I want download file from server. I know how to do this using WCF/RIA services. How can I do this like in web site. For example: I click button and It will appear standard dialog browser window to download file.
Use the Hyperlink control and link it to a server-side URL. This is what I've done in my app to avoid the whole generic save file prompt restrictions of the default SL sandbox.
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I wrote a sample servlet which can serve by giving an option to download a pdf file. I want to download that pdf file in to my cn1 app through webBrowser component. Later I want to view that pdf in the browser itself. If possible can you share sample example.
Use the Util.downloadToFilesystemAPI giving a path you generate into the app home from the FileSystemStorage class.
Once download is complete you can just use Display.execute with that path.
I have a webbrowser control in my application that is used to display pdf files that have been created in iTextSharp and are stored locally on the hard drive.
I would like to be able to navigate the file (next, previous, first, last, toc) from my application rather than using the inbuilt nav of the reader in the browser.
I have seen that you can navigate to specific pages by using
Browser.Navigate("filename.pdf#page=?);
This works the first time but when trying to navigate to a different page, it makes the browser disappear completely with no errors. However, I can reload the file without problem if I don't have the #page=? suffix on the file url though. Any ideas on this?
Alternatively, is there anyway in iTextSharp of adding something to the file to allow for it to be navigated from an external command?
All the official parameters that can be used to navigate through a PDF using parameters in the query string after the ? character are listed in a document published by Adobe: Parameters for Opening PDF Files
You already mentioned the page parameter. Another option could be using named destinations: nameddest=destination. In this case, you need to add the anchor with name destination to the file using iTextSharp.
Note that not all viewers implement these parameters. Adobe supports them in Adobe Reader and in the Adobe Reader plug-in, but there is no guarantee that they will work in pdf.js (Firefox), Pdfium (Google Chrome),... If your browser disappears when using an open parameter, you may have hit a bug in the browser or the viewer plug-in that causes the browser to crash. iTextSharp nor iText can crash a browser ;-)
There are no other ways you can navigate a PDF from an external application. The only thing you can do, is to add JavaScript to the PDF so that it always opens at the same page. This is done using an open action. I don't think this solves your problem as it would mean that you have to change the PDF file every time you want it to open at a different page.
I'm trying to send a PDF file from a WCF to silverlight client. PDF is generated by DevExpress XtraReports (in method XtraReport CreateReport(string reportTypeName, RootGenericReportParameterContainer reportInformation)).
Acually PDF is saved somewhere on clients computer after choosing save path in file save dialog - DevExpress takes care of everything - but I don't have a clue how to open the PDF in new tab in browser.
And here is another problem. Silverlight 4 has no access to local file system right? So information about local PDF location is useless. Maybe it would be better to save the PDF in WCF and send a link to it to the client - but how?
I would first question why you need to send the file to the Silverlight client. Get rid of that requirement and the solution becomes much simpler. Silverlight can provide a link that opens a new browser tab. That link would be handled by the web domain, processing it as an HttpHandler, generating the PDF file for the browser. Your PDF url doesn't have to reference a physical file, you can still generate it on request, handle querystring values, etc... Lots of different ways to do this.
Seems that the question isn't really about DevExpress or Silverlight - you're just looking to open a [document of some kind] in a new tab. Each browser natively handles things differently, and users can change tab handling to whatever they want. And (as you mentioned) once the user has downloaded the file, you no longer control it.
Your best bet (and the way I do it) is probably to have a link pointing to a handler/file using "target='_blank' " in the anchor tag on the webpage. From the server side, you would want to set the "Content-Disposition" header to "Inline" to indicate to the browser that the document should be displayed in place instead of downloaded ("Attachment").
I'm developing a Windows Application in C sharp.using a Web Browser control to Login to the Https Site and Download the List of files. I'm able to login in to the Site and I'm able to Navigate to the Page where files are listed to be downloaded. When I try Downloading the file using the file URL and trying to Navigate using Web Browser Control a Pop - Up appears asking whether to Open or Save or cancel. How to handle this Pop up and I'm stuck here.
Any Answers are appreciated.
Thanks,
Vinay.
If all you are trying to do is download a file, you might be better off using webRequest.Create("Url") instead of the WebBrowser control. There are ways of handling authentication depending on the method the website uses.
It's best not to use the WebBrowser to download files (unless initiated by the user, who can click the save button). Instead, you can use a WebRequest to download the files from your application.
Since you said you have to log in to the website, I'm going to assume that it uses the popular method of using cookies (as opposed to HTTP Basic Auth). To get the cookies from the WebBrowser, you can use the Cookie property of the WebBrowser's Document property.
I have a windows forms application and which provides a way to search the database based on the provided value. Sometime I need to open the application through a simple html hyperlink with the search result while loading itself. There are two questions/doubts from here.
How to access the existing running windows forms application as url? If this is possible, how can I pass the argument?
If the application is not running, we have to start the application and search the value. This also has to be happened when I click the link.
Simply we can say like, if you open a website link from your outlook email, the link will be opening in existing opened default browser or it will start the new browser(if the browser is not already opened.) I want to achieve the same behavior.
Seems to be the below post is somewhat related to my queries, but this does not solve my problem.
Activate existing browser window with given URL from C# application (without triggering reload)
You can't do this. The default browser launches when you click on a link because it is set up in the registry as the default handler for hyperlinks.