?RTF Viewer for C# (WebForms)?

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Hi All! I am aware that this is not the Web Forms section of the forum but you guys don't have a Web Forms section so I thought I'd post my question here. I'm looking for a tool/component with which I can open a .RTF file in C# (WebForms). WordPad can open this type of file but I need to open a .RTF file with C# (WebForms). I have tried to open a .RTF file with IE but it doens't work so now I'm looking for a tool of some kind. Can anyone help me with this or have any suggestions how I can open such a file with C# (WebFroms)? Thanks Sean

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OK no bites on this one. I think it's not possible natively. Next question: What are you all using to create reports forms etc? I have hand-written my Invoice but will need to create a number of documents that are much more boilerplate--more like a merge document. I have seen a number of products out there that claim they will help me out. Some Acrobat based etc. What do you use? Why did you pick it?

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I'll give this a bump as I need help with a similar problem. I'm not a web developer but in Windows Forms there is a RichTextBox which accepts RTF. Is there a similar Web Form control you can use? What I am looking for is some way to read an RTF file and show it in a PrintPreview dialog. Can any one help me out? I have found Mike Gold's solution in the Printing section of the C-sharpCorner web site and that seems unwieldy. Mike's solutions are usually the most elegant available so I'm guessing that's the best (only?) way. I suppose I could use OLE and a Word document object but I hoped to avoid requiring a specific word processor in the production environment.