ASP.NET screenshot page

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Related Stack Overflow question is Programmatically get a screenshot of a page.

My users will be logged into a private system, and I want to have a button on the page that says "Take Screenshot". This will link into the support system, and when they take the screen shot, it creates a new ticket with the screen shot as an automatic attachment.

Content is variable, depending on who you are logged in as! This means I can't use an external screen shotting tool.

Ideally, I would like all the HTML to be rendered to a bitmap which is saved to a disk. Is there some sort of server-side Internet Explorer component that can render the HTML and save it as a BMP?

Kierren made good points. If I can grab the HTML via JavaScript, is there any server-side plugin that can render the HTML as an image as viewed through Internet Explorer?

This will *not* be a screenshot: it won't include any errors or problems introduced by the browser, internet connection, firewall, content filtering - depending on how you render the page it also won't include form field values — Kieren Johnstone, Apr 11 '11 at 08:44

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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I did some unsuccesful attempts with that in the past. I could not get the solution which works seemlessly but here are some I have had near-sucess (i.e. for most of the URLs) [Since I was doing POC, results did not matter] See if that helps

WebBrowser.DrawToBitmap() or other methods?

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/graphics/html2image.aspx

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answered Apr 11 '11 at 13:13

Subhash Dike

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 29 '14 at 13:43

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I have not heard of an HTML-to-bitmap converter before, but there are definitely HTML-to-PDF options,

http://www.htm2pdf.co.uk/

and

http://html-pdf-converter.com/

to name a couple.

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Peter Mortensen

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answered Apr 11 '11 at 08:40

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ASP.NET screenshot page

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