PrintDialog class and ASP.NET ??

hanglam · Oct 6, 2003

Hi, I'm designing a .aspx web page that allows a user to print a document when they click a button. I want to be able to let the user be able to pick a printer by displaying a PrintDialog screen. In VB.NEt, I will use the PrintDialog class to display the dialog but I can't seem to do it in ASP.NET.

My question is : how do I display a PrintDialog in ASP.NET ?
or a better question is how do I do server-side printing in ASP.NET?

Thanks,
Hang

qwert231 · Oct 6, 2003

I can tell you what you can't do. You can initiate a Print Dialog box using VB.Net on the clients computer. You can, however, use a little bit of javascript like this:

Code:

  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
<!-- Begin
function varitext(text){
text=document
print(text)
}
//  End -->
  </SCRIPT>
 </HEAD>
<body onload=&quot;varitext();&quot;>

in your aspx page. This simply gives them a browser print dialog box, which will print whatever they see in their browser window.

Now, as far as your code triggering a page to be printed on the server side? I wouldn't mind learning about that myself. I would assume you would have to create a class which would be derived from PrintDocument that sat on the server and would be called from your WebForm code.

neilkonitzer · Oct 6, 2003

Adding this line of code in your code-behind file will cause the Print Dialog to appear in your client's browser.

RegisterStartupScript("printscript", "<script>window.print();</script>&quot

Neil Konitzer
Freisoft

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