.net html to image with managed code

I have service which converts HTML to image and开发者_高级运维 sends back.

At present I am using WebBrowser control to do that. But it is far from perfect. During peak hours service crashes or gives Null reference exception. Also it is not lightweight on memory. I looking for lightweight managed option to this job.

Kindly let me know for any open source project or for any other managed control which will do this job.

Update: I have very simple HTML to render. It is only with table, paragraph and stylesheet for font and background-color. There is not Javascript, element float or other complex layout.

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You can try Awesomium

using System;
using AwesomiumSharp;
using System.Threading;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace AwesomiumSharpBasic
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main( string[] args )
        {
            // Display some informative message. Loading the page
            // may  take a while depending on your internet
            // connection speed.
            Console.WriteLine( "Getting a 1024x768 snapshot" +
                "of http://www.awesomium.com ..." );

            // Create a WebView.
            // WebView implements IDisposable. You can dispose and
            // destroy the view by calling WebView.Close().
            // Here we demonstrate wrapping it in a using statement.
            using ( WebView webView =
                    WebCore.CreateWebView( 1024, 768 ) )
            {
                // Variable used to announce
                // that the page has loaded.
                bool finishedLoading = false;

                // Load a page in the view.
                webView.LoadURL( "http://www.awesomium.com" );
                // Handle the LoadCompleted event to monitor
                // page loading.
                webView.LoadCompleted += ( sender, e ) =>
                {
                    finishedLoading = true;
                };

                // Wait for the page to load.
                while ( !finishedLoading )
                {
                    Thread.Sleep( 100 );
                    // WebCore provides an Auto-Update feature
                    // for UI applications. A console application
                    // has no UI and no synchronization context
                    // so we need to manually call Update here.
                    WebCore.Update();

                }
                // Render to a pixel buffer and save the buffer
                // to a .png image.
                webView.Render().SaveToPNG( "result.png", true );
            }

            // Start the application associated with .png files
            // and display the file.
            Process.Start( "result.png" );

            // Shut down Awesomium before exiting.
            WebCore.Shutdown();
        }
    }
}

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Try WebKit .Net.

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I finally settled on WebBrowser control due to not so valid HTML available at my end.

I should mention following post which should solve problem for other guys who got valid HTML. It mentions few open source and paid controls.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/managed-html-rendering.html