Capture webcam image in .Net (or indeed BlitzMax)

Has anyone dabbled with webcam image capture in c# (or VB.net or BlitzMax)? I've just taken delivery of a webcam (for my daughters) and I want to play around with it a bit. How easy is it to talk with webcams? It's a WIA device, but is WIA the solution I should be using?

On windows your best bet is to try to access it thru directshow (DirectX).

http://www.blitzbasic.com/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=1899

For C# maybe "WebCam Fast Image Capture Service using WIA" helps:

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/WebCamService.asp

Brilliant! Thanks guys.