How to check pdf viewer opened pdf file or not ?

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Hai
In my windows application i will use PDF-XChnage Viewer ActiveX Control and i will call like below

VB

Call PDFxDoc.SetDevInfo("XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX", "XXXX$XXXX$XXXXXXX_XXXXXXX#")

PDFxDoc.OpenDocument(System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath & "\Temp\" + fname)

and it will open pdf document also,but i need to check PDFXDoc control have open document or not ?
if it is document is opened in pdf control i will close using following code

VB

PDFxDoc.CloseDocument(0)

but even though document is not open then i will try to close document using PDFxDoc.CloseDocument(0) ,it will show error.

So i need to check first document is open or not ? so pls tell me how check pdf control have document or not before going to close.

Note: Need to check in if condition like

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If(PDFxDoc) Then 'Here need to check pdf control have document or not ? how to check here ??

PDFxDoc.CloseDocument(0)'This line close document

Else

EndIF

Pls reply asap

Regards
Aravind

Posted 19-Mar-14 0:07am

Aravindba

Updated 19-Mar-14 4:16am

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Solution 1

It seem like a question to the company wrote the ActiveX...
http://www.tracker-software.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer-activex-sdk[^]

Posted 19-Mar-14 3:18am

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

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Aravindba 19-Mar-14 9:51am

hi thanx for ur reply ,actually i have that dll and reference same dll and i used for view pdf,it will work also,but i need to check pdf viewer opened document or not ,if only open in pdf viewer then only close document,if not open then don't want to close document.pls read my question clearly....

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 19-Mar-14 9:59am

I got your question - what I'm telling you that you have a commercial product in your hand, so ask the company!

Aravindba 19-Mar-14 10:06am

that company not deal with vb.net coding.that company only sell the product,like software selling company,i will use that dll and can open pdf file using that viewer,
my need is how to check whether pdf viewer open pdf file or not,bcz if file is open in pdf viewer and try to delete form folder,it show error like 'file is used by other process....." so only need to check file is open or not first then only can delete file

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 19-Mar-14 10:24am

I just downloaded the installer at the link I gave you - installed it and found a PDF full of info...
One of the sections says that there is a CloseAllDocuments method that closes all without knowing the Id of opened document (or without checking if there are any)...

Aravindba 19-Mar-14 11:12am

how it will delete file form folder when file is open in pdf viewer ?u cant delete at all,it will show error like " cannot delete bcz used by other process....."
u can try manually like ,open one pdf file and try to delete open pdf file (same file) definitely it show error "The action can't be complete because file is open in Adobe Reader"

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 19-Mar-14 11:14am

1. What the connection to your question?
2. Of course! How you expect do delete a used file?

Aravindba 19-Mar-14 11:17am

yes cant delete file,i know,so only i ask how to check file is open in pdf verwer or not ,i need to use if condition ,if file is open simply i leave it,if not then only i will delete form Temp folder.
And i alredy post code for how to open file in viewer and also closeDocuments,but i neet to check pdf viewer have file or not ? this is my question

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 19-Mar-14 11:25am

Try to read documentation - hint GetDocumentFromName...

Aravindba 20-Mar-14 6:13am

hi see my solution,i have answer in my question itself....
i cant get file name form GetDocumentFromName or cant get file is open or not

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 19-Mar-14 10:25am

And it has a lot of VB samples...

Blutfaust 19-Mar-14 15:05pm

Yeah, buying a software and not being able to contact the vendors support-team. That's what I really like.

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Aravindba · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-20T00:12:00

Hai
I have solved this problem myself,
Before going to delete file from Temp folder i will open file in pdf viewer ,same like view file in pdf viewer and then close document,now we know definitely file is not open in pdf viewer,so no need to check file is open or not in the pdf viewer.

VB

Call PDFxDoc.SetDevInfo("XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX", "XXXX$XXXX$XXXXXXX_XXXXXXX#")
 PDFxDoc.OpenDocument(System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath & "\sample.pdf")
CloseAllDocuments

Why i am ask need to check file is open or not in pdf viewer,in one Form user view pdf file and go to other Form for some other process ,so that time file is open in pdf viewer and user click logout button,sometimes user not open pdf file directly go to other Form and user click logout button.When user click logout button i will clear Temp folder in the StartupPath ,like

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My.Computer.FileSystem.DeleteDirectory(System.Windows.Forms.Application.StartupPath + "\Temp", FileIO.DeleteDirectoryOption.DeleteAllContents)

So file is open in pdf viewer definitely it show error like "...used by other process....".
For this ,file is open or not by user ,when logout time i will open one temp pdf file from StartupPath (not form Temp folder which i am going to delete folder) to viewer and close it,so definitely those file open from Temp folder ,that file are released form viewer and can delete Temp Folder also.

Why i am use Temp folder in my application,user upload pdf file and i will store in sql server in the format of bytes,so if user need to open ,first i will get byte from sql server and convert as pdf file and save in Temp folder and view in pdf viewer.So each and every time if user see the pdf file ,Temp folder get lot of pdf files and space occupy more,so need to clear that files and get space.