Old Style Printer.hDC

[rusha]

Hi All,
I need to print the contents of a 3rd Party imaging control. In vb6 I could do this -

myControl.prnHDC = Printer.hDC
myControl.PrintImage
Printer.EndDoc

Any ideas how I can do this in .NET.

The .NET SDK tells me the old Printer.HDC property is no longer needed because the PrintDocument class is a device context itself.

I can't seem to find a way to hook the image data to the Graphics object either. If I do this -

myControl.hDC = e.Graphics.GetHDC

The IDE tells me it cannot convert a System.IntStr to an Integer. All of myControl's hdc properties are Integers.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

TIA

[Frans C]

I think you mean IntPtr and not IntStr. You must have Option Strict On, which is a good thing though. This means you must explicitly convert the IntPtr to an integer, because implicit conversions are not allowed.
Try someting like this:
myControl.hDC = e.Graphics.GetHDC.ToInt32

[rusha]

Yes..I meant IntPtr (as you pointed out)

I'll give your advice a try.

Thanks.