Chapter 2. Discover and interact with devices

In this chapter, you learn how to capture media and audio using the provided standard user interface (UI) and from code. You also learn how to get data from sensors such as global positioning system (GPS), and how to discover device capabilities.

Objectives in this chapter:

Objective 2.1: Capture media with the camera and microphone

The Windows Runtime (WinRT) provides simple application programming interfaces (APIs)to interact with a device’s camera and microphone from .NET, C++, or JavaScript code. As with other WinRT APIs, you do not need references ...

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