Class Installation

Global installation and setup preferences for all instances of IronPDF

Inheritance
System.Object
Installation
Namespace: IronPdf
Assembly: IronPdf.dll
Syntax
public static class Installation : Object

Fields

SendAnonymousAnalyticsAndCrashData

Opt in or out of sending anonymous usage statistics about IronPDF usage and performance to help us improve the product and developer experience.

Usage statistics are never sent in commercially deployed projects (when a license key is applied), only during development usage.

Declaration
public static bool SendAnonymousAnalyticsAndCrashData
Field Value
Type Description
System.Boolean

Properties

AutomaticallyDownloadNativeBinaries

Set to True to let IronPDF try to download missing NativeBinaries from the internet at a runtime.

Declaration
public static bool AutomaticallyDownloadNativeBinaries { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Boolean
Remarks

Useful for IronPdf.Slim

ChromeBrowserCachePath

Disk cache path for chrome browser instances

Declaration
public static string ChromeBrowserCachePath { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.String

ChromeBrowserLimit

Maximum number of concurrent browsers when using the Chrome renderer

Declaration
public static int ChromeBrowserLimit { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Int32

ChromeGpuMode

Chrome renderer GPU compatibility mode. In special environment like Docker or Cloud Service please use ChromeGpuModes.Disabled

Declaration
public static ChromeGpuModes ChromeGpuMode { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
ChromeGpuModes

ConnectionType

Get the current connection type.

Declaration
public static Nullable<IronPdfConnectionType> ConnectionType { get; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Nullable<IronPdfConnectionType>

CustomDeploymentDirectory

Custom deployment directory for renderer native binaries.

Declaration
public static string CustomDeploymentDirectory { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.String

EnableWebSecurity

Enable web security for Chrome renderer. Disabled by default.

Enabling web security will disable operations which require local disk access or cross-origin requests.

Useful when injecting untrusted HTML from users.

Declaration
public static bool EnableWebSecurity { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Boolean

IronPdfEngineVersion

Declaration
public static string IronPdfEngineVersion { get; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.String

LinuxAndDockerDependenciesAutoConfig

If true The necessary package dependencies for IronPDF rendering will we automatically installed to Docker and Debian / Ubuntu Linux deployments.

Applies only to IronPDF for .Net Core.

This will take a few minutes the next time you run IronPDF. Watch the Visual Studio "Output" window for progress.

Set this to false if manual Docker / Linux setup is more convenient: https://ironpdf.com/docs/questions/docker-linux/

Declaration
public static bool LinuxAndDockerDependenciesAutoConfig { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Boolean
See Also
IronSoftware.Deployment.DeploymentEngine.SkipInstallCommands

SingleProcess

Forces Chrome renderer to perform everything in the current process, rather than using subprocesses

Declaration
public static bool SingleProcess { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Boolean
Remarks

Warning! This feature is experimental and unstable. Useful for environments where execution permissions are not possible.

SkipInitialization

Set to True to skip certain initialization routines, e.g. Cef initialization

Declaration
public static bool SkipInitialization { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Boolean
Remarks

Useful for certain environments which have persistence, e.g. IIS or web apps

SkipShutdown

Set to True to skip certain shutdown routines, e.g. Cef shutdown

Declaration
public static bool SkipShutdown { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.Boolean
Remarks

Useful for certain environments which have persistence, e.g. IIS or web apps

TempFolderPath

The temporary folder path which temporary files and rendering engine DLLs will be deployed to where necessary. The default location is the system temp folder which is appropriate for most use cases.

Declaration
public static string TempFolderPath { get; set; }
Property Value
Type Description
System.String
Exceptions
Type Condition
System.ArgumentException

value is a zero-length string, contains only white space, or contains one or more of the invalid characters defined in System.IO.Path.GetInvalidPathChars. -or- The system could not retrieve the absolute path.
System.Security.SecurityException

The caller does not have the required permissions.
System.ArgumentNullException

value is null.
System.NotSupportedException

value contains a colon (":") that is not part of a volume identifier (for example, "c:&quot;).
System.IO.PathTooLongException

The specified path, file name, or both exceed the system-defined maximum length.
IronPdfProductException

The property TempFolderPath is already initialized.

Methods

CleanupTempImages(Nullable<TimeSpan>)

Method to remove temporary images from TempFolderPath

If you used a customTempFolderPath then set TempFolderPath to point towards your deployment directory before you call this cleanup method.

Declaration
public static void CleanupTempImages(Nullable<TimeSpan> expirationTime = null)
Parameters
Type Name Description
System.Nullable<System.TimeSpan> expirationTime

Time from last access for files to delete. All files are deleted by default.

ConnectToIronPdfHost(IronPdfConnectionConfiguration)

Connect to an IronPdf server using the specified connection parameters

Declaration
public static void ConnectToIronPdfHost(IronPdfConnectionConfiguration configuration)
Parameters
Type Name Description
IronPdfConnectionConfiguration configuration

IronPdf server connection parameters
See Also

Initialize()

Initializes IronPDF rendering engines immediately to avoid startup time on your first render.

Declaration
public static void Initialize()