Capture jpeg from digital camera

[hugohugo37]

OK say I have a digital camera plugged into the usb port. Is there a straightforward way to get my program to grab the image? Does the term image.fromstream ring any bells? Basically I want to load a series of images into my program directly from the camera. Any ideas?

 

[JohnH]

If the memorycard on the camera operates as a smartdrive when plugged into the computer you can access it as any other disk drives. You will in these cases see the device as a new removable drive in Explorer. Otherwise the communication have to be enabled by means of a specialized driver, some USB devices expose the device as a serial port, which there exist support for in .Net 2.0, but you would need to have documentation for the serial command set.