I got a webcam for doing conferencing at work and wanted to do some development with it.  I had the problem of the sample source code I would try out didn't work or worked poorly.

I found Mark Schmidt's awesome vista gadget using a webcam and asked for the source.  Mark cleaned it up and graciously posted it for everyone to check out.  His example uses DirectShow to interface with the camera instead of WIA.

Now I just need remember what I was going to use this for, but that is a different problem.