Announcing the WebCam Vista Sidebar Gadget

I wanted some more proof that my .NET Sidebar Gadget Creator works so I started a new .NET based UserControl from scratch. Guess what, it does work. After I wrote the code for the WebCamControl in .NET, I fired up the .NET Sidebar Gadget Creator, went through the wizard to create the gadget files and it worked the 1st time in the Sidebar. It literally took me about 1 minute to get it up and running (not counting the code for the actual WebCam stuff).

Here's a screenshot:

Here's a link to download the gadget:

 Please note that this has only been tested locally on my machine using a LifeCam VX-6000. Your webcam may or may not work. If it does, let me know. If it doesn't...I guess let me know that too :-)

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• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
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• Anonymous
  August 14, 2007
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• Anonymous
  August 15, 2007
  Hey Mark. Not working for me and my HP dv2000 Laptop the error message : System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException(0x80070057) not valid arguments on DirectShowLib.DsError.ThrowExceptionForHR(int 32 hr) on WebCamControl.WebCamControl.CaptureVideo() Regards from Bogota - Colombia

• Anonymous
  August 16, 2007
  jkpelaez: One thing I noticed is that if you have another application using the camera, it won't work. DirectShow only seems to like it when 1 application uses it and will return errors when another application (e.g. the gadget) tries to stream the camera data. Is that the case with you possible?

• Anonymous
  August 16, 2007
  Mark, No other application looked like usign my web cam at that moment, however I reset my computer, try again and now is working like a charm. Could you send me or publish the code for the web cam stuff?, Thanks in advance. Regards from Bogota - Colombia

• Anonymous
  August 16, 2007
  works nicely with logitech quickcam epress. Thanks!!

• Anonymous
  August 18, 2007
  I have no idea what I'm doing -- but seems to work w/ my ancient Intel USB Video Camera III.

• Anonymous
  August 24, 2007
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  August 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  August 28, 2007
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• Anonymous
  August 30, 2007
  per gli amanti deella sidebar e dei relativi gadgets vi giro un post di Mark dove segnala il rilascio

• Anonymous
  September 26, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 27, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 07, 2007
  the thing works on my new hp laptop hp dv 9000 built in web cam.  the laptop has dual turion dl-64, (2.3 ghz x2=4.6), 3 gigs of ram, 240 gb hd, man its sweet

• Anonymous
  October 10, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 20, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 02, 2007
  Its about time some one's has made one but it does not work and i have the LifeCam VX-6000 and tryed rebooting my PC but have had no luck. If you could tell me how to activate it it would be most kind of you. Thank you?

• Anonymous
  November 06, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 09, 2007
  Where did the link to download this go?

• Anonymous
  November 10, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 23, 2007
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• Anonymous
  November 23, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 03, 2007
  I'm having a problem about this web cam on HP Pavillion 9000 laptop, and i need to know how to acitivate it, everytime when i want to use it during Msn Messenger and i wanted to talk to my friends, they can't see me, please help me out!

• Anonymous
  December 06, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 25, 2007
  Hi Mark. Works perfectly on my dv6500. Great Work!

• Anonymous
  January 03, 2008
  It doesn't want to work with my HP Pavilion dv9000 (64-bit Vista)

• Anonymous
  January 06, 2008
  works like a charm with my logitech deluxe for notebook. keep up the good work ;)

• Anonymous
  January 19, 2008
  Hi i love this it works with mine

• Anonymous
  January 27, 2008
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• Anonymous
  February 12, 2008
  Works well with my Dell Built-In camera. Good work Mark!

• Anonymous
  March 21, 2008
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• Anonymous
  April 25, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 01, 2008
  Works fine with an EyeToy camera :)

• Anonymous
  May 07, 2008
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• Anonymous
  May 21, 2008
  Thanks Working with VideoCAM GE111 with driver 2.0

• Anonymous
  June 01, 2008
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• Anonymous
  June 23, 2008
  You´re a genious, thank you !!!

• Anonymous
  August 04, 2008
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• Anonymous
  August 10, 2008
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• Anonymous
  September 01, 2008
  it works perfectly with my dv6000 very nice

• Anonymous
  September 03, 2008
  Works great with my super-old USB 3Com HomeConnect camera. Good job!

• Anonymous
  October 14, 2008
  Hey it works very nice. I have it pointing at my doorway of my cube so no one can sneak up on me. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  November 06, 2008
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• Anonymous
  November 07, 2008
  Works on my MacBook Pro running Vista. Is there supposed to be a 'Settings' option ? All I could do is turn it off, didn't seem to want to undock, and no right click menu. Also is there a way to take a snapshot & save it ?

• Anonymous
  December 19, 2008
  It seems to work fine on my HP Pavilion dv6120ca notebook. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  January 31, 2009
  Works on my Dell Inspiron 1318 Notebook with Vista Home Prem SP1

• Anonymous
  February 25, 2009
  hey it doesnt work with my dell xps m1330

• Anonymous
  September 11, 2009
  Doesn't work with the cam in my Gateway LT3103u

• Anonymous
  June 08, 2011
  Sounds like a nice gadget. Didn't work on my VX 1000 however. Urecoverable error of some sort. I have a screen shot of the error if you want it. gfrlaser@yahoo.com

• Anonymous
  July 18, 2011
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• Anonymous
  November 27, 2011
  It is work on my laptop Acer TravelMate 6291! It's cool!

• Anonymous
  December 14, 2011
  It also works on my other newer model Acer Aspire 8930G-944G64BN too. s7.directupload.net/.../xtahp6iu.jpg

• Anonymous
  March 29, 2012
  Any where to get this now that the gadget gallery is retired by microsoft?

• Anonymous
  June 04, 2012
  Mark Schmidt's WebCam_1.0.gadget http://rghost.ru/38481694

• Anonymous
  June 15, 2012
  file has been deleted...  Try again please!

• Anonymous
  December 08, 2012
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