This may not help, cuz I don't know the answer. But assuming you want to do this from within a program, here is where I would start looking:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...asp?frame=true

or

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...asp?frame=true

Once you have the image captured, you could use the system.drawing.imaging namespace if you are working in .Net.

Um, you should read the license docs carefully if you are planning to dynamically publish map images on the Internet. My undersanding is you are allowed 1000 images per license, period.