/en/tags/tips/Recent content in Tips on DVLUPHugoen-USTue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000/en/blog/2015.01.20-winrt-mediacapture-tips/Tue, 20 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000/en/blog/2015.01.20-winrt-mediacapture-tips/<p>As we approach Windows 10, many of you are considering updating your SL 8.0 apps to WinRT. In fact, Larry Lieberman and team recommend you do this and have <a href="http://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2014/12/17/bring-your-windows-phone-silverlight-apps-to-windows-runtime-xaml-prepare-for-universal-app-development-in-windows-10/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared some resources</a>  to help facilitate the move. I&rsquo;ve done this for a couple apps so far and wanted to share some of my experience while migrating Silverlight <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.phone.media.capture.audiovideocapturedevice.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AudioVideoCaptureDevice</a> API to WinRT MediaCapture, because you&rsquo;ll need to rewrite your approach.</p> <p>The WinRT documentation helps with a lot of stuff, but there are holes that I had to discover for myself. To help ease the process, I&rsquo;m sharing some of the solutions that I&rsquo;ve discovered, uncovered and smash-my-head-on-the-desk about. Let&rsquo;s get started:</p>