The point is, that I need to convert to a System.Drawing.Bitmap (.Net Framework 2.0) to get a single frame of an WPF Grid with its content.
I read about VisualBrush
and DrawingBrush
but I cannot imagine how it should work.
I can convert any WPF BitmapSource
into my System.Drawing.Bitmap
successfully. But how to receive the BitmapSource
from my Grid?
Thanks
To convert a Visual
to BitmapSource
you can use RenderTargetBitmap
, VisualBrush
and DrawingVisual
:
public BitmapSource ConvertToBitmapSource(UIElement element)
{
var target = new RenderTargetBitmap((int)(element.RenderSize.Width), (int)(element.RenderSize.Height), 96, 96, PixelFormats.Pbgra32);
var brush = new VisualBrush(element);
var visual = new DrawingVisual();
var drawingContext = visual.RenderOpen();
drawingContext.DrawRectangle(brush, null, new Rect(new Point(0, 0),
new Point(element.RenderSize.Width, element.RenderSize.Height)));
drawingContext.Close();
target.Render(visual);
return target;
}