Program a Screen-Capture Tool in C#
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Course overview
- Provider
- Udemy
- Course type
- Paid course
- Level
- Intermediate
- Duration
- 2 hours
- Lessons
- 28 lessons
- Certificate
- Available on completion
- Course author
- Huw Collingbourne
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- Develop a functional and useful screen-grab tool.
- Understand how to import Windows API functions.
- Be able to deal with screen-handling even on multi-monitor systems.
- Understand hotkeys that trigger actions throughout Windows.
- Understand the Windows Procedure (WndProc).
Description
Develop a screen-grab tool using C# and the Windows API
Create a screen-capture tool in C#. In this course you will follow the development of a complete project from the ground up. You will end up with a utility that grabs images from screen and saves them to disk in multiple image formats.
In this course you will develop programs that do all the following:
- Grab an image of the entire screen
- Grab an image of a selected window
- Grab an image from a second or third monitor
- Mark an area of the screen with the mouse and grab that area
- Add an image of the mouse pointer to grabbed images
- Calculate screen coordinates and offsets
- Save images to disk in various image formats
- Create hotkeys to trigger the screen-capture from any application
- Use forms and picture boxes to display images
- Use Windows API functions to add extra features to C#
- Use file dialogs to save and load images
- Create transparent and translucent windows
- Make forms draggable using API functions
- Override the Windows Procedure to handle events
This is a project-based course that comes with all the source code ready-to-run. It provides a great way for C# programmers to move beyond the basics to explore the development of more complex C# applications.
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