The
PrintForm component in the VB PowerPacks was a bit of a hack anyway. It's rare that you should ever want to print a picture of the form itself, rather than a formatted version of the data in the form, so it should rarely have been used anyway. You should do what everyone did before the
PrintForm component and what pretty much all experienced developers kept doing, which is use the standard
PrintDocument component. That's what the
PrintForm does internally anyway, but doing it yourself gives you full control. Add a
PrintDocument to your form in the designer, handle its
PrintPage event and call its
Print method on the
Click of a
Button or whatever. In the event handler, you use the
Graphics object provided to draw your text with whatever formatting options you want. Start by reading the relevant
documentation, do a bit of experimentation yourself and see what you can achieve, then post back with specific questions if something comes up.
