Camera Capture Task in windows phone 8

Question

I am working on windows phone application in which i need to store a captured image from the camera in isolated storage without saving it in the camera roll. I am able to store the captured image in the isolated storage but a copy of the captured image in also stored in the camera roll. Is there any way i can keep the image within the isolated storage rather than the camera roll.

Thanks

Answer 1

If you want to save to ONLY isolated storage, you cannot use the CameraCaptureTask. In WP8, it will transparently save a copy of the image to the camera roll, regardless of what you do.

That said, there is a solution. You'll need to use the camera APIs to basically create and use your own CameraCaptureTask. I'm not going to go into huge depth, but this should get you started.

First thing you need to do is follow this tutorial to create the view and basic application. They use the cam_CaptureImageAvailable method to store the image to the camera roll. You'll want to modify that to store it in isolated storage like so:

using (e.ImageStream)
{
   using(IsolatedStorageFile storageFile = IsolatedStorageFile.GetuserStoreForApplication())
   {
      if( !sotrageFile.DirectoryExists(<imageDirectory>)
      {
         storageFile.CreateDirectory(<imageDirectory>);
      }

      using( IsolatedStorageFileStream targetStream = storageFile.OpenFile( <filename+path>, FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
      {
         byte[] readBuffer = new byte[4096];
         int bytesRead;
         while( (bytesRead = e.ImageStream.Read( readBuffer, 0, readBuffer.Length)) > 0)
         {
            targetStream.Write(readBuffer, 0, bytesRead);
         }
      }
   }
}

From this point, you have a functional camera application that stores only to isolated storage. You may want to spice it up with color effects or something, but it's not necessary.