Is there a way to take a screenshot of the Windows Phone 7? On the iPhone you can press the square button and the power button at the same time to take a screenshot, is there an equivalent action on WP7?
I am using a real phone and not the emulator. This is an easy task on the emulator, but I have collected some data via GPS, which is not available in the emulator.
No solution for the device but for the emulator you have this tool that takes "marketplace-compatible" screenshoots: http://www.innovativetechguy.com/?p=13
It would be nice to have this feature on the phone.
As kP and Mattheiu advise this isn't possible via hardware keys and you can still get dev screenys if that's your need using the tool recommended here.
If you did want to build a function to do this in to your app for some reason, possibly a hidden function of some kind, it can be done. This post will demonstrate.
You can't take a screenshot on the device at itself, at the moment. However, if you're running on the emulator, you can use the snipping tool built into Windows 7. In the start menu, type in 'snip' and click on the Snipping Tool program. If you're doing this for screenshots that will be added to the marketplace, make sure you don't include any of the emulator chrome.
I don't know for sure, but I believe this to be impossible for two reasons. First: there is no real multitasking on wp7. So there is no way any screenshot-app can take a snapshot of any other running app. Second: AFAIK every app runs in its own sandbox.
If there is a way, please correct me here.
