How to snap a picture with a webcam to a picturebox and save it to sql server db using c# winform

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Hi friend i am currently designing a project on employee management system in which there is a picturebox and a upload button. If the user clicks on upload the file is open and the user select the desired picture from the file and display in the picturebox which is then saved to the db. Now what i want is intead of uploaded a picture from the user machine i want the user to be able to snap a picture with a webcam and display in the picturebox and also save it to the db.thanks for your help in advance

Posted 30-Oct-12 14:36pm

Ese Ochuko

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 30-Oct-12 21:41pm

Can you understand that PictureBox is totally irrelevant? You need a picture, not the control PictureBox. This is really a totally redundant control, only used for simplicity. Now, what's the problem? What did you try so far?
--SA

Ese Ochuko 31-Oct-12 4:32am

I was using a dll file which i downloaded from the net, webcamcapture.
This is the code i am using to start my webcam

this.WebCamCapture.TimeToCapture_milliseconds = 1;
this.webcamCapture.Start(0);
this.WebCamCapture.Capture= true;

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