How to Create C# Windows PDF Viewer

C#.NET PDF Viewer for Windows Allows for Displaying PDF Files in WinForms Application

C#.NET Windows PDF Viewer is a .NET component completely built in the managed Visual C#. It enables C# developers to display and interact with PDF files in WinForms applications. This Windows PDF Viewer contains many functions for viewing & printing PDF files, rotating PDF files, making rich annotations on PDF documents etc.

Using our C#.NET PDF Viewer for Windows Forms, there is no need to install any external PDF viewer on the end user's machine for directly displaying PDF documents in the Windows Forms applications because our PDF Viewer is a totally native WinForms control. This is a significant advantage compared with other Windows PDF Viewers. Another advantage is that a royalty-free developer license is granted for this C#.NET Windows PDF Viewer so that developers have the right to use copyrighted material without the need to pay royalties.

In order to use this C#.NET Windows PDF Viewer, you should make sure that you have installed .NET Framework 2.0 or later versions. Besides, this PDF Viewer is compatible with Visual Studio 2005 and above. And it supports multiple operating systems, such as Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2000 etc.

Create Windows PDF Viewer in C# Programming

A specific guide for creating Windows PDF Viewer in C#.NET programming is provided in this part. It is easy to display and manipulate in Windows Forms with this professional C# Windows PDF Viewer and detailed C# sample code is offered on this page.

Download and unzip the free trial version of .NET Image SDK on our website.
Open your Visual Studio and create a Windows project in Visual C# language.
Drop a button from the Visual Studio Toolbox to the form.
Activate the license key in the unzipped package and copy the license txt file to your newly created project folder (usually on desktop).
Locate YiiGo.Imaging.WindowsViewer.dll from Bin folder in the unzipped package to your Visual Studio Toolbox and you can see "YGWindowsViewer" in the Toolbox.
Drag and drop the "YGWindowsViewer" to your C# WinForms project.
Double click the button and copy the C# demo code offered below.
Finally, you are able to load and view PDF documents in your WinForms application.

C# Demo Code

     private void MainForm_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
     {
     string demoFilePath = System.IO.Path.Combine(Application.StartupPath, 
                       
    "YGwindowsformsviewer.pdf");
     if (System.IO.File.Exists(demoFilePath))
     {
     pdfViewer1.LoadFile(demoFilePath);
     }
     }

Why Choose Our C# Windows PDF Viewer

There are many kinds of C# Windows PDF Viewer in the market and some people are confused about how to choose a suitable PDF Viewer. When choosing a Windows PDF Viewer, developers often take its compatibility, functions and quality into consideration. Our C#.NET Windows PDF Viewer is recommended by many developers due to the following aspects.

Our C#.NET Windows PDF Viewer is an advanced C#.NET control that enables quick PDF document viewing in WinForms application.
It contains functionalities that can be embedded within .NET Windows Forms applications to view, manipulate, process and print PDF documents.
With our C#.NET Windows PDF Viewer, it is able to display PDF documents from both local files and byte streams using C# class.
We offer free trial version of C#.NET Windows PDF Viewer online for testing so that the quality is guaranteed.
We provide detailed tutorial with C# sample code to help users create Windows PDF Viewer in C#.NET programming.
Developer licenses provided by us are royalty-free and permanent.

Our C#.NET Windows PDF Viewer seamlessly integrates with our other C#.NET PDF products. If you want to open PDF files on the web with your browser, you can download our C# PDF Web Viewer. For users who want to convert PDF files to other file formats, the C#.NET Image Conversion SDK is a good choice. It supports converting PDF files to Tiff, Word, Jpeg and so on.

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