How to access the print screen image?

Question

When we hit the button Print Screen from our keyboard, the screen image is saved in some cache, in memory, somewhere, because when we give Ctrl V after, in Paint for example it trims, how to access the location and "pick up" the image from there in C#?

Answer 1

When you use the key Print Screen, a copy of what’s on the screen goes to the Clipboard. It’s the same place where any information you copy or cut goes.

Under . NET, you can access and interact with the clipboard through some classes that have the same name, although they are on namespaces different. The ones I know are:

• System.Windows.Clipboard (Clipboard is the name of the clipboard in English);
• System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard

Note that the methods are basically the same. You can check the type of content in the clipboard - ContainsImage will tell you if it is an image - and with the method GetImage you get an object that contains your image.

Answer 2

A code ready for use complementing the response of Renan:

using static System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat; //Somente à partir do C# 6
using static System.Clipboard; //Somente à partir do C# 6, caso contrário, use apenas o namespace

if (ContainsImage())  
    GetImage().Save(@"image.jpeg", Jpeg);

I put in the Github for future reference.

You can still use a most complete solution.