Screen Background

How to create a Form that has the Windows Desktop as the background. This program makes it appear as though the Windows Desktop is still running, but it actually copies the image of the Desktop to an Image control that is used as the Form's background.

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Posted: 2017-08-18
By: BlackBeltVB
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Requirements

This code originally appeared on BlackBeltVB.com, and has been republished here with the permission of Matt Hart.

Special Instructions

Uses the following API functions:

BitBlt
GetDC
GetDesktopWindow
ReleaseDC

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