Stephens' C# Programming with Visual Studio® 2010 24-Hour Trainer

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LESSON 31 Printing

TRY IT

In this Try It, you build a program that prints and displays a preview of the table shown in

Figure 31-2. You build an array of

Student objects and then loop through them displaying

their values as shown in the figure.

FIGURE 312

You can download the code and resources for this Try It from the book’s web

page at

www.wrox.com or www.CSharpHelper.com/24hour.html. You can find

them in the Lesson31 folder of the download.

Lesson Requirements

Start a new project and create the program’s main form. Add

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PrintDocument and

PrintPreviewDialog components to do the printing and previewing.

Add appropriate event handlers to the Preview and Print buttons.

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Add a

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Student class with FirstName and LastName properties. Also give it a TestScores

property that is an array of integers.

Create the

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PrintPage event handler.

Create an array of

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Student objects. Initialize them using array and object initializers.

Loop through the

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Student objects printing them using code similar to the code used

by the PrintText example program described earlier.

Draw a rectangle around the table.

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Hints

Don’t forget to set the

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PrintPreviewDialog’s Document property to the PrintDocument

component.

This example doesn’t do anything fancy with ...