Create a new web-site project in Visual Studio

Enter name of new web-site and click OK

Right-click on project in Solution Explorer and select "Add Reference" command in popup menu invoked:

Browse for "ASPManifestHelpers.dll" (you can find it in ZIP with sample code) and select it and click OK to add reference:

Then create folder named "PDFDocScout.assembly" by right-clicking on project in Solution Explorer and selecting "New Folder" command:

Type name of the folder "PDFDocScout.assembly" and click OK to create a folder

Now you should add the following files into created folder:

PDFDocScout.dll
PDFDocScout.assembly.manifest

If you have DEMO version and so have PDFDocScoutDemo.DLL file then rename it to the PDFDocScout.DLL

To add files right-click on project in Solution Explorer and select "Add Existing Item" command:

File selection dialog will appear - select PDFDocScout.dll and PDFDocScout.assembly.manifest files (hold CTRL and click on each file to select) and click "Add" button to add files to the project:

Now add webapp.manifest file to the project: right-click on project in Solution Explorer and select "Add Existing Item..." command:

File selection dialog will appear. Select webapp.manifest file and click "Add":

Start project by clicking "Start Debugging" button as shown below:

Visual Studio will suuggest to add new Web.config file. Answer Yes as shown below:

Close Internet Explorer window and switch back to Visual Studio

Web.config file will appear in the list of project files:

Double click on web.config file

Visual Studio will open editor with Web.config file in it.

Add the following lines after <system.web> line:

<httpModules >
<add name = "HttpModule_Manifest" type="MazeComputer.AspManifestHelpers.HttpModule_Manifest, AspManifestHelpers" />
</httpModules >

 

So you will see a code like on a screenshot below:

Now add reference to PDFDocScout.dll file by doing the following: right-click on project name and select "Add Reference" command in right-click menu:



Browse /PDFDocScout.assembly/ and select PDFDocScout.dll file and click "OK" button to add reference

Now you will see that 2 new files appear in the list of files for project:
Interop.PDFDocScout.dll and stdole.dll (see screenshot below):

Finally our web-site project is ready for coding PDF generation using PDFDoc Scout library!

Double click on Default.aspx.cs file in Solution Explorer:

Editor window will appear with "Default.aspx.cs" file in it

First of all add this code to the beginning of the file:

using System;
using PDFDocScout;
using Page=System.Web.UI.Page;

 

Add code to generate PDF using PDFDocScout in "Page_Load" function as shown below:

try

{

// create new PDFDoc object

PDFDocument PDFDoc = new PDFDocumentClass();

// initalize library

PDFDoc.InitLibrary("demo", "demo");

// set in-memory mode

// set to True to generate PDF document in memory without any files on disk to output it to end-user to browser

PDFDoc.GenerateInMemoryFile = true;

// start PDF document generation

PDFDoc.BeginDocument();

// add text to current page

PDFDoc.Page.AddText("Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15);

// close PDF document generation

PDFDoc.EndDocument();

// get size of generated in-memory PDF document

int Size = PDFDoc.BinaryImageSize;

// create new buffer with size equal to generated pdf document file

byte[] buffer = new byte[Size + 1];

// get in-memory pdf file as byte stream

Array MemoryImage = (Array) PDFDoc.BinaryImage;

// copy byte stream into buffer

Array.Copy(MemoryImage, buffer, Size);

// clear http output

Response.Clear();

// set the content type to PDF

Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";

// add content type header

Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/pdf");

// set the content disposition

Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline;filename=helloworld.pdf");

// write the buffer with pdf file to the output

Response.BinaryWrite(buffer);

Response.End();

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

if (!(ex is System.Threading.ThreadAbortException))

System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);

}

Press F5 to start web-site project and PDF file will be generated and you’ll see PDF generated by your web-site project:

Generated PDF document file opened in Adobe Reader: