Printing

[MadDogsDad]

I'm new to VB2005 and was told to look for a dotnet group. Am I in the right
place!?!
I have a form with a variety of controls which provide criteria for a data
search, which is triggered by a button. The results of the search are stored
in a two dimensional array. The array is then diplayed on the form as items
in an 11 column ListView object. I want to have a button on my form that will
send the listview (or the contents of the array) to my printer. I've looked
at samples and researched my ref. books and on line help, but I'm now more
confused than when I started. Help!

 

[Terry]

You didn't mention what your background is. If its VB6 you may want to look
at Visual Basic PowerPcaks V2.0 for a VB6 like way to print.
If you need to do a lot of reports, I would suggest you bite the bullet and
learn Crystal reports, although I am not sure about using an array as a
datasource.
The other posibility is that you learn the .Net way of printing - the
PrintDocument class. I think the way to use this class is to inherit from
it, so that you can 'maintain state'. Here is a link...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/02/printinginnet/

HTH

 

[Alex Clark]

The other posibility is that you learn the .Net way of printing - the

PrintDocument class. I think the way to use this class is to inherit from
it, so that you can 'maintain state'. Here is a link...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/02/printinginnet/

....which is now already obselete in favour of the uber-cryptic and virtually
undocumented XPS printing methods in .NET 3.x... ;-)

 

[Terry]

I have not spent any time looking at VS2008 yet. Why does it not surprise me
that MS has changed the paradigm once again? I am getting way to old to keep
paying the "technology tax" over and over again!