Capture the form on the screen during runtime

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With .NET 2.0, screen capturing becomes much more flexible and easier. The following code sample will capture the runtime forms image on to bitmap file. Put this code in the click event of the form so that you can capture the form in any state.

								
System.Drawing.Bitmap bmp = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(this.Width, this.Height);
this.DrawToBitmap(bmp, this.ClientRectangle);
bmp.Save("c:\\formimage.bmp");

internal void CaptureScreen() { Graphics g1 = CreateGraphics(); Image MyImage = new Bitmap(ClientRectangle.Width, ClientRectangle.Height, g1); Graphics g2 = Graphics.FromImage(MyImage); IntPtr dc1 = g1.GetHdc(); IntPtr dc2 = g2.GetHdc(); BitBlt(dc2, 0, 0, ClientRectangle.Width, ClientRectangle.Height, dc1, 0, 0, 13369376); g1.ReleaseHdc(dc1); g2.ReleaseHdc(dc2); MyImage.Save(@"Captured.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg); } [System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImportAttribute( "gdi32.dll")] private static extern bool BitBlt( IntPtr hdcDest, int nXDest int nYDest int nWidth int nHeight IntPtr hdcSrc int nXSrc int nYSrc Int32 dwRop );

Capture the form on the screen during runtime

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