Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Silverlight prototype of XPS Viewer

WPF Team Bloggers — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:10:33 GMT

Cool project that Delay worked on: http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/05/22/lighting-up-the-xml-paper-specification-proof-of-concept-xps-reader-for-silverlight.aspx

Silverlight XPS Document Reader Proof-Of-Concept

Windows Live Quantum Mechanics — Wed, 23 May 2007 05:38:13 GMT

Delay started out poking around in the XPS document format. Before he could stop himself, he had an XPS

Do you see the Silverlight?

Adrian Ford — Wed, 23 May 2007 05:41:32 GMT

Delay has a great proof-of-concept example that shows how a simple XPS viewer can be implemented in Silverlight

David Anson's Silverlight Based XPS Viewer

Mike Harsh's Blog — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:12:26 GMT

David Anson has created an XPS viewer using the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. This app is a very cool idea and

Silverlight XPS viewer

Wictor Wilen — Wed, 23 May 2007 09:56:31 GMT

Delay has done it - a Silverlight "proof-of-concept" XPS viewer! Head over to his post and try it out, this might be the start of the cross-platform XPS viewer that we all long for...

XPS reader for Silverlight

neuhawk — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:12:52 GMT

Delay 发布了一个SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer 小软件

[Silverlight] Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight

Damir Tomicic : ein Tag in der Community — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:48:53 GMT

Viewing XPS in Silverlight

Mike Taulty's Blog — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:11:29 GMT

Amazing post over here; http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2007/05/22/lighting-up-the-xml-paper-specification-proof-of-concept-xps-reader-for-silverlight.aspx...

Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2007

WynApse — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:20:53 GMT

Silverlight Cream for May 23, 2007

Why XML in Silverlight is Significant

Synergist — Thu, 24 May 2007 00:55:39 GMT

I have been working with XML for most of my career, from developing a CAD application to my roles at

Silverlight news - May 24, 2007

Silverlight City — Thu, 24 May 2007 15:07:27 GMT

Silverlight news - May 24, 2007

Points of interest #9

John Mandia's Points of Interest — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:25:12 GMT

Well this week was a nice rest, most of it spent relaxing with my wife. So it was a non-coding week but

My "Lap Around Silverlight" Talk at TechEd

ScottGu's Blog — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 06:53:19 GMT

On Monday I gave an overview talk called "A Lap Around Silverlight" at TechEd in Orlando. You can download

חומרים חדשים על Silverlight

It's All About Causality — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:46:16 GMT

לאט לאט עולים יותר הדגמות וחומרים על Silvelight, הנה כמה דברים מעניינים: מימוש של גרפים ב Silverlight

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

veeral — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 04:53:11 GMT

G'day,

I have been playing with XPS/Silverlight for a few days. I have noticed the sample XPS document you have provided with your sample code contains several ottdf file. How do you generate such a file ? My understanding is that font data is included within the XPS file unless i am incorrect.

Another question for you is that if I used the Save As XPS option within Office 2007 within the XPS package there is a file FixedDoc.fdoc under Documents\1\. Whereas if I used the XPS printer driver the file is FixedDocument.fdoc.

Why is there a difference ? In your code you are referring to FixedDocument.fdoc.

thanks

Veeral

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

veeral — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:14:32 GMT

sorry mate i reread your post above regarding the ottdf file. Its included within Documents\1\Resources\Fonts path.

Still interested in the fixeddoc.fdoc and fixeddocument.fdoc issue.

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Delay — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:49:12 GMT

veeral,

Regarding the internal XPS file structure difference between documents generated by the XPS Printer Driver vs. Office, that's something I was aware of [and touched on with my second bullet point about not setting out to write a full XPS parser :) ]. Like the difference you cite, the differences I've seen so far have seemed pretty minor and I suspect that both variants are fully valid XPS files according to the spec. I just happened to focus my efforts on the XPS Printer Driver variant (and knew I controlled the sample data), so that's what the sample code currently assumes. I think it would be relatively straightforward to support the Office variant, too, but that was somewhat tangential to my goal of proving the concept of an XPS viewer in Silverlight.

Hope that explains things!

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

veeral — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:49:21 GMT

thanks for the feedback. It makes sense after a good sleep.

I have been reading the XPS specification and the spec states that the actual name of the file with the extension fdoc can be anything as long as the long as the other aspects of the part naming conventions are adhered to. Just read up on section 2.2 and S2.25.

Now I got to spend a bit more time with the XAML syntaxes between the two platforms.

You guys pump out so many new things so quickly its hard for me to keep abreast with everything. :D

What amazes me is how you managed to write this app and the ms surface app so quickly. I guess you have access to the team and internal resources. I really do envy you alot. :-)

thanks for your help.

veeral

A new Silverlight version has been released! [Samples updated for the 1.1 Refresh]

Delay's Blog — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:14:08 GMT

With today's release of the Silverlight 1.0 RC and 1.1 Refresh , I've updated the Silverlight samples

A new Silverlight version has been released! [Samples updated for the 1.1 Refresh]

Noticias externas — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:15:15 GMT

With today's release of the Silverlight 1.0 RC and 1.1 Refresh , I've updated the Silverlight

איך לעשות Upgrade ל Silverlight 1.1 בגרסה החדשה

It's All About Causality — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:50:28 GMT

Delay מפרט את השלבים שהוא עשה כדי לעשות Upgrade לכמה דברים שהוא כתב ב Silverlight 1.1. בינהם ה Air Lines

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

cesarzam — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:33:37 GMT

Cool tool, I wonder if I can use this in my project, I am using Windows 2003, VS.NET c# ASP.net. I am plannig to convert all documents to .XPS and use the XPS viewer to view document overt the interner. Any Suggestions?

All my web application was coded in ASP.net,C#, Windows 2003. It is too late for me to change to Vista for the monent.

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Delay — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:08:20 GMT

cesarzam,

You could use something like my demo application or just rely on the native .XPS viewing that comes with .NET 3.0. It's my understanding that Vista is not a requirement for XPS viewing. You can find more details here: http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/default.mspx

Thanks and good luck!

[PL] Przeglądarka XPS w Silverlight

Only Human | Devoted to technology v.2.0 — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 13:27:03 GMT

Bardzo mi się podoba fakt, że niektóre technologie kojarzone jako "produkty" bardzo odrębnie, ze względu

[PL] Przeglądarka XPS w Silverlight

Noticias externas — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:34:47 GMT

Bardzo mi się podoba fakt, że niektóre technologie kojarzone jako "produkty" bardzo odrębnie

XPS rozwija się

SocialITy — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 18:14:50 GMT

Dla porządku nieco wstępu teoretycznego - XPS ( XML Paper Specification ) to jeden z nowych formatów

Приложение для просмотре XPS на Silverlight

Gaidar Magdanurov — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:35:14 GMT

Интересное приложение, созданное с использованием Silverlight, опубликовано в Delay's Blog . Приложение

Приложение для просмотре XPS на Silverlight

Gaidar Magdanurov — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:36:09 GMT

Интересное приложение, созданное с использованием Silverlight, опубликовано в De

点燃XML Paper Specification[Proof-of-concept]XPS reader for Silverlight

works guo — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 08:34:06 GMT

这是一篇关于基于Silverlight 1.1 alpha 的XPS查看器,现在微软还没有官方的基于Silverlight的 XPS 查看器,但这位开发者是非Silverlight 团队的,他制作一个可以很好的查看XPS文档的查看器而且还有源代码下载,虽然能使用但是有一些问题(在文中会谈到).

[Ww.Web] SilverDark

Ww.CodeSculptor — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:45:22 GMT

Postanowiłem wziąść udział w konkursie Silverlighta (SL). Długo szukalem tematu. Po akademicku zacząłem

David Anson's Silverlight Based XPS Viewer

Mirrored Blogs — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:54:52 GMT

David Anson has created an XPS viewer using the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha. This app is a very cool idea and

Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader gets some Beta 1 love [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 1!]

Delay's Blog — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:05:54 GMT

After a few customer requests to update my SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer proof-of-concept XPS reader for

XAML, XPS, WPF, XPSviewer, Silverlight ?

PDF　千夜一夜 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:00:15 GMT

Windows Vistaに伴って、いろいろと新しいMSのアーキテクチャが導入さ...

Proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader comes to Beta 2 [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample updated for Silverlight 2 Beta 2!]

Delay's Blog — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:37:07 GMT

Earlier this week I was asked about an update to my SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample for the newly released

Roadblock in the way of migrating the proof-of-concept Silverlight XPS reader [SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer sample does not work on Silverlight 2 RTW]

Delay's Blog — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:07:53 GMT

Since the public release of Microsoft Silverlight 2 , I've gotten a few internal and external requests

Silverlight 2 RTW读取XPS解决方案

dotfun — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:29:28 GMT

LightinguptheXMLPaperSpecification[Proof-of-conceptXPSreaderforSilverlight!]Sincegetting...

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Rimbi_Soumen — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:56:59 GMT

Please help in the following:

1. How the Silverlight2.dll for Silverlight2.xps is generated.

2. I can see a project with name Silverlight2. What kind of project is that ?

(I mean I found there is a project for every XPS document)

3. StreamResourceInfo streamInfo = Application.GetResourceStream(new StreamResourceInfo(e.Result, "application/binary"), new Uri(source, UriKind.Relative));

Here I get the error. That is If I have a MyXPS.XPS, the MyXPS.dll is not found which throws object not instantiated exception.

Soumen, India

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Delay — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:35:12 GMT

Soumen,

I'm afraid I don't understand most of what you're asking. But maybe you want to start with one of the following two links which point to Silverlight 2 versions of the XPS Viewer:

http://blogs.msdn.com/delay/archive/2008/10/18/roadblock-in-the-way-of-migrating-the-proof-of-concept-silverlight-xps-reader-simplesilverlightxpsviewer-sample-does-not-work-on-silverlight-2-rtw.aspx

http://firstfloorsoftware.com/blog/xps-in-silverlight-revisited/

Hope this helps!

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Rimbi_Soumen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:40:03 GMT

Say for example, I have an XPS Document named “MyPPTSlide.xps” that I want to display in Silverlight-2 application. I need to know what are the steps involves in this regard. What I do is as below:

1. Create a Silverlight 2 application using VWD 2008.

2. Use the SimpleSilverlightXpsViewer.xap made by you in the HTML page as

3. Unknown

Here I need to know what are the other tasks I need to do to display the MyPPTSlide.xps into the the html page. This might involve creating a separate project for the XPS document, creating fonts etc. I am stuck after step 2 and want to continue from step 3.

Thanks in advance!

Soumen, India

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Delay — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:12:31 GMT

Soumen,

The way the sample works is that references to the three samples are directly in the code which tells it where to look for them. Your proposal to use initParams to pass something in is a good one, but was unnecessary for the proof-of-concept I was working on. If you'd like to change the code to support that feature, I'd encourage you to do so because it seems like a nice thing to have. But the code I wrote was specifically not trying to support that general scenario.

For what it's worth, if you want something quick and easy to start with, you can rename your XPS document to Intro.xps, replace the contents of the Intro sample with your document and files, and see where that gets you. :)

Hope this helps!

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Rimbi_Soumen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:14:13 GMT

Thanks for the prompt reply but unfortunately the idea did not work for me. However could you please tell me what this line means for:

ConvertPartName("/Documents/1/FixedDocument.fdoc");

Where this FixedDocument.fdoc locates? The code says its a relative Uri.

Soumen

re: Lighting up the XML Paper Specification [Proof-of-concept XPS reader for Silverlight!]

Delay — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:52:16 GMT

Soumen,

That has to do with the internal structure of the XPS document. You'll probably want to read the XPS specification if you're going to be doing much with XPS documents. Thanks!

Displaying XPS Documents in Silverlight

simonguest.com — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:10:49 GMT

I’ve recently been involved on a project that has a requirement to create and view XPS documents in Silverlight. 

re: [Silverlight] Silverlight2での大量テキストの表示

.NETな日々 — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:36:29 GMT

re: [Silverlight] Silverlight2での大量テキストの表示

[Silverlight] Silverlight2での大量テキストの表示（XPS編）

.NETな日々 — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:37:19 GMT

[Silverlight] Silverlight2での大量テキストの表示（XPS編）