FetchLatestChromeHeadlessShellAsync Method

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Download the latest version of chrome headless shell and save it to the specified path, if the latest version is already present it'll return the path of the existing browser path.

Syntax

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Managed Extensions for C++
C++/CLI

'Declaration
 
<AsyncStateMachineAttribute(GdPicture14.GdPictureDocumentUtilities/d__12)> 
Public Shared Function FetchLatestChromeHeadlessShellAsync( _ 
   ByVal path As String _ 
) As Task(Of String)

[AsyncStateMachine(GdPicture14.GdPictureDocumentUtilities/d__12)] 
public static Task<string> FetchLatestChromeHeadlessShellAsync( 
   string path 
)

public function FetchLatestChromeHeadlessShellAsync( 
    path: String
): Task; static;

AsyncStateMachineAttribute(GdPicture14.GdPictureDocumentUtilities/d__12) 
public static function FetchLatestChromeHeadlessShellAsync( 
   path : String 
) : Task;

[AsyncStateMachine(GdPicture14.GdPictureDocumentUtilities/d__12)] 
public: static Task<string*>* FetchLatestChromeHeadlessShellAsync( 
   string* path 
)

[AsyncStateMachine(GdPicture14.GdPictureDocumentUtilities/d__12)] 
public: 
static Task<String^>^ FetchLatestChromeHeadlessShellAsync( 
   String^ path 
)

Parameters

path: The folder where the executable will be downloaded

Return Value

The full path of the downloaded executable

Remarks

In order to ensure the use of the latest revision of Chrome, we strongly advise to run this method regularly. See more here.

Example

var latestChromeDownloadPath = await GdPictureDocumentUtilities.GetLatestChromeHeadlessShellAsync(Environment.CurrentDirectory);
GdPictureDocumentUtilities.SetWebBrowserPath(latestChromeDownloadPath);
            
using GdPictureDocumentConverter conv = new();
            
var status = conv.LoadFromHttp(new Uri("https://avepdf.com/"));
    if (status != GdPictureStatus.OK)
{
    throw new Exception($"Convert from http Failed ! ({status})");
}
            
status = conv.SaveAsPDF("output.pdf");
if (status != GdPictureStatus.OK)
{
    throw new Exception($"Saved from http Failed ! ({status})");
}

Reference

GdPictureDocumentUtilities Class
GdPictureDocumentUtilities Members