Utilize Internet Explorer to display reports using XML and XSL from a Windows application

using System;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Collections;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.XPath;
using System.Xml.Xsl;
using System.Xml;

namespace ListCtrlReport
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Summary description for Form1.
	/// </summary>
	public class FormMain : System.Windows.Forms.Form
	{
		private System.Windows.Forms.ListView listView;
		private System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader columnHeaderId;
		private System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader columnHeaderLName;
		private System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader columnHeaderFName;
		private System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader columnHeaderPhone;
		private System.Windows.Forms.Button buttonReport;
		private System.Windows.Forms.Button buttonFormat;
		private FormFormat formFormat = new FormFormat();
		private string xsl;

		/// <summary>
		/// Required designer variable.
		/// </summary>
		private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;

		public FormMain()
		{
			//
			// Required for Windows Form Designer support
			//
			InitializeComponent();

			//
			// TODO: Add any constructor code after InitializeComponent call
			//
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Clean up any resources being used.
		/// </summary>
		protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
		{
			if( disposing )
			{
				if (components != null) 
				{
					components.Dispose();
				}
			}
			base.Dispose( disposing );
		}

		#region Windows Form Designer generated code
		/// <summary>
		/// Required method for Designer support - do not modify
		/// the contents of this method with the code editor.
		/// </summary>
		private void InitializeComponent()
		{
			this.listView = new System.Windows.Forms.ListView();
			this.columnHeaderId = new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader();
			this.columnHeaderLName = new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader();
			this.columnHeaderFName = new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader();
			this.columnHeaderPhone = new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader();
			this.buttonReport = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
			this.buttonFormat = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();
			this.SuspendLayout();
			// 
			// listView
			// 
			this.listView.Anchor = ((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)((((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Top | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom) 
				| System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left) 
				| System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Right)));
			this.listView.Columns.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeader[] {
																					   this.columnHeaderId,
																					   this.columnHeaderLName,
																					   this.columnHeaderFName,
																					   this.columnHeaderPhone});
			this.listView.HeaderStyle = System.Windows.Forms.ColumnHeaderStyle.Nonclickable;
			this.listView.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 16);
			this.listView.Name = "listView";
			this.listView.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(500, 154);
			this.listView.TabIndex = 0;
			this.listView.View = System.Windows.Forms.View.Details;
			// 
			// columnHeaderId
			// 
			this.columnHeaderId.Text = "Author Id";
			this.columnHeaderId.Width = 101;
			// 
			// columnHeaderLName
			// 
			this.columnHeaderLName.Text = "Last Name";
			this.columnHeaderLName.Width = 156;
			// 
			// columnHeaderFName
			// 
			this.columnHeaderFName.Text = "First Name ";
			this.columnHeaderFName.Width = 118;
			// 
			// columnHeaderPhone
			// 
			this.columnHeaderPhone.Text = "Phone ";
			this.columnHeaderPhone.Width = 121;
			// 
			// buttonReport
			// 
			this.buttonReport.Anchor = ((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left)));
			this.buttonReport.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(303, 186);
			this.buttonReport.Name = "buttonReport";
			this.buttonReport.TabIndex = 1;
			this.buttonReport.Text = "Report";
			this.buttonReport.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.buttonReport_Click);
			// 
			// buttonFormat
			// 
			this.buttonFormat.Anchor = ((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles)((System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Bottom | System.Windows.Forms.AnchorStyles.Left)));
			this.buttonFormat.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(159, 186);
			this.buttonFormat.Name = "buttonFormat";
			this.buttonFormat.TabIndex = 2;
			this.buttonFormat.Text = "Format";
			this.buttonFormat.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.buttonFormat_Click);
			// 
			// FormMain
			// 
			this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
			this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(532, 223);
			this.Controls.Add(this.buttonFormat);
			this.Controls.Add(this.buttonReport);
			this.Controls.Add(this.listView);
			this.MinimumSize = new System.Drawing.Size(400, 150);
			this.Name = "FormMain";
			this.Text = "Authors";
			this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.FormMain_Load);
			this.ResumeLayout(false);

		}
		#endregion

		/// <summary>
		/// The main entry point for the application.
		/// </summary>
		[STAThread]
		static void Main() 
		{
			Application.Run(new FormMain());
		}

		private void FormMain_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			// Fill the list control with some data, this just some data from the pubs database.

			AddListViewItem("213-46-8915", "Green", "Marjorie", "415 986-7020"); 
			AddListViewItem("238-95-7766", "Carson", "Cheryl", "415 548-7723"); 
			AddListViewItem("267-41-2394", "O'Leary", "Michael", "408 286-2428"); 
			AddListViewItem("274-80-9391", "Straight", "Dean", "415 834-2919"); 
			AddListViewItem("341-22-1782", "Smith", "Meander", "913 843-0462"); 

			// Initialize our style sheet member variable.

			xsl = formFormat.StyleSheet;
		}
		
		private void AddListViewItem(params string[] subItems)
		{
			// Add new row to list control with given strings. 
			// See http://spaces.msn.com/members/pjsson/Blog/cns!1p76K4WF1ADMWttSKAc6E-Sg!126.entry

			listView.Items.Add(new ListViewItem(subItems));
		}

		private void buttonReport_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			// Generate XML from list control.

			string xml = @"<?xml version=""1.0"" ?>" + Environment.NewLine;
			xml = "<AUTHORS>";

			foreach (ListViewItem listViewItem in listView.Items)
			{
				xml += @"  <AUTHOR ID=""" + listViewItem.SubItems[0].Text + @""">" + Environment.NewLine;
				xml += @"    <FNAME>" + listViewItem.SubItems[1].Text + @"</FNAME>" + Environment.NewLine;
				xml += @"    <LNAME>" + listViewItem.SubItems[2].Text + @"</LNAME>" + Environment.NewLine;
				xml += @"    <PHONE>" + listViewItem.SubItems[3].Text + @"</PHONE>" + Environment.NewLine;
				xml += @"  </AUTHOR>";
			}      
      				
			xml += @"</AUTHORS>";
			
			// Make html code from the xml using a xsl style sheet.
			
			string html = MakeHTML(xml, xsl);

			// Open up IE and display the html code.

			DisplayHTML(html);
		}

		private void buttonFormat_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
		{
			// Open modal Format dialog.

			if (formFormat.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
			{
				// User clicked OK to update the xsl.

				xsl = formFormat.StyleSheet;
			}
		}

		public void DisplayHTML(string html)
		{
			// Create a new instance of Internet Explorer.

			SHDocVw.InternetExplorer internetExplorer = new SHDocVw.InternetExplorerClass();

			SHDocVw.IWebBrowser2 webBrowser = (SHDocVw.IWebBrowser2)internetExplorer;

			// Make the web browser visible.

			webBrowser.Visible = true;

			// Display empty page so we have something to manipulate.

			object noValue = System.Reflection.Missing.Value;

			webBrowser.Navigate("about:blank", ref noValue, ref noValue, ref noValue, ref noValue);

			// Get access to the webbrowser's document.

			mshtml.IHTMLDocument2 htmlDoc = internetExplorer.Document as mshtml.IHTMLDocument2;                  

			// Update the document.

			htmlDoc.writeln(html);
			htmlDoc.close();
		}

		public string MakeHTML(string xml, string xsl)
		{       
			// Load the XML string into an XPathDocument.

			StringReader xmlStringReader = new StringReader(xml);
			XPathDocument xPathDocument = new XPathDocument(xmlStringReader);
			
			// Create a reader to read the XSL.

			StringReader xslStringReader = new StringReader(xsl);
			XmlTextReader xslTextReader = new XmlTextReader(xslStringReader);

			// Load the XSL into an XslTransform.

			XslTransform xslTransform = new XslTransform();
			xslTransform.Load(xslTextReader, null, GetType().Assembly.Evidence);

			// Perform the actual transformation and output an HTML string. 
			
			StringWriter htmlStringWriter = new StringWriter();
			xslTransform.Transform(xPathDocument, null, htmlStringWriter, null) ;
			string html = htmlStringWriter.ToString();
			
			// Close all our readers and writers.

			xmlStringReader.Close();
			xslStringReader.Close();
			xslTextReader.Close();
			htmlStringWriter.Close();

			// Done, return the created HTML code.

			return html;
		}
	}
}