Behind code Mail Merge Moving through Indexes

[Minh]

Hi,I'm currently working with all MailMerge Documents. Is there a way to grab the Mail Merge document value without disrupting the UI thread. 

 

this.radRichTextBox.Document.MailMergeDataSource.MoveToIndex(index);

 

 

this.radRichTextBox.Document.MailMergeDataSource.MoveToIndex(counter);

this.radRichTextBox.Document.MailMergeDataSource.MoveToIndex(counter);

 

 

 

 

[Tanya]

Hi Minh,

You could use a background thread that executes the Merge operation. In order to pass the document to execute on the background, you will need to export it and pass the result string to the other thread, which then could import it to create a RadDocument instance and merge the desired record from the source collection. Keep in mind that the thread must be with ApartmentState.STA.

Here is a sample code that uses a separate thread to perform a Mail Merge and save the document to the file system:

XamlFormatProvider provider = new XamlFormatProvider();
string editorDocument = provider.Export(this.editor.Document);

Thread thread = new Thread(() =>
{
    RadDocument document = provider.Import(editorDocument);
    document.MailMergeDataSource.ItemsSource = new ExamplesDataContext().Employees;

    // The MailMerge() method will merge all the records in the MailMergeDataSource. If you need to merge only a single record, you could use MailMergeCurrentRecord()
    RadDocument result = document.MailMerge();

    PdfFormatProvider pdfProvider = new PdfFormatProvider();
    using (FileStream stream = File.OpenWrite("result.pdf"))
    {
        pdfProvider.Export(result, stream);
    }
});

thread.SetApartmentState(ApartmentState.STA);
thread.Start();

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Tanya
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