How do I populate a report with data in the background and print?

[tgf-47]

Using Microsoft Reports, can you populate a report with data and print it with out showing it?

IE : If a user is on the invoice screen and wants to print it out.
It populates the report with the data, without the user being aware of this (All happening in the background),
and then print the report?


to sum it all up:

From the users perspective:
1) Clicks print.
2) Neat report with all the data jumps out of the printer

From the programmers perspective:
1) User clicks on print
2) In the background the application populates a report and then sends it to the print que to be printed.
3) Neat report with all the data jumps out of the printer


How do I achieve this?

[jggtz]

Using Microsoft Reports, can you populate a report with data and print it with out showing it?

Showing what?
The preview?

[tgf-47]

Yes. see I have an invoice screen that reads out of a database. The data is displayed in textboxes on the form.
There is a print button on the form. I want the data file currently displayed on the form to be used to populate a report and then print it( To make the printout look better ). Thing is I want all this to happen in the background without the user ever seeing it or even knowing about it. In other words the user doesn't even know that the report exists.

[jggtz]

Don't know about MS Reports, but in others reporting programs we just send the report directly to the printer instead of sending to the preview window... that's it we can do it form our project's code

JG