How to capture screen shot in .Net Core console application?

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_{Wednesday, May 30, 2018 7:47 PM}

I am not able to find out dlls to be used in .Net Core for capturing a screen.

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_{Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:24 AM ✅Answered | 2 votes}

This is now possible using **System.Drawing.Common
**

var captureBmp = new Bitmap(1920, 1024, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb);
using (var captureGraphic = Graphics.FromImage(captureBmp))
{
    captureGraphic.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, captureBmp.Size);
    captureBmp.Save("capture.jpg", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
}

It does require you to know the size of the screen as there no support for Screen.

I've only tested this on Windows, but it should work on Linux too.

He's a link to Scott Hanselman's blog using the library for image resizing. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowDoYouUseSystemDrawingInNETCore.aspx 

_{Thursday, May 31, 2018 6:45 AM}

Nope.  .NET Core cannot assume that there is such a thing as a "screen".

You may be able to find third-party libraries for this, if you are running on a desktop.

Tim Roberts, Driver MVP Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

_{Monday, June 4, 2018 2:21 AM}

Hi Akshay S. Deshmukh,

Based on my test, the way I found which used to capture screen always use Bitmap. BitMap could not use in .Net Core. If it is possible, please use .Net.

Here are two examples in .Net.

https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsdesktop/Saving-a-screenshot-using-C-6883abb3

https://www.developerfusion.com/code/4630/capture-a-screen-shot/

Best Regards,

Wendy

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