Announcing Document Toolkit for LightSwitch
As of today Document Toolkit, a document viewer for Silverlight, is now available as LightSwitch Extension. Document Toolkit for LightSwitch adds document viewing capabilities to your LightSwitch application. Documents of type XPS, PDF *), and Microsoft Office documents such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint are supported.
Document Toolkit for LightSwitch is available as extension in the Visual Studio Online gallery. You need to have LightSwitch Beta 2 installed to work with this product. Document Toolkit for LightSwitch is a beta product.
Learn more
The following tutorials provide step-by-step instructions on installing and using Document Toolkit for LightSwitch.
Tutorial: Installing Document Toolkit for LightSwitch
Tutorial: Using the Document Viewer
Tutorial: How To Create And Use A Table of Documents
For more details about Document Toolkit see http://firstfloorsoftware.com/DocumentToolkit
About Visual Studio LightSwitch
Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way for developers of all skill levels to develop business applications for the desktop and cloud. See http://msdn.com/lightswitch for more details.
About Document Toolkit
Document Toolkit for Silverlight is a fast, feature-rich and 100% client-only document viewer library for Silverlight. Document Toolkit offers a range of features that enables easy document access and document display in Silverlight applications.
*) PDF support is experimental and may not be used in production environments.
Published: May 18, 2011
The Document Toolkit for LightSwitch is Agreat tool !!!
what about tif format ?
is this tool support if not - then when will it does ?
Thanks alot.
Hi Alon
We're looking into adding TIFF support, but it won't happen any time soon.. As far as XPS documents with TIFF images is concerned; you can convert those images to jpg or png using the XpsConvert project in the Document Toolkit Extensions project (http://documenttoolkit.codeplex.com).