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How to properly capture the screen in VB6

There are many bad ways to capture the screen in VB6 (i.e. to copy the image on your monitor to a form or picture box), so I wrote this code to demonstrate one of several right ways.  Each of the 4 required API calls is explained in detail.

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All source code in the above zip file has been released under a BSD License.

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