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How to get a thumbnail of a window in C#?

How do you go about getting a thumbnail of a window, like Windows 7 superbar preview, or Aero flip? Note that I do not want a screenshot of the application, there is a way in DWM to get this information.

I would like a C# way of doing this.

Thanks

+1  A: 

Check this out

http://www.onedotnetway.com/programmatically-take-screenshot-using-c/

and then Michael L.'s comment.

Jan Jongboom  2009-09-23 06:54:34
Jan, appreciate it, but this is exactly what I didn't want .. it just takes a screenshot. Vista/Win7 have an API for using DWM to do this which just gets a scaled down image of the buffer directly from the video card, thus avoiding the 'blanked out application' issue when minimized.
esac  2009-09-23 15:42:00
A: 

You may want to check out Mimic - it's entire purpose is to do this, although it is a standalone app.

Nathan Tomkins  2009-09-23 07:14:03
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Shay Erlichmen  2009-09-23 08:32:34

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