PDFDoc Scout |
PDFDoc Scout library - Sample
Getting
started with PDFDoc Scout library and Visual Basic.NET:
"Hello,
World!" example
You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdocscout_vb_net.zip This page contains step-by-step tutorial that will teach you how to create PDF document file in Visual Basic.NET application using PDFDoc Scout library. 1)
Install PDFDoc Scout library
on your computer and run Microsoft
Visual Studio .NET
Go to New
menu and click Project...
to create new
project as shown on screenshot below:
![]() You will see New
Project Wizard.
Select Windows
Application
in Visual Basic
Projects group:
![]() 2) VB.NET
will create
a new project:
![]() 3) To
use PDFDoc Scout
in Visual
Basic.NET we
have to add reference to PDFDoc
Scout library
for current VB.NET project. Select Project
in the main menu and click Add
Reference command:
![]() Switch to COM
tab and find
PDFDoc Scout
library in
the list of available COM objects:
![]() Now click on Select
button to add
reference to PDFDoc
Scout and click
OK
![]() 4) Now
add the code that will create "Hello, World!" PDF document.
Double-click Form1
to create Form1_Load
event procedure:
![]() The source code editor
window will be appear:
![]() 5)
The code that generate "Hello, World!" PDF document is below.
Generated pdf document file will be saved into "c:\HelloWorld.PDF"
file. You can simply copy-and-paste this code into your project.
Dim PDFDoc As PDFDocScout.PDFDocument PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "c:\HelloWorld.pdf"
' set output filename for generated PDF document Hint:
You can simply copy
the source code from the snippet above and paste into Visual
Basic.NET code
editor window:
6)
Press F5 to
run the application (you can also use "Debug"
| "Start"
menu command) and Visual Basic.NET will run the application:
![]() The application will
generate pdf document file and will save it as "HelloWorld.PDF" file
in root folder of C:\ drive.
You can view generated
PDF document using Adobe Reader or another application
that is able to open and display PDF documents.
You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdocscout_vb_net.zip
"Hello, World!" quick start step-by-step tutorials: |
|
|
||