Universal Windows® Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed

Capturing Web Content

WebView’s CapturePreviewToStreamAsync method enables you to take a screenshot of its rendered HTML and retrieve it as an IRandomAccessStream. The following code uses this on a WebView named webView then sends the content to an Image named image:

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async Task ShowContent() {   using (InMemoryRandomAccessStream ras = new InMemoryRandomAccessStream())   {     await this.webView.CapturePreviewToStreamAsync(ras);     WriteableBitmap bitmap = new WriteableBitmap((int)this.webView.ActualWidth,                                                  (int)this.webView.ActualHeight);     await bitmap.SetSourceAsync(ras);     this.image.Source = bitmap;   } }

This is different from taking a screenshot with