Printing from a form

[cjohnson]

I have several applications where I would like the user to fill in some information on a form, let the form calculate some values, and then print the form as is on screen. Is there any easy way to do this, or any way I can program to print any form from one function?
Thanks,
Chris

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

this may help:

http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/showpost.php?p=3320&postcount=4

it takes a picture of the form then prints it

 

[cjohnson]

Thanks. That is a big help.
By the way. I like your tagline. Did you also know...
There are 11 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

yup, it's cute, kind of like this one:
Windows is a set of 32 bit extensions on a 16 bit shell for an 8 bit OS using a 4 bit kernel made by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.

 

[Bob Langlade]

PrintForm Component 1.0

You can download the PrintForm Component from Microsoft at this address:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/aa701261.aspx

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

naw that's neat, too bad it's for VS 2005

 

[cjohnson]

I loved the PrintForm component from Microsoft. I like using this better than using a downloaded module, however, I am having one problem. I can set the page orientation, etc. but I can't set the margins. I tried setting them in the PrintForm.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings, but no matter what I do, it prints in the top left corner at 0,0. I even tried something I saw online which was to set this in the Form_Load as shown below, but didn't help. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Chris

Private Sub frmSimpleForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
   Dim newMargins As System.Drawing.Printing.Margins
   newMargins = New System.Drawing.Printing.Margins(50, 50, 50, 50)
   Me.PrintForm1.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.Margins = newMargins
   Me.PrintForm1.PrinterSettings.DefaultPageSettings.Landscape = True
End Sub

 

[Turbols1]

I know this is an old post, but wanted to add that the above code for the margins worked great for me in .net 3.5