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CaptureElement

CaptureElement is basically the capture equivalent of MediaElement. MediaElement contains all the plumbing necessary for playback, and the same could be said about CaptureElement for capture. It is a UIElement with only two properties (excluding ones inherited from its FrameworkElement base class): Source and Stretch. Like MediaElement, Stretch is Uniform by default. Unlike MediaElement, but like every other element with a Stretch property, its content does not get centered when you choose UniformToFill.

CaptureElement’s Source property is of type MediaCapture, a Windows Runtime class that does all the hard work. It enables you to capture videos, photos, as well as two options lacking from CameraCaptureUI: video-only recordings ...