Printing?

[shamu]

Hi all.
I cut my programming teeth on GW Basic way back in the 80's and I am slowly trying to migrate to VB.
My question is this, How do I print something from within VB? All the articles I've read seem to direct me towards Crystal Reports which appears complicated, is'nt there a simpler way? In GW a simple LPRINT blah blah would have done, is there an alternative in VB.
Thanks in anticipation.

 

[jmcilhinney]

Forget Crystal Reports. Anyone who recommends that just for printing is being rather foolish. .NET provides a printing subsystem centred around the PrintDocument class and using GDI+. Anything you can draw with GDI+, you can print. In short, create a PrintDocument, call the Print method, handle the PrintPage event and then use GDI+ to print a page. It may seem a little complex for simple things but that complexity provides great power so, as I said, you can print just about anything. Start by reading the documentation for the PrintDocument class. You can then search for printing examples and, if you want to get fancy, GDI+ examples.

 

[thugster69]

Do you have any snippets for this @jmcilhinney?

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

Do you have any snippets for this @jmcilhinney?

Best code sample available: PrintDocument Class (System.Drawing.Printing)