Windows Phone Working with Camera

we will see how to take a picture using the camera and save it locally.

make a project with the name CameraAction and now follow the following steps

1) copy the following layout to MainPage.xaml


<phone:PhoneApplicationPage
    x:Class="CameraAction.MainPage"
    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
    xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"
    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"
    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"
    mc:Ignorable="d" d:DesignWidth="480" d:DesignHeight="768"
    FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"
    FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"
    Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"
    SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"
    shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

    <!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->
    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">
        <Grid.RowDefinitions>
            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
        </Grid.RowDefinitions>

        <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->
        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="12,17,0,28">
            <TextBlock x:Name="ApplicationTitle" Text="MY APPLICATION" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}"/>
            <TextBlock x:Name="PageTitle" Text="page name" Margin="9,-7,0,0" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextTitle1Style}"/>
        </StackPanel>

        <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->
        <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">
            <Button Content="Invoke Camera" Height="72" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="36,30,0,0"
Name="btnCamera" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="389" Click="btnCamera_Click" />
            <Image Height="377" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="36,187,0,0" Name="imgCaptured"
Stretch="Fill" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="389" />
            <TextBlock Height="39" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="36,129,0,0" Name="txtResult" Text=""
VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="389" />
        </Grid>
    </Grid>

    <!--Sample code showing usage of ApplicationBar-->
    <!--<phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>
        <shell:ApplicationBar IsVisible="True" IsMenuEnabled="True">
            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button1.png" Text="Button 1"/>
            <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton IconUri="/Images/appbar_button2.png" Text="Button 2"/>
            <shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>
                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 1"/>
                <shell:ApplicationBarMenuItem Text="MenuItem 2"/>
            </shell:ApplicationBar.MenuItems>
        </shell:ApplicationBar>
    </phone:PhoneApplicationPage.ApplicationBar>-->

</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

2) MainPage.xaml.cs code is given below


using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Controls;
using System.Windows.Documents;
using System.Windows.Input;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Animation;
using System.Windows.Shapes;
using Microsoft.Phone.Controls;
using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;
using Microsoft.Phone;

namespace CameraAction
{
    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage
    {
        private CameraCaptureTask ccTask;
        // Constructor
        public MainPage()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            ccTask = new CameraCaptureTask();
            ccTask.Completed += ccTaskCompleted;
        }
        private void btnCamera_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
        {
            ccTask.Show();
        }
        private void ccTaskCompleted(object sender, PhotoResult pr)
        {
            byte[] imgLocal;
            if (pr.ChosenPhoto != null)
            {
                imgLocal = new byte[(int)pr.ChosenPhoto.Length];
                pr.ChosenPhoto.Read(imgLocal, 0, imgLocal.Length);
                pr.ChosenPhoto.Seek(0, System.IO.SeekOrigin.Begin);
                var bitmapImage = PictureDecoder.DecodeJpeg(pr.ChosenPhoto);
                this.imgCaptured.Source = bitmapImage;
            }
        }
    }
}

2) after invoking action through the button