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.
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.
15 Lectures
13 Lectures
Huw Collingbourne is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, developers of programming tools for Microsoft Visual Studio. He is author of The Little Book Of C, The Little Book Of Pointers and The Little Book Of Recursion from Bitwise Books and of The Book Of Ruby from No Starch Press. He runs Bitwise Courses and teaches courses on a range...
I enjoyed the lessons and the style of teaching. Very clear.
Thanks for a nice course.
I found a lot of useful, ideas, API knowledge and how to bring it all together. At the end, you actually have a useful application.
Once again, THANKS.
Exactly what i was looking for. Thanks a lot
I wish that it was a code along course, it's easier to grasp these sort of concepts with explanation and typing along to figure out what's going on but overall very nice and informative presentation of using the Windows API.
Short and sweet. But packed with a lot of cool Windows API calls that were somewhat of a mystery, until this course made sense out of them. Huw is a great instructor, explains things very well. I highly recommend this course.
Great learning, but I would have liked the instructore leading through building the program instead of having most of the program written out, and then re-typing it.
I am an established professional programmer and I found Huw's style of presentation to be perfect for me.
What was the point was supposed to build from the ground up but basically just gave the code then told you where to look for explanations online.
The instruction does an excellent job of explaining his coding reasons
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Erland M.
Nice to be here with you again Huw. I have had so much use of your courses and made some very useful applicaitions myself. So now I am here again and looks forward to be able to use windows functions....
// Erland