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RichEditControl.LoadDocument(String, 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 from the file in the specified format. External content for HTML format is retrieved using the specified source (base) URI.

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(
    string fileName,
    DocumentFormat documentFormat,
    string sourceUri
)

Parameters

Name Type Description
fileName String

A string specifying the file to load (including the full path).

documentFormat DocumentFormat

One of the DocumentFormat enumeration members, indicating the document format.

sourceUri String

A string representing the document URI.

Returns

Type Description
Boolean

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

Remarks

If the document is in a different format than specified or the passed string is null, the RichEditControl.InvalidFormatException event fires.

The method can be used to load HTML files with external references. To load a file filename.html obtained by saving a document in HTML format from Rich Edit, set the sourceUri to filename_files:

bool result = richEdit.LoadDocument("test.htm", DocumentFormat.Html, "test_files");

Tip

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.

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