WPF window disappears in Print Screen

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1. I have written a code in VC as well as in C# for screen capture but it is not able to capture WPF window in screen shot?

2. If I press print screen button on keyboard then WPF window is captured, can be seen in bitmap on windows clipboard.

But application written in VC or C# is unable to capture WPF window in screen shot why??????

Any solution to this ???? :(

Posted 30-Dec-10 17:18pm

prasad@codeproj

Updated 5-Jan-11 1:06am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 31-Dec-10 0:46am

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LloydA111 31-Dec-10 18:36pm

Probably one of the most useless comments I've ever seen in QA.

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Espen Harlinn · Answer 1 · 2010-12-31T05:40:00

Solution 1

Take a look at this - it's probably why you don't get the WPF output
Desktop Window Manager[^]

Here is one way to do it:
http://spazzarama.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/screen-capture-with-vista-dwm/[^]

Regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 31-Dec-10 5:40am

Espen Harlinn

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prasad@codeproj 5-Jan-11 7:13am

Thank you very much Espen, I got the answer now. I have not yet able to use the code I got with the second link given in answer. I built it but dont know exactly how to use it. But anyways thank you very much once again for helping.

With Regards,
Prasad.