Loading a text file in a WPF FlowDocumentReader The attached project is a WPF application written in C# and XAML.

It uses OpenFileDialog to browse text files and once text file is selected, it is loaded in a FlowDocumentReader that allows you to view, paging, and find options. First, let's create a UI with a TextBox, a Button, and a FlowDocumentViewer control. The UI looks like Figure 1.

Figure 1 The XAML code for the UI looks like this.

<Window x:Class="LoadTextFileInFlowDocumentViewerSample.Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Title="Window1" Height="290" Width="600"> <Canvas> <TextBox Height="32" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="6,10,0,0" Name="FileNameTextBox" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="393" /> <Button Content="Browse" Height="32" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="405,10,0,0" Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="88" Click="button1_Click" /> <FlowDocumentReader Name="FlowDocReader" Background="LightBlue" Canvas.Top="50" Canvas.Left="5" Width="560" Height="210"> </FlowDocumentReader> </Canvas> </Window>

On Button control, we will browse a text file and set TextBox.Text property to the selected file. As you can see from code below, we create a Paragraph and add the selected text file using Paragraph.Inlines.Add method. After that, we create a FlowDocument by passing this Paragraph and in the end; we set FlowDocumentReader.Document property to the FlowDocument. Code sample in C#:
private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { // Create OpenFileDialog Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog dlg = new Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog(); // Set filter for file extension and default file extension dlg.DefaultExt = ".txt"; dlg.Filter = "Text documents (.txt)|*.txt"; // Display OpenFileDialog by calling ShowDialog method Nullable<bool> result = dlg.ShowDialog(); // Get the selected file name and display in a TextBox if (result == true) { // Open document string filename = dlg.FileName; FileNameTextBox.Text = filename; Paragraph paragraph = new Paragraph(); paragraph.Inlines.Add(System.IO.File.ReadAllText(filename)); FlowDocument document = new FlowDocument(paragraph); FlowDocReader.Document = document; } }

Code sample in VB.NET:

Private Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.RoutedEventArgs) 'Create OpenFileDialog Dim dlg As Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog = New Microsoft.Win32.OpenFileDialog() ' Set filter for file extension and default file extension dlg.DefaultExt = ".txt" dlg.Filter = "Text documents (.txt)|*.txt" ' Display OpenFileDialog by calling ShowDialog method If (dlg.ShowDialog() = True) Then '; Open document Dim filename As String = dlg.FileName FileNameTextBox.Text = filename Dim paragraph As Paragraph = New Paragraph() paragraph.Inlines.Add(System.IO.File.ReadAllText(filename))

Dim document As FlowDocument = New FlowDocument(paragraph) FlowDocReader.Document = document End If End Sub

Now if you run the application and browse a text file, the output looks like Figure 2.

Figure 2
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