windowsforms-devexpress-dot-xtrarichedit-dot-richeditcontrol-31a94353.md
Gets an object implementing the IRichEditDocumentServer interface.
Namespace : DevExpress.XtraRichEdit
Assembly : DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.v25.2.dll
NuGet Package : DevExpress.Win.RichEdit
public virtual IRichEditDocumentServer CreateDocumentServer()
Public Overridable Function CreateDocumentServer As IRichEditDocumentServer
| Type | Description |
|---|---|
| IRichEditDocumentServer |
An object with the IRichEditDocumentServer interface.
|
Obtains an object that can be used instead of the RichEditDocumentServer instance. The CreateDocumentServer method is implemented for Mail Merge technique.
The following code creates an instance of Word Processing Document API, loads a document from the stream with the IRichEditDocumentServer.LoadDocument method and inserts the content of the document in the RichEditControl at the caret position using the SubDocument.InsertDocumentContent method.
The RichEditControl instance is passed to the BarItem.ItemClick event handler using the BarItem.Tag property.
static void buttonCustomAction_ItemClick_DocumentServer(object sender, ItemClickEventArgs e) {
RichEditControl richEdit = e.Item.Tag as RichEditControl;
IRichEditDocumentServer server = richEdit.CreateDocumentServer();
using(System.IO.FileStream fs = new System.IO.FileStream("Documents\\DocumentServerTest.docx", System.IO.FileMode.Open)) {
server.LoadDocument(fs, DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.DocumentFormat.Docx);
richEdit.Document.InsertDocumentContent(richEdit.Document.CaretPosition, server.Document.Range);
}
}
Private Shared Sub buttonCustomAction_ItemClick_DocumentServer(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As ItemClickEventArgs)
Dim richEdit As RichEditControl = TryCast(e.Item.Tag, RichEditControl)
Dim server As IRichEditDocumentServer = richEdit.CreateDocumentServer()
Using fs As New System.IO.FileStream("Documents\DocumentServerTest.docx", System.IO.FileMode.Open)
server.LoadDocument(fs, DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.DocumentFormat.Docx)
richEdit.Document.InsertDocumentContent(richEdit.Document.CaretPosition, server.Document.Range)
End Using
End Sub
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winforms-richedit-create-a-master-detail-report/CS/RichEditMasterDetailMailMerge/Form1.cs#L82
//Create a new RichEditDocumentServer for further processing:
IRichEditDocumentServer result = masterRichEdit.CreateDocumentServer();
richEditControl1.ReplaceService<ISyntaxHighlightService>(new HTMLSyntaxHighlightService(richEditControl1));
using(IRichEditDocumentServer server = richEditControl1.CreateDocumentServer()) {
server.Text = "some HTML text";
winforms-richeditcontrol-common-api/CS/RichEditAPISample/CodeExamples/RichEditControlActions.cs#L280
IRichEditDocumentServer documentServer = richEdit.CreateDocumentServer();
using(FileStream fs = new FileStream("Documents\\testDocumentDOCX.docx", FileMode.Open)) {
winforms-richedit-create-a-master-detail-report/VB/RichEditMasterDetailMailMerge/Form1.vb#L76
'Create a new RichEditDocumentServer for further processing:
Dim result As IRichEditDocumentServer = masterRichEdit.CreateDocumentServer()
richEditControl1.ReplaceService(Of ISyntaxHighlightService)(New HTMLSyntaxHighlightService(richEditControl1))
Using server As IRichEditDocumentServer = richEditControl1.CreateDocumentServer()
server.Text = "some HTML text"
winforms-richeditcontrol-common-api/VB/RichEditAPISample/CodeExamples/RichEditControlActions.vb#L287
Dim documentServer As IRichEditDocumentServer = richEdit.CreateDocumentServer()
Using fs As New System.IO.FileStream("Documents\testDocumentDOCX.docx", System.IO.FileMode.Open)
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