I found this feature while looking inside Graphics class and since it was so simple to use, I decided to post it here.

As I said, it doesn't require more than 15 lines of code - this function: Graphics.CopyFromScreen does all the 'hard work' so we only need to put this into a Bitmap and save/display it.

To the code!

There are 3 steps that you need to follow:

• create a Bitmap that's exactly the screen's size
• using that Bitmap, create a Graphics object (Graphics.FromImage)
• use CopyFromScreen() and save the Bitmap

The code looks like this:

1. 1. private void takeScreenShot()
   2. {
   3. Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height);
   4. using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp))
   5. {
   6. g.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Size);
   7. bmp.Save("screenshot.png"); // saves the image
   8. }
   9. }