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Home > C# Multimedia and GDI+ > GDI+
ScreenGrabber.NET Utility
Posted by Wiktor Zychla on Saturday, January 28, 2006 (EST)

ScreenGrabber.NET is a fully functional screen grabbing utility written entirely in C# with a little usage of P/Invoke.

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Technology: GDI+.

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ScreenGrabber.NET is a fully functional screen grabbing utility written entirely in C# with a little usage of P/Invoke.

The application demostrates some useful Windows programming techniques:

  • registering and unregistering system-wide HotKeys with
    • RegisterHotKey
    • UnregisterHotKey
  • creating full screen transparent windows with .NET
  • selecting top-level and child-level windows with mouse with
    • WindowFromPoint
    • ChildWindowFromPoint
  • grabbing images of top-level and child-level windows with BitBlt
  • some basic image operations like saving or cropping

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