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V24.2

RichEditControl.LoadDocument(Byte[], DocumentFormat, String) Method

SECURITY NOTE

Downloading documents passed into the LoadDocument method may create security issues. Review the following help topic and learn how to spot, analyze, and prohibit unwanted download requests:

Suppress Control Requests to Download Data from External URLs

Loads a document in the specified format from a byte array. You can use this method to load HTML documents with connected files.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.v24.2.dll

Declaration

public bool LoadDocument(
    byte[] buffer,
    DocumentFormat format,
    string sourceUri
)

Parameters

Name Type Description
buffer Byte[]

A byte array that contains document data.

format DocumentFormat

An enumeration member that specifies the format of the loaded document.

sourceUri String

The document’s URI. You can use this parameter to load files associated with an HTML document.

Returns

Type Description
Boolean

true if the document was successfully loaded; otherwise, false.

Remarks

If a document has a different format than the format parameter specifies, the RichEditControl.InvalidFormatException event fires.

Tip

Use the RichEditControl.DocumentLoaded event to determine when you can safely modify the document model. Handle the DocumentLayout.DocumentFormatted event to check document layout-related data and objects.

See Also