String Printing in VB.net

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Hi Guys,

I am just starting out with printing in VB.Net.

I have had a look around and seem to find a lot of information around System.Drawing.Printing which I have played around with. But I can not figure out how to pass a string to that to print. Something as simple as:

dim Text as String = "This is test text"

System.Drawing.Printing.(PrintText) "I know printtext is not a function" = Text
System.Drawing.Printing.Print()

Am I looking in the wrong spot to do what I want to do, System.Drawing.Printing only seems to support printing out a file that already exists.

Thanks,

Caz

Posted 29-Jul-12 15:41pm

Zac Newman

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Christian Graus · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-29T15:46:00

Solution 1

I found this[^] with google.

Posted 29-Jul-12 15:46pm

Christian Graus

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Zac Newman 31-Jul-12 1:17am

Thanks for confirming what I was doing, after a heap of time wasted I figured out that it was .Net not wanting to play with shared printers which was leading to my issues.

Trak4Net · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-29T20:50:00

Solution 2

You will need to research the PrintDocument. The PrintDocument object has a PrintPage event that you handle and has a graphics object that you can draw text, shapes, images on.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.printdocument(v=vs.71).aspx[^]

Posted 29-Jul-12 20:50pm

Trak4Net