Displaying A PDF Document Inside A Silverlight UserControl

Question

Hello Everyone,

          I am working on a project in Silverlight 2.0. I need to display a PDF document in a Silverlight Usercontrol. How can I do that?Please help! Thanks in advance.

Reny Mathew

Answer 1

I do believe that you're going to have to float an iframe on top of your SL app to achieve this.  AFAIK there is no way to instantiate another browser plugin in SL.

Answer 2

Thanks Chandler for your response.  How can I make an IFrame float inside a Silverlight User Control. I am totally new to this technology. Can you give me some examples?

Thanks, Reny.

Answer 3

Same as you use IFrame in any HTML page. Set style.position = "absolute" and position it over the Silverlight control. It won't be inside a Silverlight control but on top of it.

You can put a IFrame tag on your TextPage.HTML/ASPX page.

<IFRAme id="MyIFrame" style="position:absolute; width:someWidth; height:someHeight; visibility:hidden" /> 

 

From your silverlight code you can access to the IFrame and set property:

            HtmlElement m = HtmlPage.Document.GetElementById("MyIFrame");          
            if (m != null)
            {

                m.SetAttribute("src", "URL of your pdf")
                m.SetStyleAttribute("left", x);
                m.SetStyleAttribute("top", y);
                m.SetStyleAttribute("visibility", "visible");
            }

 

Answer 4

I do this exact operation with another activeX control. The one thing that took me a bit to figure out was, the control itself has an IsWindowless parameter that had to be set to -1, in this case, to allow the control to float over the silverlight control.

For displaying a pdf, I actually pop open another window with a content-disposition header to automatically download.  I may try this method for displaying though. 

Will this method allow the user to print the pdf individually?

Answer 5

 Yes, I forgot to mention you need to set silverlight object windowless parameter to true in order to have HTML element float over the silverlight control.

<object data="data:application/x-silverlight," type="application/x-silverlight-2-b1" width="100%" height="100%"> 

<param name="windowless" value="true" /> 

<param ../> 

I never tested print function for IFrame. But I have a EarthLive Map been put into a floating DIV. When I click the browser print, it will only print the Map. But the controls inside Silverlight control are not shown .

 

Answer 6

Excellent, I will have to try this out.  Adding it to my ever growing list of improvements for v2 of our website.

Thanks!

Answer 7

Excellent, I will have to try this out.  Adding it to my ever growing list of improvements for v2 of our website.

Thanks!

 

I should mention I'm not sure the printout is what you want. In my case, the Map is not full screen. So when print, even it's the only thing shown in the printout, but it still not full page. The rest of the area is just blank.

Answer 8

Thanks guys, I got it working :)

Answer 9

CAn you send me sample codes. [e-mail]

Answer 10

Hello Reny,

 I have been working on same issue. Can you please send code for this

 Thanks in Advance

Regards 

Shilpi

Answer 11

Hello Reny, I have been working on same issue. Can you please send code for this Thanks in Advance Regards Shilpi

Answer 12

If you want to place it comfortably and properly into your Silverlight's page layout (i.e. resize it etc.), then there's a free HtmlHost control for Silverlight at

 

http://www.divelements.co.uk/silverlight/tools.aspx

 

with which you can load Html or anything the browser can display, i.e. also PDFs if Adobe's plugin installed. It of course also works with an iframe underneath but takes care of many quirks that come along with it and I have struggled with myself.

Answer 13

Thanks guys, I got it working :)

Hey, i also doing something that need to float a html/aspx page over a silverlight control. can u send me your code? thanks

Answer 14

 If you or your company can afford:

http://www.amyuni.com/silverlight/article.php

Above link has DLL that will enable your Silverlight application to open pdf

right in your Silverlight app.

Answer 15

 hello dude,

the iframe works fine on http websites.

but as soon as you switch to an https website other page disappears and only the page in iframe is displayed.

can you please help me with this dude!!!

Answer 16

 hey renny

           How u got pdf document inside silverlight user control... im new to this silveright 4.. pls give me more details... :) [e-mail]

Answer 17

 

PDFTron SilverDox will allow you to view and markup you PDFs in Silverlight 4+:

http://www.pdftron.com/silverdox/samplecode.html

Answer 18

hi

i have one problem regarding your post , i have implemented and it is working files on my local pc but when i deploy with same application on localhost then it is given me error "

HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found

The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

Module	IIS Web Core
Notification	MapRequestHandler
Handler	StaticFile
Error Code	0x80070002

Requested URL	http://localhost:80/UploadedFiles/00A00A/CHATABBA193309251/DEMOGRAPHIC/04 User Profile.pdf
Physical Path	C:\inetpub\wwwroot\UploadedFiles\00A00A\CHATABBA193309251\DEMOGRAPHIC\04 User Profile.pdf
Logon Method	Anonymous
Logon User	Anonymous

"

so can you pls gide me what can i do to solve this error .

thanks

Nilesh Sathvara