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An example screenshot of the Screen Capturing

For a very long time ago, in one of my projects, I needed to capture the screenshot which must have to support both full screen capturing and specific regional capturing.

Also I need to paste that captured image back to the screen programmatically. At that moment I solved my problem by using some WinApi methods in the user32.dll and gdi32.dll. Here I want to share that code with you.

If you want to find MS SQL Servers which are available in a network, there are two different ways you can use for searching the network for available Sql Servers.

1 – There is a class in the .NET Framework which name is SqlDataSourceEnumerator in the System.Data.Sql namespace. We can use that class, and get the sql servers easly:

DataTable sqls = SqlDataSourceEnumerator.Instance.GetDataSources();

In this method we can only get the Sql Server machines on a network. There is also another method to get list of SQL Servers on a network. Also this second method can also be used to search for some other type of servers too. Here is the second method;

An example screenshot of the Test

Everybody knows that Reflection is a really very important topic in .NET. So I won’t repeat the importance of it, it is an unquestionable subject; besides, I have to admit that it saved my life too  many times.

But like every good thing Reflection has also some disadvantages, too. One of the important disadvantages of the Reflection is performance.

Download Source Code From GitHub

Tonight i uploaded an example about Server-Client applications to the server. The name of the example is B-MSN which is an instant messaging program like MSN, AOL or Yahoo IM.

Some of the specifications of the B-MSN are;

Supports Smileys
Supports personal image
NetServer and NetClient components which you can also use them as standalone
Flashes window when a new message received
Supports RTF text sending
Informs you while the person whom you chat with is writing a message to you
Supports Saving Message Histories