Viewing XPS Documents
Starting from Windows Vista, Microsoft introduced a new file format known as XPS that is a portable file format for documents and is useful because you can share documents without the of having installed the application that generated that kind of document because you simply need a viewer. WPF offers full support for XPS documents, also offering a DocumentViewer control that enables developers to embed XPS viewing functionalities in their applications. Support for XPS documents is provided by the ReachFramework.dll assembly (so you need to add a reference) that exposes the System.Windows.Xps.Packaging namespace. For code, you simply drag the DocumentViewer control from the toolbox onto the Window surface so that the generated ...
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