Silverlight 4 Screen Capture

Question

I'm writing a timesheet helper utility in Silverlight 4. This will be a trusted out of browser application that will periodically ask the user (with a SL4 Notification Window) what they have been working on. What I'd like to do is have it capture images of their desktop (or better yet, active window) from time to time in order to remind them of what they have been working on since they last submitted their status report. Is this idea even possible? Do I need to use COM? If so, what COM component would I use?

Answer 1

This article helps you to capture Silverlight Screen and trasfer encoded byte array to a WCF Service Method.

http://dotnetthread.com/articles/21-Saving-the-captured-Silverlight-4-screenshot-to-database-or-send-it-as-an-email-attachment.aspx

http://dotnetthread.com/articles/10-Capture-the-screenshot-of-Silverlight-application-in-Silverlight-4.aspx

Hope this helps...

Answer 2

I don't know of any installed COM object you could use -- you'd have to create one and install it.