How to identify any external webcame is connected to laptop using C# code ?

Question

how to identify tusing .Net and C# code that any external webcams is connected to laptop weather it is a USB webcams or any network webcam ?
Possible solutins i am seeking:

1. find out if any external webcame is connected to system.

Image and camera class from device manager doesn't give exact answer because sometime built in webcame also can shows in image class.

Answer 1

Hello,
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For accessing camera device, we need to add Webcam for current project manifest. In general, we use FindAllAsync method to find all VideoCapture device like following.

var allVideoDevices = await DeviceInformation.FindAllAsync(DeviceClass.VideoCapture);  

Please refer to our official code sample here that contains compete code.

Thank you.

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