Since my last update everything run smoothly on the server. I'm a "Microsoft guy" but I always liked to experiment on Linux. Once a year, since college, I get an old machine, format it and re-install the latest Linux version and after everything is done... nothing... ha ha ha ha. ...but this time though, I had another goal in mind... compile my code with Mono and running it on a Linux box! (I know, I could have use Mono on Windows but, hey, what's the fun?)

So last weekend I undusted my machine, boot it up and reformatted it. This time I've installed openSUSE... The installation went smoothly without any issue.  First, I was curious to see if my code would compile at all using Mono... I have been very surprised to see that it did compile.... except the "interop" part where I use the browser obviously.

Hmmm, alright, it's time to try Gecko to produce my browser "screenshots". That was the easy part... there is still a sample code on the web that is dated '04 and does that. Before modifying my existing application, I compiled the sample code and tried it ... no issue here... except one thing: the browser needs to be "visible"... and that is not good.  That's the same issue I got when I tried IHTMLElementRender::DrawToDC version on Windows... I haven't found a way to hide the window and get the image... it only outputs a black image...

Unfortunately, time is precious and that's all I had to give to it...

See you next year Linux!