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Which approach is good for creating a document viewer in WPF?

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I need to create a document viewer in WPF.

  • The document is read-only. This is not an editor.
  • The document usually is very long and not paginated (meaning it is a long scrolling document).
  • The document should be scrolled smoothly, even if it is large.
  • The document control should not hang (unresponsive) while loading a large document (at least show "loading...", instead of freezing).
  • The document needs to be word-wrapped when the user resize the window.
  • The document may contain images and push buttons and hypertext links.
  • It need to support folding like the Visual Studio editor.

First I tried to use the FlowDocument in .NET, but the performance was not so good when the document was long. If I create a document viewer control myself, is there any article or approach that I can refer to? I am thinking about drawing everything using Visuals on a custom control. Is this a good approach?


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