I'm a beginner at this programming thing (C# and VB/VB.Net) but I have
been given a task that I don't even knwo how to start to accomplish.

   I'm not asking anyone to write the code or anything, just to point me in
the right direction if you can.

   The situation is this...  My boss wants me to write a client that users
can use to connect to a machine on our network (we'll call this the host)
and view the host's screen as close to real time as possible.  He wants to
use the application as a teaching tool in-house and wants to write it
in-house so that there will be no problems with changing it around or
royalties or anything.

   I suggested something like VNC (it's free, right?), but he only wants a
client that shows the screen like VNC does.  He wants no other
functionality.  He also hates using other folks software - he's strange like
that.

   Any ideas on the type of calls (API or otherwise) I should be looking at
to detect and transmit the screen image in a near-real-time manner?

   Thanks for your help.

John Osborne