How to get/make custom print control

I am working on a web project that will allow users to print reports. I want to allow users to use "print templates" (not sure if that is a valid name). like Quickbooks does with their invoices. In quickbooks it has a default print template that can be modified and saved.

Does anyone know if that kind of control can be purchased, or do I need to make my own? If I can buy one, does anyone have any recommendations? If I have to make one, can anyone point me to any resources to get me started? This will be used with ASP .NET 2.0 web pages using Visual Basic.

Thank you for your help.

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Originally Posted by Krenshau

I am working on a web project that will allow users to print reports. I want to allow users to use "print templates" (not sure if that is a valid name). like Quickbooks does with their invoices. In quickbooks it has a default print template that can be modified and saved.

Does anyone know if that kind of control can be purchased, or do I need to make my own? If I can buy one, does anyone have any recommendations? If I have to make one, can anyone point me to any resources to get me started? This will be used with ASP .NET 2.0 web pages using Visual Basic.

Thank you for your help.

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Hi,

Here's a link about Print Template Reference;

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de.../reference.asp

Hope it helps,

sparrow1

Thank you for that information. From what I read about that, it seems that those can only be used in C++. Also, they are to create templates that are not run time alterable, visually that is.

I have been googling, and looking at componentsource.com and crystal reports, but, so far, haven't found anything that will allow a user to change the layout of their report at run time. I don't want them to change what goes in the report, as far as data, just where the data is placed on the form, I guess printout would be a better word, at run time. Then they could "save template as".

Anyone else know of anything?

Thank you for your help.