QR code scanning on Windows Phone 7.5 using ZXlib
July 22nd 2011One of the big new features of Windows Phone 7.5 (code named Mango) is direct camera access. Having access to the camera stream enables several new scenarios, such as in-app QR and barcode scanning, augmented reality applications or custom looking photo camera UI. There are some good resources on how to use the new APIs to access the camera in Mango, but I haven’t found any complete examples of how to implement a QR code scanner, which is what I am going to do in this blog post.
The following blog post is an article originally published in the most current issue
of "The Developer", a magazine distributed to Norwegian developers.
The article discusses the exciting possibility to use C# and .NET across the
three major smart phone platforms WP7, iOS and Android. Since the magazine is only
distributed in Norway I decided to post it on my blog as well.
You can either read it here, or