Chart.CopyPicture Method

Article
07/25/2011

Copies the chart to the Clipboard as a picture.

Namespace: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel
Assembly: Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel (in Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Sub CopyPicture ( _
    Appearance As XlPictureAppearance, _
    Format As XlCopyPictureFormat, _
    Size As XlPictureAppearance _
)

void CopyPicture(
    XlPictureAppearance Appearance,
    XlCopyPictureFormat Format,
    XlPictureAppearance Size
)

Parameters

Appearance
Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlPictureAppearance
XlPictureAppearance . Specifies how the picture should be copied.

Format
Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlCopyPictureFormat
XlCopyPictureFormat . The format of the picture.

Size
Type: Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.XlPictureAppearance
XlPictureAppearance . The size of the copied picture when the object is a chart on a chart sheet (not embedded on a worksheet).

Remarks

Optional Parameters

For information on optional parameters, see Optional Parameters in Office Solutions.

Examples

The following code example creates a Chart and then uses the CopyPicture method to copy the chart to the Clipboard as a bitmap.

Private Sub CopyChartAsBitmap()
    Me.Range("A1", "A5").Value2 = 22
    Me.Range("B1", "B5").Value2 = 55

    Dim Chart1 As Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart = _
        Me.Controls.AddChart(Me.Range("D2", "H12"), "Chart1")

    Chart1.SetSourceData(Me.Range("A1", "B5"), Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns)
    Chart1.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xl3DColumn

    Chart1.CopyPicture(Excel.XlPictureAppearance.xlScreen, _
        Excel.XlCopyPictureFormat.xlBitmap, _
        Excel.XlPictureAppearance.xlScreen)
End Sub

private void CopyChartAsBitmap()
{
    this.Range["A1", "A5"].Value2 = 22;
    this.Range["B1", "B5"].Value2 = 55;

    Microsoft.Office.Tools.Excel.Chart chart1 =
        this.Controls.AddChart(this.Range["D2", "H12"], 
        "chart1");

    chart1.SetSourceData(this.Range["A1", "B5"], 
        Excel.XlRowCol.xlColumns);
    chart1.ChartType = Excel.XlChartType.xl3DColumn;

    chart1.CopyPicture(Excel.XlPictureAppearance.xlScreen,
        Excel.XlCopyPictureFormat.xlBitmap, 
        Excel.XlPictureAppearance.xlScreen);
}

.NET Framework Security

Full trust for the immediate caller. This member cannot be used by partially trusted code. For more information, see Using Libraries from Partially Trusted Code.

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