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RichEditControl.LoadDocument(Stream) 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 from the stream.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.v24.1.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.Win.PivotGrid, DevExpress.Win.RichEdit, DevExpress.Win.TreeMap

Declaration

public virtual bool LoadDocument(
    Stream stream
)

Parameters

Name Type Description
stream Stream

A Stream object that is the stream used to load a document.

Returns

Type Description
Boolean

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

Remarks

The source stream can be non-seekable. In this case, the stream is buffered automatically. After loading the document, the stream remains open.

The format of the document loaded from a stream is detected automatically by the built-in IFormatDetectorService service implementation. The following formats are detected:

  • DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTM, HTML, MHT, XML, EPUB;
  • ODT - non-encrypted files only.

Plain text cannot be detected automatically. To load a plain text document, use another method override with the document format DocumentFormat.PlainText as a parameter.

If the format detection fails or the passed stream is null, the RichEditControl.InvalidFormatException event fires.

Determine a moment when the document model can be safely modified using the RichEditControl.DocumentLoaded event. Handle the DocumentLayout.DocumentFormatted event to check the loaded document’s layout.

View Example: How to load a document into the RichEditControl

using (Stream stream = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetManifestResourceStream("LoadDocumentExample.TextWithImagesODT"))
{
    richEditControl1.LoadDocument(stream);
}

Tip

Use LoadDocument method overloads which explicit format definition to improve performance.

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