Winsock Screen Capture, PLZ HELP!!!!

[jtballer4]

ok i am trying to make a screen capture program that takes a screenshot and sends it over winsock to a remote computer

First my program takes the screenshot as a bitmap

SaveScreen ("C:\windows\desktop\1.bmp")

Now i need to change this picture into a byte array to send over winosck

i've tried many different procedures to change this picture into a byte array, but i've had nothing but problems on both the client and recieving end

I had tried using this code:

' Global Memory Flags
Const GMEM_MOVEABLE = &H2
Const GMEM_ZEROINIT = &H40
 
Const GHND = (GMEM_MOVEABLE Or GMEM_ZEROINIT)
 
Private Declare Function GlobalAlloc Lib "kernel32" ( _
  ByVal wFlags As Long, _
  ByVal dwBytes As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function GlobalSize Lib "kernel32" ( _
  ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function GlobalLock Lib "kernel32" ( _
  ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
 
Private Declare Function GlobalUnlock Lib "kernel32" ( _
  ByVal hMem As Long) As Long
 
Const PictureID = &H746C&
 
Private Type PictureHeader
   Magic As Long
   Size As Long
End Type
 
Public Sub Picture2Array(ByVal oObj As StdPicture, aBytes() As Byte)
Dim oIPS As IPersistStream
Dim oStream As IStream
Dim hGlobal As Long
Dim lPtr As Long
Dim lSize As Long
Dim Hdr As PictureHeader
 
   ' Get the IPersistStream interface
   Set oIPS = oObj
   
   ' Create a IStream object
   ' on global memory
   Set oStream = CreateStreamOnHGlobal(0, True)
   
   ' Save the picture in the stream
   oIPS.Save oStream, True
      
   ' Get the global memory handle
   ' from the stream
   hGlobal = GetHGlobalFromStream(oStream)
   
   ' Get the memory size
   lSize = GlobalSize(hGlobal)
   
   ' Get a pointer to the memory
   lPtr = GlobalLock(hGlobal)
   
   If lPtr Then
   
      lSize = lSize - Len(Hdr)
      
      ' Redim the array
      ReDim aBytes(0 To lSize - 1)
   
      ' Copy the data to the array
      MoveMemory aBytes(0), ByVal lPtr + Len(Hdr), lSize
   
   End If
   
   ' Release the pointer
   GlobalUnlock hGlobal
   
   ' Release the IStream object
   Set oStream = Nothing
 
End Sub

but i get an Automation error on the recieving end when i convert it back, so thats no good

Can someone plz HELP ME, I've been working on this problem for almost a week now, I need to figure this out!!!

Thank you,
Justin