Announcement: Document Toolkit for Silverlight
Today I have released a preview of the Document Toolkit for Silverlight. Document Toolkit is a fast, feature-rich and 100% client-only XPS document viewer library for Silverlight 2 and 3.
Do you need to incorporate Word, PowerPoint, PDF, or any other document type into your Silverlight application? Then Document Toolkit may just be the right tool for you.
The Document Toolkit preview demonstrates some of the features of the upcoming Document Toolkit. Document Toolkit will be available for purchase later this month (April 2009).
Go to the Document Toolkit Preview.
Published: March 31, 2009
I want it :-)
That looks really impressive. I am looking forward to the release.
-Scott
Any thought about SharePoint integration, or would plugging SP document URIs into your API work?
Very cool! Any chance of getting a pre-release version to play around with?
Awesome. Looks like it's exactly what I've been waiting for.
A downloadable beta version would be great.
Greg: I'm no sharepoint expert, but when documents are converted to XPS (on-the-fly), you will be able to view them in silverlight
Mike & Ingmar: I have scheduled RTW later this month, it will include an evaluation version that will be downloadable from this site
I download the Document Tool Kit for Silverlight and click on the sample source code. It then tried to link to VS2008 Visual Web Express. However, a popout came out and saying "Silverlight Tools is unable to open the project due to a missing patch for visual studio and ask me to download a patch from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=c22d6a7b-546f-4407-8ef6-d60c8ee221ed&displaylang=en.
I have downloaded and installed it but it remains the same problem to me. I am using Vista Home Premium. Do you know what's going on here?
Thanks
After I reinstalled the patched, the issue was still there. But after I updated some Microsoft update, then it is now OK to import the project. No more issue now.
Thanks
Ed: thanks for letting us know, good to hear its working now.
Koen,
I see that you mention being able to load PDF files. I tried to load a few different PDF files and get the following:
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.ZipException: Cannotn find central directory.....
Any ideas?
Thanks.
john: PDF files cannot be loaded directly, they need to be translated to XPS first. One easy way is to print a PDF document using the Microsoft XPS Document Writer. I do want to add on-the-fly translation of various document types to XPS, but that won't be available in the upcoming version