Capture the screen area of one control in VB.NET

[SoftwareEng]

Hi guys,

I need to capture the area on the form of one of my controls. For example, I have a grid or a button, and I need to capture its picture without faking the Alt+PrtScr keystroke. This needs to happen at runtime.

Any ideas? Thanks!

 

[Ken g6]

I have done this before, capturing a screenshot of an entire window, and finding the location of a control in that window. It looks like I actually called VBScript, and did window.CaptureBitmap [filename].

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/...4944-ba32-3b646db29ce9

 

[SoftwareEng]

Thanks Ken g6 and PhatoseAlpha!

I found a native way to do it in .NET 2.0 without BitBlt and other prehistoric API functions 🙂

CopyFromScreen:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-u...cs.copyfromscreen.aspx

 

[PhatoseAlpha]

Cool. Much simpler then doing the copying yourself.