how to disable "PRINT SCREEN" button while running my Application in WPF?

How can I disable Print Screen functionality while my WPF application is running?

The us开发者_高级运维e-case is that my client wants to avoid unnecessary replication of valuable patient-centric data from the outside world and they provide the physical security to keep people from taking data through non-digital means.

Okay, it is possible, and could indeed be useful if your application is deployed in an environment where a camera is not available to the user.

First of all, I used the RegisterHotKey and UnregisterHotKey API calls, documented here http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.RegisterHotKey as described in this rather old article here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163713.aspx.

I registered the IDHOT_SNAPDESKTOP hotkey in the Window_Load event and unregistered it in the Window_Closed. Trying to do this in the constructor gave me problems getting a consistent handle with the WindowInteropHelper(this) method.

If you'd like to do more than just ignore the keys you can set up a windows message handler, making a kind of WndProc using,

HwndSource source = HwndSource.FromHwnd(<handle>);
source.AddHook(<WndProc>);

making the handle as described above, and the WndProc implementation yourself.

As yet, I don't know how to "not" handle the hot key and get windows to perform its normal behaviour except, of course, by unregistering the hotkeys.

Its not very elegant or "WPF" but it worked for me.

As @ghord comments

The use of EnsureHandle() looks useful for getting a handler in the constructor.

It's not possible to disable printing, and even if it were possible, it would be easily circumvented by a cell phone camera. Many are in the megapixel resolution range, making it quite easy for someone to get the information they want.

If you want to disable the Print Screen Key on your keyboard, Jodrell's answer gives a way of doing that (understanding that it's not going to keep people from printing, and a determined user will find a way around that).

Really, it all comes down to trust. If an employer can't trust their employees not to remove data that is already protected by law in most jurisdictions (HIPAA in the USA), then there's a bigger issue at stake.

Easy:

Windows.UI.ViewManagement.ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().IsScreenCaptureEnabled = false;

Simply speaking, you cannot. "Print screen" just copies the pixels on the screen to the clipboard, and is not part of your application.

Basically you can hook to the ClipBoard events and then set the image copied to null if someone does it. So they can copy the image but it will be reset:

Have a look at this:

Clipboard event C#

Alternatively in a timer, check the content of the clip board and clear it as soon as it is set to a picture.

No, No way to do that. Even if you capture the Print Screen key in your application user might set focus to some other application and then do the Print screen(having your application on side etc.).

Only way would be to create a dummy application in background which captures all keystrokes using Keyboard Hooks and filters Print Screen, but that will happen for all applications not just yours. And moreover as George said user can use cellphone camera too!

I think Microsoft Rights Management System can help. Give it a try. Following is the link:

Microsoft Rights Management System

The only way I can think of is to use the native Windows API (SetWindowsHookEx) to catch all keystrokes and filter out the PrintScreen key. However this would involve creating a native (i.e. unmanaged) DLL to actually do the keystroke processing.