Printing in C#

Very helpful for me. Hope that he provides more useful feature for C# developer.

sir printExample works fine in c#...
but when i m trying to do the same in vb.net
it gives me an error-->
Error    6    Attribute specifier is not a complete statement. Use a line continuation to apply the attribute to the following statement.   

on the line -->
 <System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("gdi32.dll")>

Private Sub BitBlt(ByVal hdcDest As IntPtr, ByVal nXDest As Integer, ByVal nYDest As Integer, ByVal nWidth As Integer, ByVal nHeight As Integer, ByVal hdcSrc As IntPtr, ByVal nXSrc As Integer, ByVal nYSrc As Integer, ByVal dwRop As System.Int32) as boolean

i tried this example, 1 thing i notice is that when i type on the textbox 3 to 4 lines without using return key, the lines were printed off bounds. its like being printed on just one line instead of 3 or 4.

can you help me about preview a word document and print it by addressing the file name

Hi Mike, I read your above article and wonder if I can instead of printing to a printer, I create a text file . Is there a component that print a content of a document to a text file. Thanks Al ehx5@yahoo.com

It would probably just be easier to stream the data to a text file using the FileStream or StreamWriter classes.

how can i define a print document to print preview in console application cause it returns nothing

you would need to serialize your console to a file and open the file in a windows form.  then you can take advantage of the printdocument, print preview and other great printing facilities in .NET.

Finally an article that made me understand how the blasted thing works! MSDN is junk, I have been reading it for a day and a half and haven't been able to produce a single printed page. After reading this, thou, I am printing (after 5 minutes of adopting this code to my needs). Thank you very much!

I have a problem with "StringReader(strText);" The complation don't fount de class. Some idea? Thanks

Please tell me how can i print a form which is containing textboxes,buttons and more controls and i want to print this as it is... help me.... thnks

Hey , Thanks, This was very useful. Regards, Alex

Nice article. Can we change the default MarginBounds height for Left and Top margins, because I need it in my project

Nice article, but it doesn't work... for multiple pages.  Just prints the first page and quits.

for multiple pages, you'll need to set the HasMultiplePages flag in the app to true, and set it to false when you've printed all the pages in your PrintPage event handler.

Howzit ive written a program in C++ and now id like to print the output which the program gives me. Currently the last line shown on the window is "Press any key to continue..." so whenever i try to print screen the window vanishes. How can i print the output without losing the information??

it's a different story if you are printing output from a console app.  You'll need to use pinvoke to make direct calls to the printer SDK in order to print text in a console app.

sir printExample works fine in c#...
but when i m trying to do the same in vb.net
it gives me an error-->
Error    6    Attribute specifier is not a complete statement. Use a line continuation to apply the attribute to the following statement.   

on the line -->
 <System.Runtime.InteropServices.DllImport("gdi32.dll")>

Private Sub BitBlt(ByVal hdcDest As IntPtr, ByVal nXDest As Integer, ByVal nYDest As Integer, ByVal nWidth As Integer, ByVal nHeight As Integer, ByVal hdcSrc As IntPtr, ByVal nXSrc As Integer, ByVal nYSrc As Integer, ByVal dwRop As System.Int32) as boolean

please help me to sort his problem...
thank you..

Hi
 This is a really good article... that helped a lot.
I have a doubt , am new to c#, tell me how can i catch exception raised while printing through Printpreview dialog.
FOreg.  through pagesetup, i changed my printer to a Pdf convertor.
next through Print preview i clicked on Print icon since i had selectd the Pdf convertor, it will ask me to give the filename to be p[rinted as pdf.
But  instead of giving the filename, i click on cancel.
Now... this raises a unhandled exception... i cannot directly catch in the print preview dialog. Cam u help me..

ciao mike .
thanks for your example .
I'm doing some exercise about the printing and i'm readin a book , programming windows in c# written by mr. petzold .
Well i had converted your program and test it .
It is working but when i print the document , i don't know why ,the pages printed are strange .
Some characters aren't drawen and the document is printed out of the page bounds  .
Let me understand ....does the informations got by eventargs are about the printer after setting it ?
Thanks for your answer
walter

Dear sir, The above example work for me. My another problem is : I want to print a receipt of supermarket through dot matrix printer. We use Paper in roll for that. How to stop feeding page rolling just at the end of last line??

My guess is you will need to use a lower level SDK in the case of a matrix printer and probably access the text driver directly.  You'll need to wrap your SDK in pinvoke calls if you are using C#

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thanks.. this really works.

i am trying to print the contant of richTextBox which has many lables all lables taking data from data now i am try to take print but i am getting only blank pages, using this code here is my code' plz tell me why i getting this message on my id deepak.pandit3@gmail.com plz check this code below [ protected void printToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { try { string strText = this.richTextBox1.Text; myReader = new StringReader(strText); PrintPreviewDialog printPreviewDialog1 = new PrintPreviewDialog(); printPreviewDialog1.Document = this.ThePrintDocument; printPreviewDialog1.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.Fixed3D; printPreviewDialog1.ShowDialog(); } catch (Exception exp) { System.Console.WriteLine(exp.Message.ToString()); } } protected void ThePrintDocument_PrintPage(object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs ev) { float linesPerPage = 0; float yPosition = 0; int count = 0; float leftMargin = ev.MarginBounds.Left; float topMargin = ev.MarginBounds.Top; string line = null; Font printFont = this.richTextBox1.Font; SolidBrush myBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black); // Work out the number of lines per page, using the MarginBounds. linesPerPage = ev.MarginBounds.Height / printFont.GetHeight(ev.Graphics); // Iterate over the string using the StringReader, printing each line. while (count < linesPerPage && ((line = myReader.ReadLine()) != null)) { // calculate the next line position based on the height of the font according to the printing device yPosition = topMargin + (count * printFont.GetHeight(ev.Graphics)); // draw the next line in the rich edit control ev.Graphics.DrawString(line, printFont, myBrush, leftMargin, yPosition, new StringFormat()); count++; } // If there are more lines, print another page. if (line != null) ev.HasMorePages = true; else ev.HasMorePages = false; myBrush.Dispose(); } private void fileToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { } protected void exitToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { printDialog1.Document = ThePrintDocument; string strText = this.richTextBox1.Text; myReader = new StringReader(strText); if (printDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { try { this.ThePrintDocument.Print(); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); } finally { MessageBox.Show("Printer nt inistall"); } } } protected void printToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { try { string strText = this.richTextBox1.Text; myReader = new StringReader(strText); PrintPreviewDialog printPreviewDialog1 = new PrintPreviewDialog(); printPreviewDialog1.Document = this.ThePrintDocument; printPreviewDialog1.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.Fixed3D; printPreviewDialog1.ShowDialog(); } catch (Exception exp) { System.Console.WriteLine(exp.Message.ToString()); } } protected void ThePrintDocument_PrintPage(object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs ev) { float linesPerPage = 0; float yPosition = 0; int count = 0; float leftMargin = ev.MarginBounds.Left; float topMargin = ev.MarginBounds.Top; string line = null; Font printFont = this.richTextBox1.Font; SolidBrush myBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.Black); // Work out the number of lines per page, using the MarginBounds. linesPerPage = ev.MarginBounds.Height / printFont.GetHeight(ev.Graphics); // Iterate over the string using the StringReader, printing each line. while (count < linesPerPage && ((line = myReader.ReadLine()) != null)) { // calculate the next line position based on the height of the font according to the printing device yPosition = topMargin + (count * printFont.GetHeight(ev.Graphics)); // draw the next line in the rich edit control ev.Graphics.DrawString(line, printFont, myBrush, leftMargin, yPosition, new StringFormat()); count++; } // If there are more lines, print another page. if (line != null) ev.HasMorePages = true; else ev.HasMorePages = false; myBrush.Dispose(); } private void fileToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { } protected void exitToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { printDialog1.Document = ThePrintDocument; string strText = this.richTextBox1.Text; myReader = new StringReader(strText); if (printDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { try { this.ThePrintDocument.Print(); } catch (Exception ex) { MessageBox.Show(ex.Message); } finally { MessageBox.Show("Printer nt inistall"); } } } ]//closed

ur all example code very usefull to me.. thank u very much

this project only print .txt file but what about other types of file like docs. , pdf. is it possible to print these type of file also? reply asap

My printing size exeed or cut the top and bottom of the pdf when I try printing it with C# background code, but it fits correctly or prints correctly when I print by right clicking the pdf. Please help me. Thanks in advance. Here is ma code. ProcessStartInfo startInfo =new ProcessStartInfo(); startInfo.FileName = fileName; //try to keep Window hidden - work in background startInfo.UseShellExecute = true; startInfo.WindowStyle=ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden; startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true; //set process to startInfo and execute start process.StartInfo = startInfo; process.Start(); process.WaitForExit(10000); process.CloseMainWindow(); process.Close();

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Thanks for the article it really helped me to complete an exercise in adding print capabilities to a project. I'm working through an Element K course entitled "Visual C#.NET: Advanced" and your example is eerily similar. I do not have access to the source code so it is very difficult to try the exercises where the topic is beyond what I've already learned so your example really filled in the blanks. Thanks again.

thank you! it has been very helpful. I appreciate your posts specially this one.