Get started integrating PDFTron UWP SDK

Welcome to PDFTron. This guide will help you integrate a free trial of the PDFTron UWP SDK into your Visual Studio projects for UWP applications. You can either integrate PDFTron packages automatically using NuGet Package Manager, or install them manually by downloading the SDK. Pick whichever option you prefer, but integrating with NuGet is the recommended approach. Your free trial includes unlimited trial usage and support from solution engineers.

Integrate with NuGet

Integrate Manually

Integrate UWP PDF library with NuGet

Prerequisites

Visual Studio 2017 or higher.
Make sure the Universal Windows Platform development workload is part of your installation.

No trial license key required.

The trial of PDFTron SDK works without a license key. A commercial license key is required for use in a production environment. Please fill out our licensing form if you do not have a valid license key.

Keep your commercial license key confidential.

License keys are uniquely generated. Please make sure that it is not publicly available (e.g. in your public GitHub).

Setup

Open a new instance of Visual Studio and create a new Project (File -> New -> Project...). In the new project dialog, select the language of your choice for UWP development. Call the application myapp-uwp.

Integrate PDFTron into your UWP Application

Find your project in the Solution Explorer. Right Click on the project and click on Manage NuGet Packages.... In the package manager, select the Browse tab and search for PDFTron.UWP. Install this package.
You can also find the package on nuget.org.

Open MainPage.xaml. Replace the contents of the <Grid></Grid> tag with:

<Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">
    <Grid.RowDefinitions>
        <RowDefinition Height="*"/>
        <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>
    </Grid.RowDefinitions>

    <Border x:Name="PDFViewBorder" Grid.Row="0"/>

    <StackPanel Grid.Row="1" Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="5">
        <Button x:Name="OpenButton">Open</Button>
    </StackPanel>
</Grid>