It's a well-known bug that Visual Studio shows an error when you try to construct a FixedDocument
in XAML. For example, the following snippet
<DocumentViewer>
<FixedDocument>
<PageContent>
<FixedPage Width="21.0cm" Height="29.7cm">
<TextBlock>Hello World!</TextBlock>
</FixedPage>
</PageContent>
</FixedDocument>
</DocumentViewer>
compiles and runs perfectly fine, but Visual Studio shows an error in the error list (Property 'Pages' does not support values of type 'PageContent'.
) This is quite annoying.
I'm looking for a solution that allows me to construct my documents in a XAML file in Visual Studio without getting that error message. I've found a workaround, which I'd like to share below as an answer, but I'm curious if there's a better (more elegant) solution around.
I know this had already been answered, but I think this answer is nicer because it doesn't require you to add a DocumentView.
If there's a way to reference the resources by the key name and put them in the FixedDocument with XAML, please let me know. I can't seem to find a way to do that, but maybe it's possible.
Use:
var doc = System.Windows.Application.LoadComponent(new Uri("/FixedDocumentExample.xaml", UriKind.Relative)) as FixedDocument;
doc.AddPages();
Extension Method:
using System.Collections;
using System.Windows.Documents;
public static class FixedDocumentExtended {
public static void AddPages(this FixedDocument fixedDocument) {
var enumerator = fixedDocument.Resources.GetEnumerator();
while (enumerator.MoveNext()) {
var pageContent = ((DictionaryEntry)enumerator.Current).Value as PageContent;
if (pageContent != null) {
fixedDocument.Pages.Add(pageContent);
}
}
}
}
XAML:
<FixedDocument
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml">
<FixedDocument.Resources>
<PageContent x:Key="page1">
<FixedPage Width="793.76" Height="1122.56">
<TextBlock Margin="50" Text="Page 1"/>
</FixedPage>
</PageContent>
<PageContent x:Key="page2">
<FixedPage Width="793.76" Height="1122.56">
<TextBlock Margin="50" Text="Page 2"/>
</FixedPage>
</PageContent>
</FixedDocument.Resources>
</FixedDocument>