Screen Capture Program Using Visual Basic 2008

 Design

Running

You will need the following: 

* 3 Buttons
* 1 Image Box
* 2 Timers
* 1 Save Dialog


Program Codes :

Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Me.Opacity = 0
        Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized
        Me.Text = "Please Wait..."
        Me.Text = "Taking Picture"
        Timer2.Enabled = True
        Timer1.Enabled = True
        Label1.Visible = False
        Me.Size = New Size(602, 400)
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
        Dim savefiledialog1 As New SaveFileDialog
        Try
            savefiledialog1.Title = "Save File"
            savefiledialog1.FileName = "Screen"
            savefiledialog1.Filter = "JPEG |*.jpg"
            If savefiledialog1.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
                PictureBox1.Image.Save(savefiledialog1.FileName, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp)
            End If
        Catch ex As Exception
            'Do Nothing
        End Try
    End Sub

    Private Sub Button3_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button3.Click
        PictureBox1.Image = Nothing
        Label1.Visible = False
        Me.Size = New Size(602, 71)
    End Sub

    Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
        Me.Opacity = 100
        Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized
        Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Normal
        Timer1.Enabled = False
        Me.Text = "Screen Capture"
    End Sub

    Private Sub Timer2_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer2.Tick
        Dim bounds As Rectangle
        Dim screenshot As System.Drawing.Bitmap
        Dim graph As Graphics
        bounds = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds
        screenshot = New System.Drawing.Bitmap(bounds.Width, bounds.Height, System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb)
        graph = Graphics.FromImage(screenshot)
        graph.CopyFromScreen(bounds.X, bounds.Y, 0, 0, bounds.Size, CopyPixelOperation.SourceCopy)
        PictureBox1.Image = screenshot
        Timer2.Enabled = False
        Label1.Visible = True
    End Sub

    Private Sub PictureBox1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles PictureBox1.Click

    End Sub

    Private Sub LinkLabel1_LinkClicked(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.LinkLabelLinkClickedEventArgs) Handles LinkLabel1.LinkClicked
        Process.Start("http://vb2008tutorialz.blogspot.com/")
    End Sub

    Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load

    End Sub
End Class

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