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How to add submit form action to pdf with pdf sdk in C# using ByteScout PDF Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to add submit form action to pdf with pdf sdk in C#

Source code documentation samples give simple and easy method to install a needed feature into your application. What is ByteScout PDF Suite? It is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript. It can help you to add submit form action to pdf with pdf sdk in your C# application.

This prolific sample source code in C# for ByteScout PDF Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to add submit form action to pdf with pdf sdk. This C# sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Use of ByteScout PDF Suite in C# is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace SubmitFormActionExample
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to submit or reset form.
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Create new document
            Document pdfDocument = new Document();
            pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo";
            pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            // Add page
            Page page = new Page(PaperFormat.A4);
            pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page);

            // Create sample form

            Font font = new Font(StandardFonts.Times, 14);
            Brush brush = new SolidBrush();
            // EditBox
            EditBox editBox = new EditBox(20, 20, 100, 25, "editBox1");
            editBox.Text = "editBox1";
            page.Annotations.Add(editBox);
            // CheckBox
            CheckBox checkBox = new CheckBox(20, 60, 15, 15, "checkBox1");
            page.Annotations.Add(checkBox);
            page.Canvas.DrawString("CheckBox", font, brush, 45, 60);

            // Add Submit button
            PushButton submitButton = new PushButton(20, 120, 80, 25, "buttonSubmit");
            submitButton.Caption = "Submit";
            page.Annotations.Add(submitButton);
            // Add action
            SubmitFormAction submitAction = new SubmitFormAction(new Uri("http://login.live.com"));
            submitAction.SubmitFormat = SubmitDataFormat.HTML;
            submitAction.SubmitMethod = SubmitMethod.Get;
            submitAction.Fields.Add(editBox);
            submitAction.Fields.Add(checkBox);
            submitButton.OnActivated = submitAction;

            // Add Reset button
            PushButton resetButton = new PushButton(120, 120, 80, 25, "butonReset");
            resetButton.Caption = "Reset";
            page.Annotations.Add(resetButton);
            // Add action
            ResetFormAction resetAction = new ResetFormAction();
            resetAction.Fields.Add(editBox);
            resetAction.Fields.Add(checkBox);
            resetButton.OnActivated = resetAction;
            
            // Save document to file
            pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf");

            // Cleanup 
            pdfDocument.Dispose();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}