PDF Viewer Control for Lightswitch

Question

Hi,

I have been searching everywhere for a PDF viewer control for Lightswitch... (I am using VS 2012).

I am aware that the Document Toolkit  is out there and I have tested it and it works really well for most types, but it just wont render my PDFs. Incidentally my PDFs are engineering drawings generated from a CAD package. 

My current solution, witch isn't ideal for me, is, using the web browser control to display a PDF on a hosted directory thru IIS. Because I need a PDF linked to every single record on the table, it means I have to manage the URL paths to each PDF individually for every record. I would much prefer to store the PDF in a binary field in the table as I can manage it much more easily and it seems to be a cleaner method. I don't need any fancy mark-up, comments, etc.... Just a zoom in and out and rotate...

I am hoping that I can use a silverlight PDF viewer control and manually bind it to my entity with the stored PDF. I am not an experienced developer and don't have any experience of XAML, other than binding a chart to my data. I really hope that there is some solution out there for me. 

Any Ideas let me know...

Regards

Steve

Answer 1

Today, Component One have released a PDF viewer control adapted from their silverlight studio controls. So the search is over... (If you have the cash that is!)

http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/PDFViewerLightSwitch/

Answer 2

The viewer is to expensive and i cannot just buy their pdf viewer. Any alternate solutions where i can buy a extension for only viewing pdfs ?

Answer 3

I need a simple pdf viewer for lightswitch any idea how i could get hold of something like this ? The main aim for this viewer would be to only view pdf documents.

Answer 4

Maybe one of these links might prove helpful:

View PDF, XPS, Office, … in Silverlight!

Silverlight 4.0 PDF Viewer

PDF for Silverlight

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Answer 5

Thanx but i found a affordable pdf viewer extension only 10$ component one products is for me to expensive and i will not even use half the controls http://store.payloadz.com/details/1043768-software-developer-lightswitch-pdf-document-viewer-extension.html did the trick for me :) happy to say. I must admit these component designers should focus more on poor market as well they always expect one man band developers to pay insane prices for simple controls :)

Answer 6

Yes, being another one-man-band myself, I know EXACTLY what you mean.

I'm glad you found an inexpensive solution. I'll a look at it & add it to my list of products.

Thanks for coming back to let everyone know about what you found.

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