adding acrobat control programatically

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Khadim

greetings,

i am trying to develop an application which is supposed to show pdf. i
have added the activeX control from the acrobat in my application.
everything was working fine, until i got to test it on another system
which had acrobat 6.0 installed.... there my application gave error
while loading. I have acrobat 7.0.
the solution i this is to get acrobat contorl programatically and not
through adding components at design time.
i belive solution is somewhere in these lines of code, but am unable to
use it properly....

AcrobatType = Type.GetTypeFromCLSID("AcroPDF");
object o =Activator.CreateInstance (AcrobatType);

looking for guidance,
 
Khadim,

What you need to do is create a class that derives from AxHost. Then,
from your constructor, you have to call the constructor of the base class,
passing the CLSID of the control you want to host.

You can then add this control to your application. However, any of the
properties/methods exposed by the adobe active x control specifically will
not be exposed. You can access the underlying COM object through the GetOcx
method, but you will have to cast it to the appropriate COM interface on the
object. If between versions, the interfaces are not the same, you will have
to switch on the version number for each call to the interface.

Hope this helps.
 
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