The print job always prints to the windows default printer. Ticking print to file does nothing, changing the target printer does nothing, setting number of copies wanted does nothing. My code as follows:
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I am using .NET (VB) Graphics to print/preview reports in a pre-defined format (like tax forms), which works just fine. I would also like to be able to have the ability to accumulate one or more different reports and save them to a file for later conversion to PDF or to use the XPS print driver to print them.
When I check the "print to file" box (for a regular laser printer or the XPS print driver), and click "Print", I do not get an Open File dialog as this article suggests I should [URL]. The operation seems to proceed normally, but I have no idea where to find the file, if in fact one is created.
I am trying to change the printer settings without using the print dialog box, but it does not seem to be working for all settings. [Code]
View 18 RepliesI useing this code:
'method to capture the selected tabpages
Public Function printSelectedTabpage(ByVal tbcontrol As TabControl) As Bitmap
Dim bit As New Bitmap(tbcontrol.SelectedTab.Width + 5, tbcontrol.SelectedTab.Height + 20)
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I am using Printdialog() to get my report printed (.rdlc)I want to avoid this dialogue and send the report directly to the printer without user interference.
View 1 RepliesI need to save the user's printer preferences and reload them when the user reselects the printer.I can save them using the following code.
Dim ms As MemoryStream = _printDialog.PrintQueue.GetPrintCapabilitiesAsXml
Dim xmlFileName As String = String.Format("C:{0}", PrintHelper.RemoveNonAlphaNumericCharacters(_printDialog.PrintQueue.FullName))
Dim outStream As FileStream = File.OpenWrite(xmlFileName)
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I now need to reload these preferences into the PrintDialog.PrintTicket but don't know how to do this.
I'm using a System.Timers.Timer in a service that seems to keep ticking after it has been disabled. I'm using autoreset = false so I would expect it to only tick once unless I start it up again. I'm calling stop again, just for good measure, but the timer keeps on ticking.I'm using VB.NET in .net 1.1 and don't have the option to change frameworks.Here is a simple console app to reproduce the issue. This is not the actual code from the project.I believe the interval is long enought to prevent any thread issues in raising the event multiple times, but I will admit I'm not a threading expert.
Module Module1
Private Timer As New System.Timers.Timer(10000)
Sub Main()
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On the printer preferences side, paper size is Letter. So when i try printing a Rectangle it is cutting from the bottom, using following code. The reason i found is Printer is not listening the code to change the size from Letter to A4. Only then Length of page will be increased.[code]...
View 4 RepliesI am trying to use the font dialog settings with my print control.My code works fine - it prints. But how do I change the code to use the font dialog settings?Here is an example of my print code:
e.Graphics.DrawString("Date and Time: " & Now.ToString, _
New Font("Courier New", 10, FontStyle.Bold), _
Brushes.Black, 10, 38)
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1. I can't find the file which reflects changes to user settings. This might be because I just can't find it (I can see a bunch of user.config files but they are all empty - weird!), or...
2. I'm not actually saving them when I think I am.
Regarding 2. - do I need to invoke
Is this all I need? And if so, why are my user.configs empty?
I have created a settings-file for my plug-in-based app. When the mainApp writes the settings to the file, the pluginApp should read the settings from the settings-file (when opening or at runtime even better), but somehow it reads the settings from the app.config-file. This means that the pluginApp never will read the settings according the values of the file.
View 4 RepliesI saw that you can also use a "Settings File" (Add new Item)to add your settings instead of the application settings. But I can't seem to write any values to the file. Someone with experience with the "Settings1.settings"?
View 2 Replieshow to print to text file of query print job using vb.net?
View 2 RepliesI just completed moving my development platform from an XP machine to a Windows 7 machine. I have a very simple MyPrintDialog.ShowDialog statement that works on my XP machine, but on my Win 7 machine does nothing. The line is executed and no dialog appears and control simply passes to the next statement (no exception). I am running Win 7 professional and VS2008 targeting 2.0.
View 8 RepliesI am using Printdialog control in VB 10 but I am not able to choose de printer. Even choosing a specific printer in the Printdialog, it always prints in the default printer of the computer.
View 5 RepliesHow can i get the orientation which user has set through printdialog??i mean i need to get orientation as string to store it after printdialog closes. how can i do that?
View 4 RepliesIt seems that if I use .ShowDialog for a printdialog from a toolstripbutton then the dialog does not have focus, I have to click on it twice to change any options.. If I call it from a regular button or menu, it works fine...
I found that this was a confirmed bug but there was no posted workaround..
In my code I have a PrintDialog that allows the user to select a page range to print (the AllowSomePages property is set to true), but when a range is selected (ex: pages 2-3) in the dialog it still print all the pages in the document. I've been following the API documentation as well as articles/tutorials online but I still can't get it to work. Multiple copies print fine. Print to File works fine. Just the page range doesn't work.
I've tried manually setting the ToPage and FromPage members in the PrintDocument's PrinterSettings and DefaultPrinterSettings members as well as in the PrintDialog's PrinterSettings member. I've also set the MinimumPages and MaximumPages in each one with no success.
Here's some test code I've been trying to solve the problem with (...well the latest version anyway). The code is on a WinForm with one button (Button2).
Public PageCount As Integer
WithEvents Doc As New PrintDocument
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
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I design a form with menu . I used code application.exit() to exit a from. I'm looking printdialog.
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to iterate through the Windows.Forms.PrintDialog.PrinterSettings?
Something along the line of:
Dim pd as New Windows.Forms.PrintDialog.
If pd.ShowDialog = Forms.DialogResult.OK Then
For Each property as ??? in pd.PrinterSettings
'Do something
End If
my windows forms printdialog doesn't appear when i call showdialog.[code]
View 5 RepliesI'm using a 64 Bit Windows 7 system and trying to use PrintDialog. I know it doesn't work on Windows 7 unless you add this code: PrintDialog1.UseEXDialog = True. So I have added that code but then I get this error for the following code: Dim result As DialogResult = PrintDialog1.ShowDialog().
And the error: "An exception of type 'System.Runtime.InteropServices.SEHException' occurred in System. Windows.Forms.dll but was not handled in user code. Additional information: External component has thrown an exception."
I'm looking for a way to specify the location for the User.config file that is used for storing the My.Settings object. It appears that this is not possible. The problem for me is, I don't want to be responsible for creating several different files on the users computer that really have no use and are difficult to find and clean once an update is released. For most users, this is not a serious problem, as many will probably never update the software, and most will probably only go through a couple of updates. On my system, there are config files for every build of the application, and the same to a lesser extent will be true for my beta testers.
I can understand that MS wants to make sure that no two applications will use the same location for storing application data, but a simple [UserData] [CompanyName][ApplicationName] for storing application data will probably suffice for 99.9999 percent of the legitimate applications in the world. Bogging a user's system down with erroneous files, no matter how small, is an unnecessary drain on system resources and a potential source of problems for the user. It's bad enough that most programs leave bits and pieces of themselves all over a user's system after De-installation - this to me seems only to exaggerate this problem.
Is the only way to get around this problem to write a whole new Settings Class? Is there a way to change the location of the UserConfig file to a more friendly (and more predictable) location that I am not finding for myself? It would seem that having at least the OPTION to specify a location for the User.Config file would be OBVIOUS and easy to implement, so why did they leave this out?
before i use VB6 i was make multiple file for each settings, i try load my VB6 into VB.NET 2008 and code show like this
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FileOpen(1, My.Application.Info.DirectoryPath & "path.ini", OpenMode.Input)
Input(1, home1)
myWeb(X).Navigate(New System.URI((home1)))
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so each form load will read ini file, and form close save ini file
Im just wondering whats wrong with this line vb Dim lines As New List(Of String)(IO.File.ReadAllLines("/Settings.ini")) Well its working.. But it doesnt goes "/Settings.ini" just instead "C:/Settings.ini".. But I type "/Settings.ini".. how make it local folder?
View 2 RepliesI know there are allot of toppics about this subject, but i cannot find really what i need.
i need a file associations with settings.. so when you click for an example: "PC0210.config" it will start my program with some settings inside the "PC0210.config" File.
Lets say my program needs to give a message box with the PC name when you click the PC0210.config file.
that inside the PC0210.config file is something like: pcname="testPC"my program popsup with: testPC
Heres what I need:
1. A way to save settings (Exp.: userkey=randomkey)
2. A way to than read these settings from inside the form.
3. A way to convert settings to strings.
4. A way for users to edit settings
5. No external files.
i know about the My.Settings but i need to know how to save all the settings in a .ini Text file for example I GOT A SOURCE :: BUT THE GET SETTINGS DOESN'T WORK || Save settings DOES work
[Settings]
Textbox1=Name
Textbox2=Last
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lets say i have a checkedlistbox in my program and i want to save everything that is checked in an xml file so it will be checked again when i start up the program the next time, how can i do this ?
View 6 RepliesI am working on a file explorer, and I want to save the view settings of each folder, like the icon size, font size, ect.. I was thinking of using an xml file to save these settings.
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