Yoda,

LiveCycle Forms will do what you need, but it is a J2EE application. To use it you need to set up a J2EE application server. If you're willing to do that, you can access it via SOAP using a .NET server using a dll that Adobe provides.

Jared

I wrote a test C# web application (with a lot of guidance from a SmartDoc Technologies article and the Adobe "Developing Custom Applications" document) that displays a page which contains a pdf document.  You can display a pre-populated PDF by entering data as html input.  You can also change the data on the PDF, and extract the data and display this information.<br /><br />Download the sample code from the Developing a .NET web application using Adobe LiveCycle Forms article at http://www.smartdoctech.com/articles.aspx.<br /><br />Place your PDF file on the LiveCycle Forms server.  I put mine in D:\Adobe\LiveCycle\template.<br /><br />Create a new web project.<br /><br />Make a reference to the ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.dll and SoupClient.dll in the sample code bin folder.<br /><br />TESTPAGE2 CODE IS USED TO DISPLAY A BLANK  AND PRE-POPULATED PDF:<br /><br />using  SoapClient;<br />using CM = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager;<br /><br />protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)<br />{<br />    if (Request.QueryString["extract"] == null || Request.QueryString["extract"].Trim().Length == 0)<br />    {<br />        DisplayPDF();<br />    }<br />    else<br />    {<br />        ExtractPdfData();<br />    }<br />}<br /><br />string _SoapEndPoint = "http://your_server_name:8080/jboss-net/services/AdobeFSService";<br /><br />private void DisplayPDF()<br />{<br />    // Create an FSSoapClient object.<br />    FSSoapClient formServer = new FSSoapClient();<br />    formServer.setSoapEndPoint(_SoapEndPoint);<br /><br />    // Declare and populate local variables to pass to renderForm.<br />    String sFormQuery = "Target.pdf"; //Defines the form design to render<br />    String sFormPreference = "PDFForm"; //Defines the preference option<br />    String sContentRootURI = "D:\\Adobe\\LiveCycle\\template\\";<br />    String sTargetURL = "";<br />    String sApplicationWebRoot = "";<br /><br />    byte[] cData;<br /><br />    try<br />    {<br />        if (Request.QueryString["id"] == null || Request.QueryString["id"].Trim().Length == 0)<br />        {<br />            // Do not prepopulate the form.<br />            cData = new byte[0];<br />        }<br />        else<br />        {<br />          // Extract data from database.<br />            cData = GetData(Request.QueryString["id"]);<br />        }<br /><br />        //Call renderForm<br />        IOutputContext myOutputContext = formServer.renderForm(<br />        sFormQuery, //sFormQuery<br />        sFormPreference, //sFormPreference<br />        cData, //cData,<br />        "CacheEnabled=False",//sOptions<br />        null, //sUserAgent,<br />        sApplicationWebRoot, //sApplicationWebRoot<br />        sTargetURL, //sTargetURL<br />        sContentRootURI, //sContentRootURI<br />        null //sBaseURL<br />        );<br /><br />        //Create a byte array. Call the IOutputContext interface's<br />        //getOutputContext method<br />        byte[] cContent = myOutputContext.getOutputContent();<br />        Response.ContentType = "Application/pdf";<br />        Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", cContent.Length.ToString());<br /><br />        //Write a byte stream back to the web browser. Pass the byte array<br />        Response.BinaryWrite(cContent);<br />        Response.End();<br />    }<br />    //Catch a thrown exception<br />    catch (Exception ex)<br />    {<br />        byte[] bArray = (new System.Text.ASCIIEncoding()).GetBytes(ex.Message);<br />        Response.BinaryWrite(bArray);<br />    }<br />}<br /><br />/// <summary><br />/// Extracts data from database and returns an encoded sequence of bytes.<br />/// </summary><br />/// <returns></returns><br />public byte[] GetData(string pgaID)<br />{<br />    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("");<br />    sb.Append("SELECT field as myfieldname, ");<br />    sb.Append("FROM table ");<br />    sb.Append("WHERE condition1 = true ");<br />    sb.Append("AND field_id = ");<br />    sb.Append(pgaID);<br />    sb.Append(" AND condition2 = true");<br /><br />    string sql = sb.ToString();<br /><br />    string conString = CM.ConnectionStrings["OAM_Connection"].ConnectionString;<br />    AseConnection con = new AseConnection(conString);<br />    AseCommand cmd = new AseCommand(sql, con);<br />    cmd.CommandType = CommandType.Text;<br /><br />    AseDataAdapter da = new AseDataAdapter(cmd);<br />    DataSet ds = new DataSet();<br /><br />    try<br />    {<br />        con.Open();<br />        da.Fill(ds, "XML_Root_Name");<br />        ds.DataSetName = "REMOVE";<br />    }<br />    catch<br />    {<br />        throw;<br />    }<br />    finally<br />    {<br />        con.Close();<br />    }<br /><br />    // Convert the dataset to XML.<br />    XmlDataDocument datadoc = new XmlDataDocument(ds);<br />    string dsXML = datadoc.InnerXml;<br /><br />    // Remove root element of Dataset.<br />    if (dsXML.Length > 17)<br />    {<br />        dsXML = dsXML.Remove(0, 8);<br />        dsXML = dsXML.Remove(dsXML.Length - 9);<br />    }<br /><br />    return Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(dsXML);<br /><br />}<br /><br />TESTPAGE2 ALSO IS CALLED DIRECTLY BY THE PDF.  <br /><br />private void ExtractPdfData()<br />{<br />    try<br />    {<br />        //Create an FSSoapClient object<br />        FSSoapClient formServer = new FSSoapClient();<br />        formServer.setSoapEndPoint(_SoapEndPoint);<br /><br />        // Call processFormSubmission to handle the submitted data. Pass the<br />        // Request object<br />        IOutputContext myOutputContext = formServer.processFormSubmission(Request, "OutputType=0");<br />        //Populate a byte array by calling IOutputContext objects<br />        //getOutContent method<br />        byte[] formOutput = myOutputContext.getOutputContent();<br />        //Create a MemoryStream object<br />        MemoryStream myMemoryStream = new MemoryStream(formOutput);<br />        // Create an XmlDocument object<br />        XmlDocument myDOM = new XmlDocument();<br />        // Load the XML data into the XmlDocument object:<br />        myDOM.Load(myMemoryStream);<br />        // Call getNodeText for each field in the form<br />        String clientName = getNodeText("fieldname1", myDOM);<br />        String question1 = getNodeText("fieldname2", myDOM);<br /><br />        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("");<br />        sb.Append("<h2>You selected:</h2>");<br />        sb.Append("Field 1: " + fieldname1 + "<br>");<br />        sb.Append("Field 2: " + fieldname2 + "<br>");<br /><br />        Response.Write(sb.ToString());<br />    }//End of try statement<br /><br />    catch (Exception ioEx)<br />    {<br />        Response.Write("Exception error is: " + ioEx);<br />    }<br />}<br /><br />// Create the getNodeText custom method<br />private String getNodeText(String nodeName, XmlDocument myDOM)<br />{<br />    //Get the node by name. nodeName is the name of the<br />    //node passed to this method<br />    XmlNodeList nl = myDOM.GetElementsByTagName(nodeName);<br />    XmlNode myNode = nl.Item(0);<br />    return myNode.InnerText;<br />}//End of getNodeText<br /><br />Default.aspx UI CODE, Blank.pdf is used for the initial display - located in web project:<br /><br /><%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true"  CodeFile="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits="_Default" %><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><br /><br /><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" ><br /><head runat="server"><br />    <title>LiveCycle Demo</title><br /><br />    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript"><br />    <br />        function noenter() <br />        {<br />            // Returns False if enter key is pressed.<br />            return !(window.event && window.event.keyCode == 13); <br />        }<br />    <br />        function displayPDF()<br />        {<br />            var pdfContainer = document.getElementById("iframePDF");<br />            var myID = document.getElementById("myID").value;<br />            document.getElementById("myID").value = "";<br />            <br />            if ((myID == null) || (myID == ''))<br />            {<br />                // Display empty form.<br />                pdfContainer.src = "TestPage2.aspx";<br />            }<br />            else<br />            {<br />                // Display pre-populated form.<br />                pdfContainer.src = "TestPage2.aspx?id=" + pgaID;<br />            }<br />        }<br />    </script><br /><br /></head><br /><body><br />    <form id="form1" runat="server"><br />        <h2>Adobe LiveCycle PDF Demo</h2><br />        <button onclick="displayPDF()">Display PDF</button>   ID: <br />        <input id="myID" type="text" style="width: 48px" onkeypress="return noenter()" /><br />        <br /><br /><br />        <div st

Is there any shortcut way to show the PDF stored in Oracle database as BLOB in a web browser using ASP.NET? (VB not C#)?

No involvement of XML and using data reader.

Hi,
I have the following code to create the pdf file in the same browser

Response.Clear()
Response.ContentType = "application/x-pdf"
Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-pdf")

Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=Record.pdf")
Response.AddHeader("Content-Length", "Record")
I am getting the file(Record.pdf) but only blank file not with the form text value