Hi. I made this program to capture the current screen in C#. In Visual Studio 2008, it worked perfectly, but now with VS 2010, I get the following exception: ExternalException - a generic error occured in GDI+ on the line where I save the bitmap:
bmp.Save("screen.jpg");
I have looked everywhere on the Net, but it's always suggested that the problem is in the code. Well it isn't, the code works fine in VS 2008.
Have a look at this thread - http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/netfxbcl/thread/b955b5cc-335f-4a2d-8fba-1b83af78efe7
I found the problem.
I was using bmp.Save("screens\\screen" + n + ".jpg");
(screens is a non-existing folder to be created)
but when I changed it to bmp.Save("screen" + n + ".jpg"); it worked.
When I used this:
System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory("screens");
bmp.Save("screens\\screen" + n + ".jpg");
it also worked.
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