> Using .NET or any other advanced API...
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> My goal is to programmatically start Internet Explorer, navigate to a URL, grab a snapshot of the rendered page and save the snapshot as an image file...
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> Basically, I would like to render an HTML page (HTML / javascript) as an image...
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> Is there any .NET class of third party I can use to do this? It has to be done in the background, on a server.
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> Any hint, documentation, links, etc?

Alexandre,

I happened across this the other day. It may not be a good fit, but I figure it may be worth looking at. Or give you some ideas on something to look for.

http://www.guangmingsoft.com/htmltoimage/help.htm

Hope that helps...