title: Webcams, C#, and a reliable wrapper
body: <p>I'm in dire need of a replacement for a wrapper being used in a C# application. Basically, what we need to do is attach a webcam feed to one of two picture boxes. This will be used to take still images at the push of a button, which may detach the camera feed and attach the still image to that picture box, then reattach the camera feed later. We had previously found some free code to utilize with a CaptureDevice.cs file and Pinvoke.dll to tie it into avicap32.dll. Unfortunately, this seems to have random, intermittent errors that cannot be reliably reproduced. It's just too flaky. At some random point, one of those picture boxes may go black and won't show the feed until the picture is taken, at which point the proper picture is attached to the picture box. Then, even if there's only one webcam attached, it'll keep prompting for the webcam to be selected, something it wouldn't do otherwise.</p>
  
  <p>Quite frankly, I'm surprised and dismayed that Microsoft hasn't included anything in .NET to cover webcam video feeds. I'm looking for something reliable and relatively simple to implement to replace this buggy webcam system.</p>