Declaring App Capabilities
Before we can jump into writing code, there is one other thing that we must do first. We are building an app that takes pictures. That is scary. Potentially, an app could take pictures of you without your knowledge and send the pictures back to an evil hacker lurking on the Internet (or the CEO of Microsoft).
When your app does something scary, you must declare that your app will do this scary thing up front so the user can consent. You declare the capabilities of your app in your application manifest file. You can open the editor for your application manifest by double-clicking the package.appxmanifest file in the Solution Explorer window.
Click the Capabilities tab to view all of the declared capabilities of your ...
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