snapshot of website with provided URL address, through vb.net code

Question

i have seen google chrome, whenever you open a new tab, it will show you the last 8 pages that you have visited. I want to do a similar thing, except i have a vb.net code behind the .aspx file, which shall give me a list of URL's called form the database. When the page is loaded the URL's are displayed on it. what i need my code to do is to pick up these URL's, on the background open a web browser, take a snapshot of it and save it, and display it on the screen. Please dont recommend IFrames cause I need a snapshot and not an actual running site in the small snapshot.

Answer 1

The only thing I know that will do such a thing is ActivePDF's WebGrabber product. Then you will have to find a way to convert the generated PDF to a bitmap or something you can actually dynamically render. iTextSharp might be able to do this. I know that Tracker PDF Tools can, but like WebGrabber, it costs...