Capture Desktop Screenshot Using Windows Application

Introduction

 

In this blog we will discuss how take screenshot of desktop using Windows Application.

 

Let's see how it can be implemented:

 

Step 1: Add the following namespaces which helps for generating image:

using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;

Step 2: Add the following code to capture the screenshot and save it to drive:

Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height);
Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap as System.Drawing.Image);
graphics.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, bitmap.Size);
bitmap.Save(@"D:\MyDemo\Reports\ScreenShot.bmp", ImageFormat.Jpeg);

In preceding code: 

 

Line 1: It is fetching computer screen height and width. 

Line 2: Creating graphics object to draw/generate image.

Line 3: CopyFromScreen() method is copying background image and generate image through graphics object.

Line 4: It is saving the image to physical folder. 

 

Output:

 

 

                           Figure 1: Captured screenshot in Drive

 

Hope this helps you.