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GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET MVC Example

version 1.20.0

Build status Codacy Badge GitHub license

⚠️ This repository has moved to https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer/GroupDocs.Viewer-for-.NET/tree/master/Demos/MVC

System Requirements

  • .NET Framework 4.5
  • Visual Studio 2015

Document Viewer API for .NET MVC

GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET API allows you to view over 170 document formats including DOCX, PDF, PPT, XLS, among many others without any additional dependencies. Thanks to its flexible configuration it can be configured to view documents as images or as HTML5.

In order to demonstrate GroupDocs.Viewer for Java reach and powerful features we prepared a modern document viewer front-end web UI example. Which can be used as a standalone application or easily integrated into your project.

Note: without a license application will run in trial mode, purchase GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET license or request GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET temporary license.

Supported document Formats

Family Formats
Archive formats ZIP, TAR, BZ2, RAR, GZIP
Apple formats Numbers
PDF formats PDF, XPS, OXPS, TEX
CAD formats DXF, DWG , DWT, STL, IFC,DWF , DWFX, DGN, PLT,CF2,OBJ, HPG, IGS
Microsoft Word DOC, DOCM , DOCX, DOT, DOTM, DOTX,RTF
Microsoft Excel XLS, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, XLT, XLTM, XLTX,Excel 2003 XML,XLAM
Microsoft PowerPoint PPT, POT, POTM, POTX, PPS, PPSM, PPSX, PPTM, PPTX
Microsoft Visio VSD,VSDX,VSDM,VDW, VDX, VSDX, VSS,VSSX,VSSM,VST,VSTX, VSX, VTX,VSTM
Microsoft Project MPP, MPT,MPX
Help files CHM
Email formats EML, EMLX, MSG, NSF, MBOX, PST,OST, VCF
OpenDocument Formats ODT, ODP,FODP, ODS,FODS, OTT,OTS,ODG,FODG,OTG,OTP,SXC
Plain Text File TXT,TSV
Comma-Separated Values CSV
HyperText Markup Language HTML, MHT, MHTML, SVG,SVGZ
Extensible Markup Language XML,XML, XPS
AutoCAD Drawing File Format DGN, DWG, DXF
Image files BMP, CAL, DCX,CGM,PCL,PSB, DIB, EMF,EMZ,WEBP,DNG,CDR,CMX, GIF,
JP2, JPG,JPF,JPM,J2C,J2K,JPC,JPX,MIL, MIL, PCD, PCT, PCX, PNG,
Animated PNG, PSD,PS, RAS, TGA,TIFF,WMF,WMZ,EPS, AI
Electronic publication EPUB,MOBI,DJVU
Windows Icon ICO
Medical image files DCM
Programming Language Formats AS, AS3, ASM, BAT, C, CC, CMAKE, CPP, CS,VB, CSS, CXX, DIFF, ERB,
GROOVY, H,HAML, HH, JAVA, JS, JSON, LESS, LOG, M, MAKE, MD, ML,
MM, PHP, PL, PROPERTIES, PY, RB, RST, SASS, SCALA, SCM, SCRIPT,
SH, SML, SQL, VIM, YAML

Demo Video

Features

  • Clean, modern and intuitive design
  • Easily switchable colour theme (create your own colour theme in 5 minutes)
  • Responsive design
  • Mobile support (open application on any mobile device)
  • Support over 50 documents and image formats including DOCX, PDF, PPT, XLS
  • HTML and image modes
  • Fully customizable navigation panel
  • Open password protected documents
  • Text searching & highlighting
  • Download documents
  • Upload documents
  • Print document
  • Rotate pages
  • Zoom in/out documents without quality loss in HTML mode
  • Thumbnails
  • Smooth page navigation
  • Smooth document scrolling
  • Preload pages for faster document rendering
  • Multi-language support for displaying errors
  • Display two or more pages side by side (when zooming out)
  • Cross-browser support (Safari, Chrome, Opera, Firefox)
  • Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, MacOS)

How to run

You can run this sample by one of following methods

Build from source

Download source code from github or clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer/GroupDocs.Viewer-for-.NET-MVC

Open solution in the VisualStudio. Update common parameters in web.config and example related properties in the configuration.yml to meet your requirements.

Open http://localhost:8080/Viewer in your favorite browser

Docker image

Use docker image.

mkdir DocumentSamples
mkdir Licenses
docker run -p 8080:8080 --env application.hostAddress=localhost -v `pwd`/DocumentSamples:/home/groupdocs/app/DocumentSamples -v `pwd`/Licenses:/home/groupdocs/app/Licenses groupdocs/Viewer
## Open http://localhost:8080/Viewer in your favorite browser.

Configuration

For all methods above you can adjust settings in configuration.yml. By default in this sample will lookup for license file in ./Licenses folder, so you can simply put your license file in that folder or specify relative/absolute path by setting licensePath value in configuration.yml.

Viewer configuration options

Option Type Default value Description
filesDirectory String DocumentSamples Files directory path. Indicates where uploaded and predefined files are stored. It can be absolute or relative path
fontsDirectory String Path to custom fonts directory.
defaultDocument String Absolute path to default document that will be loaded automaticaly.
preloadPageCount Integer 0 Indicate how many pages from a document should be loaded, remaining pages will be loaded on page scrolling.Set 0 to load all pages at once
htmlMode Boolean true HTML rendering mode. Set false to view documents in image mode. Set true to view documents in HTML mode
zoom Boolean true Enable or disable Document zoom
search Boolean true Enable or disable document search
thumbnails Boolean true Enable thumbnails preview
rotate Boolean true Enable individual page rotation functionality
cache Boolean true Set true to enable cache
saveRotateState Boolean true If enabled it will save chages made by rotating individual pages to same file.
watermarkText String Text which will be used as a watermark

Troubleshooting

How to set custom baseURL

BaseURL is fetched from address bar however you can set custom baseURL by adding forRoot parameter at app.module.ts

Example:

ViewerModule.forRoot("http://localhost:8080")

License

The MIT License (MIT).

Please have a look at the LICENSE.md for more details

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