Monitor my Printers

[Kevin]

Hi All,

I am fairly new to C#, but I do have Programming
experience in VB, and the best way to learn C# is by
doing, so I want to create an application that can monitor
printers connected to my PC, via USB,LPT and possibly COM
ports. What I want to do is be able to run my app and
after a week, of people printing to my printers(My
printers are shared on the network), I want to be able to
say that bob printed x amount of documents, John printed x
amount, and even if I can, narrow it down to the actual
documents types etc. So in short, the info that I see when
I double click on my printer, I want to be able to store
that info and read from it later. I would like to know how
to capture that kind of info, Can anyone point me in the
right direction, or give me some tips?

TIA
Kevin

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

Look at the System.Management namespace and the Win32_Printjob WMI class
classes in MSDN.

Willy.

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Hi All,

I am fairly new to C#, but I do have Programming
experience in VB, and the best way to learn C# is by
doing, so I want to create an application that can monitor
printers connected to my PC, via USB,LPT and possibly COM
ports. What I want to do is be able to run my app and
after a week, of people printing to my printers(My
printers are shared on the network), I want to be able to
say that bob printed x amount of documents, John printed x
amount, and even if I can, narrow it down to the actual
documents types etc. So in short, the info that I see when
I double click on my printer, I want to be able to store
that info and read from it later. I would like to know how
to capture that kind of info, Can anyone point me in the
right direction, or give me some tips?

TIA
Kevin