Using WPF hardware accelerated drop shadow in ASP.NET server-side?

Question

I'd like to run drop shadow on Bitmap class in ASP.NET and I'd be really happy if GPU could do that. Any chance of this happening?

Update: I'd like to do that on server side. It doesn't really have to be ASP.NET app, it could be console app or windows service.

Answer 1

How about running Silverlight embedded in ASP.NET?

Answer 2

The issue is there is no hardware accelerated method to capture a visual to a bitmap. RenderTargetBitmap uses the software render path. You can however get RTB to work in an ASP.NET application, but it is not a supported scenario.