Taking a Photo with the CameraCaptureTask
The camera capture task is a chooser that is used to launch the built-in Camera app. If the user completes the task by taking and confirming a photo, the Completed event is raised and the event handler receives a PhotoResult object, which exposes a stream containing the image data.
For information on working with photo image streams, see Chapter 20, “Extending the Windows Phone Picture Viewer.”
The CameraCaptureTask should be defined as a field in your class, like so:
readonly CameraCaptureTask cameraCaptureTask = new CameraCaptureTask();
Subscribe to the CameraCaptureTask.Completed event within your class constructor, as shown:
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