C# printing

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I have looked all around the web and I find print articles like in
codeproject or msdn but I am looking for a simple article that will explain
how to print the content of a form. Can any one please help me

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:36:31 -0700, freddy
<fr****@discussions.microsoft.comwrote:

I have looked all around the web and I find print articles like in
codeproject or msdn but I am looking for a simple article that will
explain
how to print the content of a form. Can any one please help me

Define "content of a form". If you want the exact graphics the form
displays on the screen to be printed, there's not really a good .NET way
to do that. You can use the Control.DrawToBitmap() method to get the
visible part of a form into a bitmap, but it's not a general-purpose
solution (it's affected by on-screen clipping).

But if you simply want to reformat the data contained in the form's
controls and print that, then that's not too difficult at all. The MSDN
documentation does in fact describe this to some extent, so if you're
simply having trouble understanding what the MSDN documentation is trying
to say, please refer to whatever specific pages you would like help with.

Pete

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I just want to print the content of a windows form
ex. if I have 10 labels and 10 textbox I want to print the 10 labels and the
contrent(text) of the textbox

Thanks for responding

"Peter Duniho" wrote:

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:36:31 -0700, freddy
<fr****@discussions.microsoft.comwrote:

I have looked all around the web and I find print articles like in
codeproject or msdn but I am looking for a simple article that will
explain
how to print the content of a form. Can any one please help me

Define "content of a form". If you want the exact graphics the form
displays on the screen to be printed, there's not really a good .NET way
to do that. You can use the Control.DrawToBitmap() method to get the
visible part of a form into a bitmap, but it's not a general-purpose
solution (it's affected by on-screen clipping).

But if you simply want to reformat the data contained in the form's
controls and print that, then that's not too difficult at all. The MSDN
documentation does in fact describe this to some extent, so if you're
simply having trouble understanding what the MSDN documentation is trying
to say, please refer to whatever specific pages you would like help with.

Pete

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:05:01 -0700, freddy
<fr****@discussions.microsoft.comwrote:

I just want to print the content of a windows form
ex. if I have 10 labels and 10 textbox I want to print the 10 labels and
the
contrent(text) of the textbox

But what do you want the printout to look like? Is it sufficient for the
printout to contain the same text as your controls? Or do you want the
exact same graphics on the printout as what you see on the screen?

The latter is poorly supported. The former is not hard and is documented
in MSDN. Without knowing more about what you actually want to do, as well
as what you've already learned and tried, there's too much ambiguity in
your question to make it possible to answer in any sort of concise, direct
way.

Pete

[Jeff Louie]

I have done this by writing my own printable controls, labels, textboxes
etc, that
know how to print themselves, but it became too involved when trying to
calculate positions beyond one page and there was not much interest, so
I
dropped the project. For one page, it is not that hard to do:

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/C-Sha...ing-C-sharp/1/
http://www.geocities.com/jeff_louie/OOP/oop24.htm

Regards,
Jeff

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