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c#winformswebbrowser-controlscreenshot

Save WebBrowser control sceenshot while not in full screen


I get the screenshot of a webpage contained inside a WebBrowser control just as described here and here, but I have a problem: if the WebBrowser control is not at full screen, the screenshot gets cropped to the size of the control.

Is it possible to save a screenshot of the whole page if the WebBrowser control is not at full screen?

This is the code I'm currently using to save the screenshot:

private void SaveBrowserScreenshot(WebBrowser browser, string path, string name)
{
    const int width = 1024;
    const int height = 768;
    const string extension = ".png";

    using (var bitmap = new Bitmap(width, height))
    {
        var rect = new Rectangle(0, 0, width, height);
        browser.DrawToBitmap(bitmap, rect);

        using (var image = bitmap)
        {
            using (var graphic = Graphics.FromImage(image))
            {
                graphic.CompositingQuality = CompositingQuality.HighQuality;
                graphic.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality;
                graphic.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;

                image.Save(String.Concat(path, "\\", name, extension), ImageFormat.Png);
            }
        }
    }
}

Performance is not an issue since this will never be used in production.


Solution

  • Could you make a button that when it takes the snapshot it takes the current URL and puts that into a new WeBrowser object which is then expanded to a much bigger size so when it takes the screenshot it's full size?