Hi

I'm looking to implement the following functionality. Does anybody have any tips?

When somebody types in a URL and submits, DNN/ASP.NET goes and crawls the URL and takes a GIF (or like image format) snapshot to be stored in the database for later retrieval. Much like you get in IE7/quick tabs.

Does anybody know if this is at all possible?

Anybody know any modules that do it?

Otherwise I guess it's time to bring out visual studio. Anybody seen any demo code or has done this in the past?

Cheers!

Alex

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If you were developing a Windows form application, you could use the WebBrower (.NET 2.0 version) control which exposes a DrawToBitmap method. Unfortunately, I don't believe that you could even instantiate the WebBrowser class (which is really a wrapper around an ActiveX control) in an ASP.NET project. It also requires a full trust environment. Unfortunately, I don't have any other suggestions as every other approach that I've come across uses the IE browser for its rendering.

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Lots of PC programs available to do the task...  You could use scheduler and set up a job using: http://www.mewsoft.com/Products/SnapshotterPro.html upload the results.  (Command line version Snapshotter)   

I don't know of any DNN modules that are able to do this task.

If you are interested in a free 3rd party hosted service take a look at snap.com.  Saves Bandwidth too!