Printing screen shots

Many of our assignments require you to turn in a screen shot of the running program. You can do that using the PrntScrn key in the upper right hand portion of the keyboard.

When you hit the PrntScrn key, an image of the entire screen is placed in the Windows Clipboard. You can then paste (control-v) the image into Paint, Word, or another program. At that point, you can modify it, save it, print it, etc.

If you hold down the Alt key while hitting PrntScrn, you place an image of just the active window, not the entire screen, in the clipboard. You can use Alt plus PrntScrn to make a screen shot that shows only your program.

Some assignments also require that you turn in the event-handler code you wrote in a program. You can print that using the Print menu in the VS development system or by opening the form1.vb file with Notepad or some other text editor and printing that.

Note that you can print event-handler code using the VS development system, but you need PrntScrn to get a screen shot of a running program.

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