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DocumentPreviewControl Class

A control that you can use to publish (preview, print, and export) documents in WPF applications.

Namespace: DevExpress.Xpf.Printing

Assembly: DevExpress.Xpf.Printing.v24.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Wpf.Printing

#Declaration

public class DocumentPreviewControl :
    DocumentViewerControl,
    IParameterPanelHandler,
    IDocumentPreviewUI

The following members return DocumentPreviewControl objects:

#Remarks

The DocumentPreviewControl allows you to choose between a Ribbon or Bars toolbar layout.

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Do the following to create a Print Preview to publish documents:

  1. Assign a document source to the DocumentPreviewControl’s DocumentSource property.

    The following types of document sources are supported:

    • An object that implements the IReport interface.
    • An object that implements the ILink interface.
    • A Stream that contains report document data.
    • A string that contains a path to a file that stores report document data (a PRNX file).
  2. If you use an IReport or ILink object as a document source, call the document source’s CreateDocument method or set the DocumentPreviewControl’s RequestDocumentCreation property to True to generate a preview.

The following code snippets (auto-collected from DevExpress Examples) contain references to the DocumentPreviewControl class.

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