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Printer Monitor - take 2

Hi al

Please can someone point me in a right direction/tell me how to go about building an appliation that can monitor the printer queue on a windows platform(2000,XP,NT and 2003). What are the steps I need to follow in order to monitor the queues and store the info eg have a counter to count the number of pages printed by a specific username. I have a a brief look on the web and I have had no problem finding limited VB.NET stuff, but I want C# examples, and I would like to work with the windows API's, instead of downloading a component, because then most likely I will have to buy the component... So I was wondering does anyone here know how to do this, or know of any C# resources that explain this concept well

I am not an exteme newbie to c# but I am still learning and I would like to make this my "learning" project, so any help/suggestions on this topic will be immensly appreciated

Thanks in advanc
Kevi

Nov 16 '05 #1
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Take a look at the System.Management namespace classes, these are simple
wrapper arround WMI, and WMI contains a number of CIM classes to manage
printers and print queues.
Search MSDN for win32_printer.

Willy.
"Kevin" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi all

Please can someone point me in a right direction/tell me how to go about
building an appliation that can monitor the printer queue on a windows
platform(2000,XP,NT and 2003). What are the steps I need to follow in
order to monitor the queues and store the info eg have a counter to count
the number of pages printed by a specific username. I have a a brief look
on the web and I have had no problem finding limited VB.NET stuff, but I
want C# examples, and I would like to work with the windows API's, instead
of downloading a component, because then most likely I will have to buy
the component... So I was wondering does anyone here know how to do this,
or know of any C# resources that explain this concept well.

I am not an exteme newbie to c# but I am still learning and I would like
to make this my "learning" project, so any help/suggestions on this topic
will be immensly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Kevin

Nov 16 '05 #2
Thanks Willy

Will check it ou

Kevin
Nov 16 '05 #3
Take a look at the System.Management namespace classes, these are simple
wrapper arround WMI, and WMI contains a number of CIM classes to manage
printers and print queues.
Search MSDN for win32_printer.

Willy.
"Kevin" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:14**********************************@microsof t.com...
Hi all

Please can someone point me in a right direction/tell me how to go about
building an appliation that can monitor the printer queue on a windows
platform(2000,XP,NT and 2003). What are the steps I need to follow in
order to monitor the queues and store the info eg have a counter to count
the number of pages printed by a specific username. I have a a brief look
on the web and I have had no problem finding limited VB.NET stuff, but I
want C# examples, and I would like to work with the windows API's, instead
of downloading a component, because then most likely I will have to buy
the component... So I was wondering does anyone here know how to do this,
or know of any C# resources that explain this concept well.

I am not an exteme newbie to c# but I am still learning and I would like
to make this my "learning" project, so any help/suggestions on this topic
will be immensly appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Kevin

Nov 16 '05 #4
Thanks Willy

Will check it ou

Kevin
Nov 16 '05 #5

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