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Displaying a pdf file from Winform

Asked 2010-02-08T07:34:00.223
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I'm just creating a simple calculator in C# (windows form)

I've created a "User Help" which is a pdf file, what I want is to display that pdf file if the user clicks on the "Help" button in the WinForm. If assumed that Adobe reader is pre-installed on the user's machine....

How to open the pdf file on button click in winForm?

I don't plan to provide this pdf file on hard disk of user. Which means that I have to embed this pdf into the calculator (winForm) and have to display it on the button click.

Kindly guide me with the best practise for displaying an embedded file in winForm.

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It might be possible to embed Adobe's Reader in your form as an ActiveX component. But that means you'll have to make sure Reader is installed on the client machine for that to work.

In case it doesn't have to be strictly embedded you can just launch the PDF file and let whatever viewer the user has open it.

answered 2010-02-08T07:55:41.130

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