Display a PDF file in a control in Visual Basic 2010

Question

I just installed Visual Basic 2010, looked through several tutorials on how to display files, but cannot find any materials on how to select and paste existing PDF files into a form. Any suggestions or pointers in the right direction would be great, thanks!

Answer 1

Just insert a browser control into your form and move it to a PDF file. That should do the trick.

Answer 2

There are not too many controls for this. In any case, this guide may be useful:

http://visualbasic.about.com/od/quicktips/qt/disppdf.htm

Answer 3

Disclaimer: I work at Atalasoft.

We are creating a GUI control that can load a bunch of image formats and an add-in to turn PDF pages into images. The GUI element (ImageViewer) is part of our free SDK ( DotImage Photo ), and you can find out about the add-on here: http://www.atalasoft.com/products/dotimage/pdf-reader