Last week I received an invitation for a social work meeting about "Pixel art in spreadsheets". I thought: "How hard can it be". Well, it is about 25 lines of C# 9.0 hard! 😁

To capture images in my applications, I use the VideoCapture class of the EmguCV library, an OpenCV wrapper for .NET. To choose a specific camera, you need to supply an index value. But getting this number is not straightforward, and as this number can change over time, it might break your application in the future. So, what if we could use the actual name of the camera instead of the index value? In this article I will show how to achieve this.

I had the honor to be a guest at the dotnetFlix channel, hosted by Sander Molenkamp and Edwin van Wijk. I share more on the techniques, frameworks and libraries I have used and I finish with a demonstration of the finished application. As there was so much to share, it did not fit in a single episode, so we recorded three parts!