Take snapshot from built in webcam

Question

I'm thinking of trying to add a function in my app that can contact the onboard webcam and take a snapshot to a picturebox, I haven't really done anything with webcams before and there are a lot of confusing tutorials around that look very complex, with wrappers and importing classes and so on.

Is it a major task to contact webcams? or is there a basic namespace class or code that can be used on a windows forms app?