Tips and tricks when using PhotoCamera in WP 7.5 Mango

Our member Martin Suchan has recently been developing an application for automatic photo shooting in Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. He shared with us an article describing the most interesting challenges one will most likely encounter when creating apps for WP7 and how to solve them successfully.

Martin Suchan is Windows Phone developer and member of the Creating Apps community. He took part in the Lumia 800 competition, sending in his findings and tips for using PhotoCamera in WP7 Mango. And he was one of the two lucky winners!

We have published the article in our Wiki, accessible to all registered Creating Apps members. This is what you will find:

• 1 PhotoCamera - the basics
• 2 How to identify available cameras
• 3 How to properly initialize and dispose PhotoCamera objects
• 4 How to find available resolutions for all available camera
• 5 How to change target resolution of taken pictures
• 6 How to use the the image stream as a VideoBrush
• 7 How to save pictures taken by PhotoCamera into MediaLibrary and how to display them as an Image
• 8 How to take pictures using PhotoCamera under lockscreen

See also:
These are the winners of our Nokia Lumia 800 give-away
Nokia Lumia 800 review: Nokia meets Windows Phone