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
