For Linux users, Microsoft offers a new Skype app, which is a web app bundled with its own Electron engine. For those of you not familiar with Electron, it is a framework for creating GUI apps which uses Node.js on the backend and Chromium as the frontend.
private async Task<List<System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage>> getPdfPageImages()
{
var results = new List<System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage>();
using (var randomAccessStream = File.Open("PieChartPdfReport.pdf", FileMode.Open).AsRandomAccessStream())
{
var pdfDocument = await PdfDocument.LoadFromStreamAsync(randomAccessStream);
for (uint i = 0; i < pdfDocument.PageCount; i++)
{
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
using (var stream = memoryStream.AsRandomAccessStream())
{
using (var page = pdfDocument.GetPage(i))
{
// Set render options
var renderOptions = new PdfPageRenderOptions
{
BackgroundColor = Colors.LightGray,
DestinationHeight = (uint)(page.Size.Height * 10)
};
await page.RenderToStreamAsync(stream); //, renderOptions);
await stream.FlushAsync();
var bitmapImage = new System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapImage();
bitmapImage.BeginInit();
//Without this, BitmapImage uses lazy initialization by default and the stream will be closed by then.
bitmapImage.CacheOption = System.Windows.Media.Imaging.BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad;
bitmapImage.StreamSource = memoryStream;
bitmapImage.EndInit();
results.Add(bitmapImage);
}
}
}
}
}
return results;
} private async void Button_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
var images = await this.getPdfPageImages();
ImagePdf.Source = images.First();
} 
A set of tslint rules for static code analysis of Angular TypeScript projects.
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