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Perform screen-scape of Webbrowser control in thread

You can write private Image TakeSnapShot(WebBrowser browser) { browser.Width = browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Width; browser.Height= browser.Document.Body.ScrollRectangle.Height; Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(browser.Width – System.Windows.Forms.SystemInformation.VerticalScrollBarWidth, browser.Height); browser.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, new Rectangle(0, 0, bitmap.Width, bitmap.Height)); return bitmap; } A full working code var image = await WebUtils.GetPageAsImageAsync(“http://www.stackoverflow.com”); image.Save(fname , System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Bmp); public class WebUtils { public static Task<Image> GetPageAsImageAsync(string url) { var tcs = … Read more

Could you explain STA and MTA?

The COM threading model is called an “apartment” model, where the execution context of initialized COM objects is associated with either a single thread (Single Thread Apartment) or many threads (Multi Thread Apartment). In this model, a COM object, once initialized in an apartment, is part of that apartment for the duration of its runtime. … Read more