Record screen video and audio -Windows 7

I've been trying for weeks to get this working and feel like I am going around in circles. I want to create a desktop application similar to CamStudio that can record user actions on the desktop and their voice on the microphone and save it to a video file.

I've tried a number of approaches.

• FFMPEG - I cannot get a clear video, it is blurry.


• AForge.Video.FFMPEG - gets me a slightly better video but I do not know how to add sound


• Camstudio source - I looked at this but cannot get the code to compile, C++ is not my strong suit and it seems VC++ 2010 express doesn't include MFC and 2013 upgrade causes all kinds of complications.

Please if anyone has a nice solution for this - my strength is in C# but I'm willing to try any language that will work on Windows 7.

Thanks.