Screen Capture in .NET Compact Framework

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Five years ago, if you wanted to do a screen capture on Windows Mobile devices with .NET Compact Framework, you would look at Screen Capture, I did not count the lines, but looked quiet long.  Five years later, I wanted to do the same thing, and my code looked like this:

public static Bitmap ScreenCapture(IntPtr hWnd, Rectangle rect)
{
    IntPtr hBitmap; 
    IntPtr hDC = CoreDll.GetDC(hWnd); 
    IntPtr hMemDC = CoreDll.CreateCompatibleDC(hDC);

    hBitmap = CoreDll.CreateCompatibleBitmap(hDC, rect.Width, rect.Height);

    if (hBitmap != IntPtr.Zero)
    {
        IntPtr hOld = (IntPtr)CoreDll.SelectObject(hMemDC, hBitmap);
        CoreDll.BitBlt(hMemDC, 0, 0, rect.Width, rect.Height, hDC, 0, 0, CoreDll.SRCCOPY);

        CoreDll.SelectObject(hMemDC, hOld);

        CoreDll.DeleteDC(hMemDC);
        CoreDll.ReleaseDC(hWnd, hDC);
        Bitmap bmp = System.Drawing.Image.FromHbitmap(hBitmap);
        CoreDll.DeleteObject(hBitmap);


        return bmp;
    }

    return null;
}

 

The CoreDll imports:

[DllImport("Coredll.dll", EntryPoint = "GetDC")]
public static extern IntPtr GetDC(IntPtr hWnd);
[DllImportAttribute("coredll.dll", EntryPoint = "GetWindowDC")]
internal static extern IntPtr GetWindowDC(IntPtr hWnd);
[DllImport("Coredll.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr CreateCompatibleDC(IntPtr hdc);
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr CreateCompatibleBitmap(IntPtr hdc, int nWidth, int nHeight);
[DllImport("coredll.dll")]
public static extern IntPtr CreateDIBSection(IntPtr hdc, IntPtr hdr, uint colors, ref IntPtr pBits, IntPtr hFile, uint offset);
[DllImport("coredll")]
public static extern IntPtr SelectObject(IntPtr hDC, IntPtr hObject);
[DllImport("coredll")]
public static extern int DeleteDC(IntPtr hdc);
[System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImportAttribute("coredll.dll", EntryPoint = "ReleaseDC")]
internal static extern IntPtr ReleaseDC(IntPtr hWnd, IntPtr hDC);
[DllImport("coredll")]
public static extern IntPtr DeleteObject(IntPtr hObject);

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