How can I use the Print Dialog

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If you go in Visual Studio 2005 to the following (or just do ctrl+p): File ==> Print..

You get a print dialog screen. I want the same in my program, but how?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:22

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This dialog box is a so-called common dialog, a built-in Windows dialog that can be used by multiple applications.

To use this dialog box in your C# application, you can use the PrintDialog class. The following MSDN pages contains descriptions as well as some sample code:

WinForms: System.Windows.Forms.PrintDialog
WPF: System.Windows.Controls.PrintDialog (thanks to Bartosz)

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answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:06

Heinzi

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:07

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If you use WPF, you may use PrintDialog: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.printdialog.aspx

if you're into WinForms you may use...PrintDialog: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.printdialog.aspx

answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:07

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:11

For the CTRL+P shortcut: Add a toolbar (I think it was called ToolStrip) to your form, put an entry in it to wich you assign the shortcut CTRL+P from the properties panel. For the PrintDialog: Add a PrintDialog control to your form and set the Document property to the document that should be printed. Go into the code for the click event of your print entry in the toolbar. Add the code PrintDialog.ShowDialog(); to it, check if the Print button was clicked, and if so, print it using DocumentToPrint.Print();. Here's an example:

private void Button1_Click(System.Object sender, 
        System.EventArgs e)
    {

        // Allow the user to choose the page range he or she would
        // like to print.
        PrintDialog1.AllowSomePages = true;

        // Show the help button.
        PrintDialog1.ShowHelp = true;

        // Set the Document property to the PrintDocument for 
        // which the PrintPage Event has been handled. To display the
        // dialog, either this property or the PrinterSettings property 
        // must be set 
        PrintDialog1.Document = docToPrint;

        DialogResult result = PrintDialog1.ShowDialog();

        // If the result is OK then print the document.
        if (result==DialogResult.OK)
        {
            docToPrint.Print();
        }

    }

Example source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.printdialog.document.aspx

Thank you for the fleshed-out example. – octopusgrabbus Jul 07 '16 at 14:15 — octopusgrabbus, Jul 07 '16 at 14:15

Fischermaen · Answer 4 · 2012-01-10T16:58:46.757

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You can have a standard print dialog with this:

var printDialog = new PrintDialog();
printDialog.ShowDialog();

... but printing has to be done by yourself ... ;-)

Edit: For all those who still use VisualStudio2005:

PrintDialog printDialog = new PrintDialog();
printDialog.ShowDialog();

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Oh come on - do the Math and change it to `PrintDialog printDialog = new PrintDialog()` yourself... *rolleyes* – Thorsten Dittmar Jan 10 '12 at 10:21
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@ThorstenDittmar: No, Thorsten, I will not do that. In every case, where it is clear which type a variable has, I will write a `var`. I am a "man of conviction" in that case. :-) – Fischermaen Jan 10 '12 at 13:06
@Fischermaen: I was talking to Remco ;-) – Thorsten Dittmar Jan 10 '12 at 13:55
@ThorstenDittmar: oops, missed that. Sorry – Fischermaen Jan 10 '12 at 16:56

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:06

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Umm, you can use the cleverly named PrintDialog class....

answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:06

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score 0 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:07

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If your using WinForms to build your UI, then you can use the native PrintDialog control (see here). So far as I know, that should appear in the Toolbox in the designer mode of a WinForms control.

answered Nov 08 '11 at 14:07

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