Opening an Adobe Acrobat file Using VB.NET

1 Nov 2006 9:43 PM

Bill Partridge

Hi,

I am using VB.NET 2003 and I want to open up a pdf by pressing a command
button.

How do I do this, including passing a filename as a parameter?

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Thanks

Bill Partridge

1 Nov 2006 9:51 PM

Tim Patrick

Just call Process.Start(), passing the path to the file.

Process.Start("C:\My Documents\My Acrobat File.pdf")

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> Hi,
>
> I am using VB.NET 2003 and I want to open up a pdf by pressing a
> command button.
>
> How do I do this, including passing a filename as a parameter?
>
> Bill Partridge
>

2 Nov 2006 12:15 AM

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Tim Patrick <inva***@invalid.com.invalid> wrote in

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> Just call Process.Start(), passing the path to the file.
>
> Process.Start("C:\My Documents\My Acrobat File.pdf")

There is also an embeddable ActiveX object which the OP can use if he/she
would to embed the PDF directly into an application.

1 Nov 2006 11:32 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"Bill Partridge" <BillPartri***@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> I am using VB.NET 2003 and I want to open up a pdf by pressing a command
> button.

'System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(<file name>)'.

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