Sams Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours

Chapter 11. Output

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Printing

• Visuals

• Bitmaps

Up to now, we have focused almost entirely on the capability of WPF to render output to users via a graphical display. WPF has many capabilities, though, and is not limited to this single form of output. Modern software must enable users to consume their data in a variety of formats.

Making the Text Editor Print

At this point, our text editor is almost finished. One major feature is missing: printing. It turns out that printing the contents of a RichTextBox is quite easy. Let’s get to it:

1. Open the Text Editor project in Visual Studio and open the MainWindow.xaml file.

2. Add the following to the window’s CommandBindings:

   <CommandBinding Command="ApplicationCommands.Print"
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