Rendering picture of a Webpage : berkelium-sharp

Question

I'm trying to render a picture of a webpage within an application. Unfortunately I don't have a Windows Form available to me so solutions such as WebKit.net aren't avaliable as they require the control on a form to then extract an image.

I therefore started looking at wrappers for Berkelium, and only came across berkelium-sharp. It seems to have no documentation to make things difficult, but looking at the code I can't see a way to create a Bitmap (or similar) from the page that is rendered underneath. Does anyone know if it's possible?

I should add that I have to use .NET 2.0 before anyone starts offering alternatives that won't work (although I'm open to those that do!).

Answer 1

It's a little quirky to use initially, but after emailing the author I managed to come up with the following in berkelium-sharp. Posting here in case it's useful for anyone else.

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {                        
        BerkeliumSharp.Init(Path.GetTempPath());
        using (Context context = Context.Create())
        {
            BerkeliumSharp.Update();
            using (Window window = new Window(context))
            {
                string url = "http://www.google.com";
                window.Resize(500, 500);
                HandlePaint(window, @"m:\berkelium.png");
                window.NavigateTo(url);

                // Give the page some time to update
                DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
                while(DateTime.Now.Subtract(now).TotalSeconds < 1)
                    BerkeliumSharp.Update();                   
            }
        }
    }

This then uses the HandlePaint method as included in the source code for the automated tests. I should also add that in the tests there is a handy technique to wait until the page has loaded to remove the hardcoded 1 second delay.