Chapter 20. Printing with Visual Basic 2008
The topic of printing with Visual Basic is a not trivial, and many developers use third-party tools to add print capabilities to their applications. As you already know, there's no control with built-in printing capabilities. It would be nice if certain controls, such as the TextBox or the ListView control, would print their contents, but this is not the case. Even to print a few text paragraphs entered by the user on a TextBox control, you must provide your own code.
Printing with VB isn't complicated, but it requires a lot of code — most of it calling graphics methods. You must carefully calculate the coordinates of each graphic element placed on the paper, take into consideration the settings of the ...
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