Question Displaying Printer Information

[wasps]

Hi, I hope you can help me.

I've just recently started writing vb.net applications and don't have much experience in this kind of development, most of my background is database development.

I need to display a list of the locally installed printers, but I also need to display information such as Print Server name and IP Address.

So far, I can only find out how to display a printer name, but no other details.


Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[wasps]

In case anyone else wants to do this, i've managed to find a way to do it.
However, I'm pretty sure it's not the best method.

What I did was to loop through the keys in the registry to display the printer name, and then use the relevant registry values to get whatever other information I required.

 

[JohnH]

You can query WMI and Win32_Printer class. See thread http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/articles-interest/13972-wmi-code-creator-1-0-a.html to get started with WMI.