Printing in VB 2008

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dear all programmers,

i need help here.. i am about creating invoice form and then i got stuck about printing the invoice. i have save the datagridview into database using dataset.

please help me to print the invoice. give me some usefull code. :((
maybe i can print directly from the xml file or from dataset or maybe from the datagridview.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH :rose:

(NB : i don't want to use Crystal Report, coz it's very slow while trying to load the data)

Posted 8-Dec-10 20:38pm

siang_wu_id

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Prerak Patel · Answer 1 · 2010-12-09T02:01:00

Solution 1

If all you want is there in datagridview itself, then this will help you.

The DataGridViewPrinter Class[^]

Posted 9-Dec-10 2:01am

Prerak Patel

Niraj.sharma4 · Answer 2 · 2010-12-09T17:21:00

This code is my.
print previw and print.

this code is run in my computer.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
using System.Drawing.Printing;

namespace printing_a_form
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
private PrintDocument pd = new PrintDocument();
private PrintDialog pd1 = new PrintDialog();
private PrintPreviewDialog ppd = new PrintPreviewDialog();
private PageSetupDialog pst = new PageSetupDialog();
private PageSettings ps = new PageSettings();
Bitmap m;
int x = 0;
int y = 0;
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
}

private void button4_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CaptureScreen();
pd1.Document = pd;
DialogResult res = pd1.ShowDialog();
if (res == DialogResult.OK )
{
pd.Print();
}

}
private void CaptureScreen()
{
Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics();
Size s = this.Size;
m = new Bitmap(s.Width, s.Height, g);
Graphics g1 = Graphics.FromImage(m);
g1.CopyFromScreen(this.Location.X, this.Location.Y,0,0,s);
}
private void pd_PrintPage(System.Object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
e.Graphics.DrawImage(m, x, y);
}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pd.PrintPage +=new PrintPageEventHandler(pd_PrintPage);

}

private void button5_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CaptureScreen();
ppd.Document = pd;
ppd.ShowDialog();
}

private void button6_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
pst.PageSettings = ps;
if (pst.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
x = pst.PageSettings.Margins.Left;
y = pst.PageSettings.Margins.Right;
MessageBox.Show(pst.PageSettings.Landscape.ToString());
MessageBox.Show(pst.PageSettings.Margins.ToString() );
}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

}
}