Visual Basic - Screen Capturing Program Tutorial - Take a ScreenShot of your screen..! - VB.net

Requirements:
2 Buttons (Name: Button1 (Text: Capture), Button2 (Text: Save)
1 PictureBox (Size Mode: Stretched Image)
1 Timer (Name: Timer1) (Interval approx. 10000)

Codes:

Public Class Form1
'Button 2 = Capture
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Me.Opacity = 0
Timer1.Enabled = True
End Sub

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.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
Timer1.Enabled = False
Me.Opacity = 100
End Sub

'Button1 = Save
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim savefiledialog1 As New SaveFileDialog
Try
savefiledialog1.Title = "Save File"
savefiledialog1.FileName = "Save As..."
savefiledialog1.Filter = "JPEG |*.jpeg"
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

End Class

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