accessing a webcam on a vb.net form

[jmp85uk]

I want to be able to access my (built-in) webcam so that i can display either a snapshot or video stream within the form. the situation being that i am creating a single player card game and would like the user to have his/her picture actually sat at the table.

any ideas...i have searched around and found lots of stuff for web pages but not form applications.

cheers

 

[Eriedor]

From my experience you can access a webcam through windows api's but it is messy.

Another option is to download OpenCV .Net. Using that you can display a webcam video feed in a few lines of simple code.