Monitor.CaptureScreenToMemoryStream Method

Captures the screen to memory stream.
public static MemoryStream CaptureScreenToMemoryStream()
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Return Value

MemoryStream

A MemoryStream.

public static MemoryStream CaptureScreenToMemoryStream()
 {
     Bitmap BM = new Bitmap(Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Width,
         Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Height);
     Graphics GH = Graphics.FromImage(BM);
     GH.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, BM.Size);
     MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
     BM.Save(memoryStream, ImageFormat.Png);
     memoryStream.Position = 0;
     return memoryStream;
 }
					
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.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2, 4.8

.NET Core

Supported in: 5.0+, 6.0+

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