Get available printers

[Jeff Williams]

I am looking for a way to get the list of printers and there port name
so I can populate a combobox.

What I need to do is get the printer name and if it is a network printer
the path and share name.

Place the printer name in a combobox and the share name as a value in
the combo box which I can then pass to another .net application.

I would appreciate any help or links to code which would show how to do
this.

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\)]

Jeff,

Installed printers you can get from PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters

Look at the MSDN for this property the article there comes with a sample
code.
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HTH
Stoitcho Goutsev (100)

"Jeff Williams" <je***********@hardsoft.com.auwrote in message
news:12*************@corp.supernews.com...

>I am looking for a way to get the list of printers and there port name so I
can populate a combobox.

What I need to do is get the printer name and if it is a network printer
the path and share name.

Place the printer name in a combobox and the share name as a value in the
combo box which I can then pass to another .net application.

I would appreciate any help or links to code which would show how to do
this.

[Eric Moreau]

See an article I wrote in March 2005 from http://emoreau.s2i.com/

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HTH

Éric Moreau, MCSD, Visual Developer - Visual Basic MVP
Conseiller Principal / Senior Consultant
S2i web inc. (www.s2i.com)
http://emoreau.s2i.com/

"Jeff Williams" <je***********@hardsoft.com.auwrote in message
news:12*************@corp.supernews.com...

>I am looking for a way to get the list of printers and there port name so I
can populate a combobox.

What I need to do is get the printer name and if it is a network printer
the path and share name.

Place the printer name in a combobox and the share name as a value in the
combo box which I can then pass to another .net application.

I would appreciate any help or links to code which would show how to do
this.