Screen Capture WPF

Capturing an image on your screen can be essential in testing, creating tutorials or just proving a point. Besides the common method of using the provided print screen button on your keyboard, various applications like Screen Capture WPF are available to enhance and ease the process.

Running the application hides it directly to the system tray with a notification balloon informing you of its location. It lacks a main window, but this should not be a problem as its features are cleverly made available so that there is no need of one.

Choosing to put the process in motion gives you access to four methods to capture activity on your desktop. A region option lets you drag your mouse around a custom area, the active window can also be captured, a highlighted object on the screen, as well as the whole content.

Even though there is no main window, accessing the settings menu does bring up an interface with several options. You are able to specify a default output folder, choose what action to be taken after the screen is captured, as well as having a sound triggered to let you know the process is successful.

One of the most useful features of the application is that you are able to make use of hotkeys for all of the four capturing methods. Given the lack of a main window and the possibility to have pictures automatically saved to a specified folder, this represents a considerable plus.

To sum it up, Screen Capture WPF is a pretty lightweight and handy application that can provide a screenshot as fast as you can press the custom combination of keys. Some advanced features are missing and could have made it suitable for professional tasks, but for the targeted public it does the job flawlessly.