Printing in .Net

Does anyone know how to print. Every quickstart tutorial I tried failed. Printing in .Net cannot be as hard as it has been so far. I even found things that were not part of classes.

All I want to do is print a file. Even the books I have and the websites out there leave the answer out of the explanation. They explain what printing is. I know what I want it to do, I just need to figure out how.

I'm thinking 1.Load Printer objects - 2.Load document - 3.Select printer - 4.Print document.

Based on the info out there printing is an obscure task and everyone uses felt tip pens and have monks to make hand copies but I would have to guess that somebody else has tried to print something in VB.Net.

VB Code:

Private StreamToPrint As IO.StreamReader 
 
Private Sub PrintDocument1_PrintPage(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles PrintDocument1.PrintPage 
        Dim LinesPerPage As Single = e.MarginBounds.Height / PrintFont.GetHeight(e.Graphics) 
        Dim Line As String = Nothing, count As Integer, yPos As Single = 0 
        For count = 0 To LinesPerPage - 1 
            Line = StreamToPrint.ReadLine 
            If Line Is Nothing Then Exit For 
            yPos = e.MarginBounds.Top + count * PrintFont.GetHeight(e.Graphics) 
            e.Graphics.DrawString(Line, PrintFont, Brushes.Black, e.MarginBounds.Left, yPos, New StringFormat()) 
        Next 
        If Not (Line Is Nothing) Then e.HasMorePages = True 
End Sub 
 
Private Sub MenuItemPrint_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItemPrint.Click 
        StreamToPrint = New IO.StreamReader("temp.xml") 
        PrintDialog1.Document = PrintDocument1 
        PrintDialog1.PrinterSettings = PrintDocument1.PrinterSettings 
        PrintDialog1.AllowSomePages = True 
        If PrintDialog1.ShowDialog = DialogResult.OK Then 
            PrintDocument1.PrinterSettings = PrintDialog1.PrinterSettings 
            PrintDocument1.Print() 
            If Not (StreamToPrint Is Nothing) Then 
                StreamToPrint.Close() 
            End If 
        End If 
End Sub

Thanks jkw119,


If anyone is interested, this code works. I found some similiar code last night and tried it out. Looks like I will be using it a lot for priniting reports after performing functionality tests so I tossed the code into a class to make life easier.