Following are the steps to add a custom button in the C1PrintPreviewControl toolbar at design time :
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Drag and drop the C1PrintPreviewControl on the form:
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Open the Properties window of the control.
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Toolbars || File (or navigation, page etc) || ToolStrip || Items.
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Click on the collection tab against the 'Items'
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'ItemsCollectionEditor' dialog will pop-up and you will get options to add buttons, separators, etc.
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Select the control from the left pane and set the properties in the right pane.
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Click OK and the 'ToolStripButton' will be added in the toolbarstrip.
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Click on the newly added button and open it's properties window. Select the event's tab and double click on the 'Click' option.
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The method to handle the click event of the new toostrip button will be created in the code.
Add the following code in the Form_Load event to add a custom button at run time:
'Create a new instance of ToolStripButton</p>
Dim button As New ToolStripButton
'Customize the button properties
button.Text = "CustomButton_ViaCode"
button.Image = ""
'Add this button in the PrintPreviewControl under any of the group (file in this case)
C1PrintPreviewControl1.ToolBars.File.ToolStrip.Items.Add(Button)
'Create click event handler of the button
AddHandler button.Click, AddressOf button_clickUsing the above steps, this is how the custom buttons (added via code and added via designer) would look like in the C1PrintPreviewControl.
