How to display PDF or Word's DOC/DOCX inside WinForms window?

Question

I'm wondering what's the best option to display a pdf/doc document inside form in my c# winforms app.

This control should only allow do display preview. Edtiting documents should be forbidden.

I'm looking for free solution.

The best option would be to attach a few separate *.dlls to solution but it's not a requirement.

Answer 1

I wrote something that can do this for Word Documents by taking advantage of the WebBrowser control for WinForms. Hopefully it might do you some good:

http://codinglight.blogspot.com/2008/10/simple-docbrowser-control.html

Answer 2

Consider using the preview handlers for Vista, Windows 7. I used the code provided by Brad Smith (with corrections from the comments).

http://www.brad-smith.info/blog/archives/79 - Hosting Preview Handlers in Windows Forms Applications