C# WINDOWS APP:  EMBED PDF VIEWER WITH FULL LIBRARY

Here are my requirements:
1) A PDF viewer that is embedded in a window in my windows app.
2) I must be able to reference button_click events in the PDF from my windows app. (i.e. if i click a button in the PDF, the event occurs in my windows app.
Pertaining to the above requirements:
Here is what I've noticed so far. The Adobe Reader ActiveX works great at simply viewing PDF's and the buttons are shown too. However, I haven't found anything in the Reader library that allows me to reference the buttons in the PDF. This leaves the following questions.
Possible Solutions: (need your help/recommendations)
1) Can I use the Acrobat SDK to reference the document that is open inside my Adobe Reader ActiveX control? (If I can, then i can get a hold of my buttons and events). If I can do this, does anyone have any clue about the proper syntax? All of the the samples I've seen actually reference a document that acrobat opens, not the reader....
2) Can I embed the Adobe Acrobat (not the reader) in my windows app in order to view the files? I haven't seen this done yet. Every example I've seen opens the acrobat in it's own window!!!
3) Is there other software out there that offers both functionalities: 1) Embedded viewing window with 2) Full access to PDF library?
Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated, as I have searched High, Low, and In Between for a solution.
Thanks,
jpc

Patrick Leckey and Walker81,
So, according to both of you, it is possible.  I have messed around with the buttons a little bit in acrobat enough to know that you can make a button that on click will run a javascript.  The problem is that I do not know any javascript, which is why i was trying to access it only with C#.  However, I am now receptive of the idea of learning at least a little java to get around in adobe (it seems unavoidable).  Any examples or pointers as to how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
So for clarification:  Is the following statement correct?  If I have an Adobe Reader Active X control which opens the PDF, it is impossible for me to also reference that opened PDF as an acrobat object, thereby getting access to all of it's objects.
From what I understand:
-  I can put in the button field of my "template button" to call a certian javascript that is stored in the PDF, and this javascript can send information to my C# windows application.
- I can embed acrobat (not reader) into my C# application with the MenuItem that Walker81 mentioned. (btw, i'm not concerned about the extra cost.  I really just need something that works)
This brings about a question though:  If I can embed acrobat in my Windows App, then what keeps me from accessing the button fields through that avenue?  (I think the adobe SDK has an example of fields being accessed - things like text boxes being filled in and junk).  So would it be possible to create a buttonclick_event of all of the buttons in the PDF at runtime through adobe's library by looping through all of the fields and declaring a buttonclick event???  I'll look into it, because being able to access a field and being able to make an event from one can be two different animals I guess...
Thanks for the responses, and I will look up and mess around with the methods you described and try to make them work from my limited knowledge.  If anyone has any example code they'd like to share to get me started on this, it would be helpful.  I understand there's something called a document level function or something like that in adobe.  I'm assuming you're saying that the button would call this function, and that this function would reference my windows app.  I will look at this some more and try to follow up on here.  I can't imagine that i'm the only person trying to do this..

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