pinvoke VS CefSharp

Hooks are a low-level Win 32 API and are not directly exposed from the BCL, so you either need to write your own P/Invoke code (maybe using something like https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke)

To add to the pile of solutions for this: https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke

I'm using the PInvoke libraries (cf. https://github.com/dotnet/pinvoke/). And if my mouse hovers a split of a second over PInvoke.User32 or even worse PInvoke.Kernel32, VS will freeze for 2 minutes trying to render the very big summary of those classes.

I dont want to state the obvious but of course there is CefSharp .. But of course thats pretty heavy duty as you end shipping a headless version of Chrome in your app, but it can do anything a browser can do (of course it can, its Chrome), including exectuting a JavaScript string on the fly and getting a response. Because its Chrome you evenn have access the the dev tool and everything like that. But the other suggestions might be better suited as they might be more lightweight.

Two options: Either use an embedded browser you can control programmatically like CefSharp (https://cefsharp.github.io/) or spawn a real browser and use sendkeys() to control the browser by emulating user input.

Chrome Runtime discussion in CefSharp repository.

I always use https://cefsharp.github.io/

grocy-desktop doesn't do any logging on purpose (CefSharp is the web browser component used).

Haven’t seen anyone suggest this, but an option would be to use https://github.com/cefsharp/CefSharp and basically render some html, open it in chromium and use the print feature. It does a pretty decent job. It may not be a solution for heavy loads, as it was demanding quite a lot of resources for such a “basic” task.

cefsharp/CefSharp (C#): .NET (WPF and Windows Forms) bindings for the Chromium Embedded Framework