I'm curious as to whether a native .NET renderer for TeX/LaTeX exists. The closest match I have been able to find is a Java implementation, JMathTeX. I am tempted to port this to C#, but before I do so, I would simply like to check whether anyone is aware of a .NET implementation out there.
My current thoughts are to use MiKTeX along with dvipng to compile the TeX source and render the generated DVI as a PNG, but I'm still worrying this may incur an unacceptable amount of overhead, not to mention the need to bundle MiKTeX with the given program.
If I'm not mistaken, TeX is written in a dialect of Pascal, and when compiled today it's generally first compiled into standard C, then compiled with a C compiler to produce the final binary. It might be feasible to instead compile the original Pascal code into C# and perhaps write a wrapper around it in C# to be able to use it as a library.
Of course this is a rather large project to take on and is probably overkill for your problem at hand.