAP + 11
    Const WM_CAP_EDIT_COPY As Integer = WM_CAP + 30
    Const WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEW As Integer = WM_CAP + 50
    Const WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEWRATE As Integer = WM_CAP + 52
    Const WM_CAP_SET_SCALE As Integer = WM_CAP + 53
    Const WS_CHILD As Integer = &H40000000
    Const WS_VISIBLE As Integer = &H10000000
    Const SWP_NOMOVE As Short = &H25
    Const SWP_NOSIZE As Short = &H1
    Const SWP_NOZORDER As Short = &H4S
    Const HWND_BOTTOM As Short = 1
    Dim iDevice As Integer = 0
    Dim hHwnd As Integer
    Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" (ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal wMsg As Integer, ByVal wParam As Integer, ByVal iParam As Object) As Integer
    Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" Alias "SetWindowPos" (ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Integer, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal cx As Integer, ByVal cy As Integer, ByVal wFlags As Integer) As Integer
    Declare Function DestroyWindow Lib "user32" (ByVal hndw As Integer) As Boolean
    Declare Function capCreateCaptureWindowA Lib "avicap32.dll" (ByVal lpszWindowName As String, ByVal dwStyle As Integer, ByVal x As Integer, ByVal y As Integer, ByVal nWidth As Integer, ByVal nHeight As Short, ByVal hWndParent As Integer, ByVal nID As Integer) As Integer
    Declare Function capGetDriverDescriptionA Lib "avicap32.dll" (ByVal wDriver As Short, ByVal lpszName As String, ByVal cbName As Integer, ByVal lpszVer As String, ByVal cbVer As Integer) As Boolean


    Private Sub LoadDeviceList()
        Dim strName As String = Space(100)
        Dim strVer As String = Space(100)
        Dim bReturn As Boolean
        Dim x As Integer = 0
        Do
            bReturn = capGetDriverDescriptionA(x, strName, 100, strVer, 100)
            If bReturn Then lstDevices.Items.Add(strName.Trim)
            x += 1
        Loop Until bReturn = False
    End Sub

    Private Sub OpenPreviewWindow()
        Dim iHeight As Integer = picImage.Height
        Dim iWidth As Integer = picImage.Width
        hHwnd = capCreateCaptureWindowA(iDevice, WS_VISIBLE Or WS_CHILD, 0, 0, 640, 480, picImage.Handle.ToInt32, 0)
        If SendMessage(hHwnd, WM_CAP_DRIVER_CONNECT, iDevice, 0) Then
            SendMessage(hHwnd, WM_CAP_SET_SCALE, True, 0)
            SendMessage(hHwnd, WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEWRATE, 66, 0)
            SendMessage(hHwnd, WM_CAP_SET_PREVIEW, True, 0)
            SetWindowPos(hHwnd, HWND_BOTTOM, 0, 0, picImage.Width, picImage.Height, SWP_NOMOVE Or SWP_NOZORDER)
            btnStop.Enabled = True
            btnSave.Enabled = True
            btnStart.Enabled = False
        Else
            DestroyWindow(hHwnd)
            btnSave.Enabled = False
        End If

    End Sub


    Private Sub btnSave_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnSave.Click
        Dim data As IDataObject
        Dim bmap As Image
        SendMessage(hHwnd, WM_CAP_EDIT_COPY, 0, 0)
        data = Clipboard.GetDataObject()
        If data.GetDataPresent(GetType(System.Drawing.Bitmap)) Then
            bmap = CType(data.GetData(GetType(System.Drawing.Bitmap)), Image)
            picImage.Image = bmap
            ClosePreviewWindow()
            btnSave.Enabled = False
            btnStop.Enabled = False
            btnStart.Enabled = True
            If sfdImage.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
                bmap.Save(sfdImage.FileName, Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp)
            End If

        End If
    End Sub

    Private Sub ClosePreviewWindow()
        SendMessage(hHwnd, WM_CAP_DRIVER_DISCONNECT, iDevice, 0)
        DestroyWindow(hHwnd)
    End Sub

    Private Sub btnStart_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnStart.Click
        OpenPreviewWindow()
        btnStart.Enabled = False
        btnStop.Enabled = True

    End Sub

    Private Sub btnStop_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnStop.Click
        ClosePreviewWindow()
        btnStart.Enabled = True
        btnStop.Enabled = False

    End Sub

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        LoadDeviceList()
    End Sub
End Class
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Updated 10-Jul-21 15:34pm

1 solution

Consider looking at this example: Fabrika LAB: WebCam Video[^], it uses the AForge.NET framework that provides some features to access webcams. I used this library for capturing and processing feeds from security cameras.
 
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Member 12604208 12-Oct-17 9:28am    
Mr. Dejan Mauer, Thanks for giving solution about accessing web camera. But it is not working in visual studion 2008. pl give solution and also give code to capture image and display into picture box. Thanks !
Steve44 12-Oct-17 15:57pm    
Unfortunately I have not installed VS2008. Maybe you can use the free VS2017 Community Edition?

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