VB Win Form And PDF

[HalaszJ]

Hello,

Kinda new to programming with VB WinForms, I am by trade a C language guy.

My question is, I have a form, that passes parameters to a crystal report, then saves it as a pdf. That works fine.

What I want to do is, then when the user wants, to allow them to view the pdf that was created. So I guess my question is, how do I create something that will allow me to view a pdf inside a winform?

Thanks
J.

 

[RiverGuy]

The easiest way I can think of would be to add a web browser control to your form, and direct that control to the .pdf.

 

[HalaszJ]

Wow, that seems a little extreme, I dont want to bloat this code too much and at the same time make it scalable.

 

[RiverGuy]

I wouldn't think that the browser control would add that much overhead, but I've never put much thought into it. If you can find an Adobe active x viewer control, that would be the way to go. I checked in my toolbox and their appears to be one such control. It looks as though you set the src property with your pdf file name.