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Is it possible to use Windows phone 7's camera in Silverlight in ANY way?

+6  A: 

According to this post at the MSDN community forum you cannot access the camera either in Silverlight or XNA. You can ask the user to take a picture and then access that, but you cannot access the camera directly.

Chris Thompson
+5  A: 

The only way to access the camera is CameraCaptureTask. (Note: Unfortunately I don't believe it works in the current Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP.)

Skeets
+1  A: 

Hi Ivan,

There's a simple code demonstration here showing your to put the camera API to use for Windows Phone 7 apps.

Issues noted from the CTP are since resolved.

How to: Use Choosers for Windows Phone

Mick N
Thank you for sharing the information ;)
Ivan