The project today is Screen lock, Screen lock is used to lock the screen of your computer. and not just to access or tamper with your work. yet you will be able to access that requiring the user to perform a certain action in order to receive access, like log-in or click the button. here are one example of the lock screen.
First open Microsoft Visual Studio 2008/2010 and Create New Project and name it and then add three Form, first form the main form, second the background or the block screen and third form the close or unblock form. Then add three Module. first Lock Screen Module, second Lock System Parameters and Native module.
Lock Screen Module
Imports System.Threading Public NotInheritable Class LockScreen Private myForm As Form #Region " System Locking Methods " Public Function LockSystemAndShow(ByVal myDForm As Form) As Boolean myForm = myDForm Dim scr As Screen scr = Screen.PrimaryScreen Dim background As Bitmap = New Bitmap(scr.Bounds.Width, scr.Bounds.Height) Using g As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(background) g.CopyFromScreen(0, 0, 0, 0, scr.Bounds.Size) Using br As Brush = New SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(192, Color.Black)) g.FillRectangle(br, scr.Bounds) End Using End Using Dim originalThread As IntPtr Dim originalInput As IntPtr Dim newDesktop As IntPtr originalThread = GetThreadDesktop(Thread.CurrentThread.ManagedThreadId) originalInput = OpenInputDesktop(0, False, DESKTOP_SWITCHDESKTOP) newDesktop = CreateDesktop("Desktop" & Guid.NewGuid().ToString(), Nothing, Nothing, 0, GENERIC_ALL, Nothing) SetThreadDesktop(newDesktop) SwitchDesktop(newDesktop) Dim newThread As Thread = New Thread(AddressOf NewThreadMethod) newThread.CurrentCulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture newThread.CurrentUICulture = Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture newThread.Start(New LockSystemParameters(newDesktop, background)) newThread.Join() SwitchDesktop(originalInput) SetThreadDesktop(originalThread) CloseDesktop(newDesktop) CloseDesktop(originalInput) Return True End Function Private Sub NewThreadMethod(ByVal params As Object) Dim v As LockSystemParameters = DirectCast(params, LockSystemParameters) SetThreadDesktop(v.NewDesktop) Using f As Form = New BlockScreen(v.Background) f.Show() myForm.ShowDialog() f.BackgroundImage = Nothing Application.DoEvents() Thread.Sleep(250) End Using End Sub #End Region End Class
Lock System Parameters
Friend Class LockSystemParameters Public NewDesktop As IntPtr Public Background As Bitmap Public Sub New(ByVal newDesktop As IntPtr, ByVal background As Bitmap) Me.NewDesktop = newDesktop Me.Background = background End Sub End Class
Native module
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices_ Friend Module Native Public Const GENERIC_ALL As Integer = &H10000000 Public Const DESKTOP_SWITCHDESKTOP As Integer = &H100L Public Declare Auto Function GetThreadDesktop Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal threadId As Integer) As IntPtr Public Declare Auto Function OpenInputDesktop Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal flags As Integer, ByVal inherit As Boolean, ByVal desiredAccess As Integer) As IntPtr Public Declare Auto Function CreateDesktop Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal desktop As String, ByVal device As String, ByVal devmode As IntPtr, ByVal flags As Integer, ByVal desiredAccess As Integer, ByVal lpsa As IntPtr) As IntPtr Public Declare Auto Function SetThreadDesktop Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal desktop As IntPtr) As Boolean Public Declare Auto Function SwitchDesktop Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal desktop As IntPtr) As Boolean Public Declare Auto Function CloseDesktop Lib "user32.dll" (ByVal desktop As IntPtr) As Boolean End Module
In main form there have a 2 button The LOCK and EXIT.
Public Class MainForm Private Sub MainForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Me.Location = New Point(10, 10) End Sub Private Sub btnlock_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnlock.Click Dim myObj As LockScreen = New LockScreen myObj.LockSystemAndShow(CloseBotton) End Sub Private Sub btnexit_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnexit.Click End End Sub End Class
The background or the block screen.
Public Class BlockScreen Inherits Form Private background As Bitmap Public Sub New(ByVal background As Bitmap) Me.BackColor = Color.Black Me.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None Me.Location = Point.Empty Me.Size = Screen.PrimaryScreen.Bounds.Size Me.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual Me.Visible = True Me.background = background End Sub Protected Overrides Sub OnShown(ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Me.BackgroundImage = background Me.DoubleBuffered = True MyBase.OnShown(e) End Sub End Class
The Close or Unblock form
Public Class CloseBotton Private Sub btnunlock_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnunlock.Click Me.Close() End Sub Private Sub CloseBotton_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Me.Location = New Point(10, 10) End Sub End Class
Follow the code and you... create your own lock screen with login.
If you want the copy of this project. Here's the link.
http://j.gs/6IHD
This Project Design and Program By: lyo