Rendering form to bitmap

.net-2.0, bitmap, winforms

Solution

Sure, you can call `Control.DrawToBitmap()` to render a control to a bitmap. For more general drawing, you can create a `Bitmap` and then use `Graphics.FromImage()` to create a `Graphics` instance. You can then draw to this graphics instance as normal.

Here's a simple form that can draw itself (just add a button and double click it to add the Click event handler:

public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        Bitmap b = new Bitmap(Width, Height);
        DrawToBitmap(b, new Rectangle(0, 0, Width, Height));
        b.Save("Test.bmp");
    }
}

Problem

I would like to render Form to bitmap... Is it possible in .net 2.0?

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