How to reproduce: public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); this.IsMdiContainer = true; this.Load += Form1_Load; } private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { RadForm form = new RadForm(); form.Text = "MDI Child 1"; form.MdiParent = this; form.Show(); } private void radButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { RadForm activeChild = this.ActiveMdiChild as RadForm; if (activeChild == null) { MessageBox.Show("no active form child found!"); return; } else { SaveAsBitmap(activeChild, activeChild + ".Jpeg"); MessageBox.Show("Screen Captured successfully."); } } public void SaveAsBitmap(Form form, string fileName) { SaveFileDialog dialog = new SaveFileDialog(); dialog.Filter = "JPeg Image|*.jpg|Bitmap Image|*.bmp|Gif Image|*.gif"; if (dialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(form.Width, form.Height); form.DrawToBitmap(bmp, new Rectangle(0, 0, form.Width, form.Height)); bmp.Save(dialog.FileName, ImageFormat.Jpeg); } } } Workaround: public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); this.IsMdiContainer = true; this.Load += Form1_Load; } private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { RadForm form = new RadForm(); form.Text = "MDI Child 1"; form.MdiParent = this; form.Show(); } private void radButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { RadForm activeChild = this.ActiveMdiChild as RadForm; if (activeChild == null) { MessageBox.Show("no active form child found!"); return; } else { SaveAsBitmap(activeChild, activeChild + ".Jpeg"); MessageBox.Show("Screen Captured successfully."); } } public void SaveAsBitmap(Form form, string fileName) { Bitmap bmpScreenshot = new Bitmap(form.Bounds.Width, form.Bounds.Height, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb); Graphics gfxScreenshot = Graphics.FromImage(bmpScreenshot); Point pt = form.Parent.PointToScreen(form.Location); gfxScreenshot.CopyFromScreen(pt.X, pt.Y, 0, 0, form.Bounds.Size, CopyPixelOperation.SourceCopy); SaveFileDialog saveImageDialog = new SaveFileDialog(); saveImageDialog.Title = "Select output file:"; saveImageDialog.Filter = "JPeg Image|*.jpg|Bitmap Image|*.bmp|Gif Image|*.gif"; if (saveImageDialog.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { bmpScreenshot.Save(saveImageDialog.FileName, ImageFormat.Png); } } }