Can anyone recommend a print contol library please?
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From: Alan on 24 Mar 2010 15:02 Hello, Can anyone recommend print control libraries for VB .Net please? I'm writing an app to print the attachments of mail messages and it's difficult to handle PDF, Office and any possible graphic file format via the standard printprocess. Ideally, I'd just like to save the attachments to disk and and then pass the filenames to a control, which would popup the standard print dialog or just print. Thanks, - Alan.
From: Rich P on 24 Mar 2010 15:12 If I am reading your question correctly, you are trying to print the contents of an email attachment from your .net app -- bypassing having to open the attachment. If you are reading the contents from your code you can then place these contents into a .Net report control (rdlc file) and then use emf to print that out. Here's a link where you can print using EMF with a .rdlc file: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.cre atestreamcallback(VS.80).aspx Rich *** Sent via Developersdex http://www.developersdex.com ***
From: Alan on 24 Mar 2010 16:43 Thanks Rich. Yes, I'm saving the attachments to a temp directory, then printing them out. Problem is that the different potential types need to be handled differently, e.g, PDF vs Word. First time I've heard of EMF so I'll check it out... On Mar 24, 8:12 pm, Rich P <rpng...(a)aol.com> wrote: > If I am reading your question correctly, you are trying to print the > contents of an email attachment from your .net app -- bypassing having > to open the attachment. If you are reading the contents from your code > you can then place these contents into a .Net report control (rdlc file) > and then use emf to print that out. > > Here's a link where you can print using EMF with a .rdlc file: > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.cre > atestreamcallback(VS.80).aspx > > Rich > > *** Sent via Developersdexhttp://www.developersdex.com***
From: Cor Ligthert[MVP] on 25 Mar 2010 03:57 Alan, You can use Crystal Reports or a 3th party tool. For your problem I would probably take the Visual Basic powerpack and follow the Print part of that. (If it is not PDF otherwise I would probably simple create an application start with the PDF in it, and then it) Cor "Alan" <bruguy(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:f8b25ed4-681e-43da-8081-631cee2f8f78(a)g11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com... > Thanks Rich. > > Yes, I'm saving the attachments to a temp directory, then printing > them out. Problem is that the different potential types need to be > handled differently, e.g, PDF vs Word. > > First time I've heard of EMF so I'll check it out... > > On Mar 24, 8:12 pm, Rich P <rpng...(a)aol.com> wrote: >> If I am reading your question correctly, you are trying to print the >> contents of an email attachment from your .net app -- bypassing having >> to open the attachment. If you are reading the contents from your code >> you can then place these contents into a .Net report control (rdlc file) >> and then use emf to print that out. >> >> Here's a link where you can print using EMF with a .rdlc file: >> >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.cre >> atestreamcallback(VS.80).aspx >> >> Rich >> >> *** Sent via Developersdexhttp://www.developersdex.com*** >
From: Alan on 25 Mar 2010 15:22
Thanks Cor. Just to be clear, I don't want to display the files or make any reports. All I want to do is basically pass the filename and get it printed out, regardless of whether it's a TIF, DOC or XLS file. PrintForms will handkle that? If not, can you name any 3rd party components pls? Thanks. On Mar 25, 8:57 am, "Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <Notmyfirstn...(a)planet.nl> wrote: > Alan, > > You can use Crystal Reports or a 3th party tool. > > For your problem I would probably take the Visual Basic powerpack and follow > the Print part of that. > (If it is not PDF otherwise I would probably simple create an application > start with the PDF in it, and then it) > > Cor > > "Alan" <bru...(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:f8b25ed4-681e-43da-8081-631cee2f8f78(a)g11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com... > > > Thanks Rich. > > > Yes, I'm saving the attachments to a temp directory, then printing > > them out. Problem is that the different potential types need to be > > handled differently, e.g, PDF vs Word. > > > First time I've heard of EMF so I'll check it out... > > > On Mar 24, 8:12 pm, Rich P <rpng...(a)aol.com> wrote: > >> If I am reading your question correctly, you are trying to print the > >> contents of an email attachment from your .net app -- bypassing having > >> to open the attachment. If you are reading the contents from your code > >> you can then place these contents into a .Net report control (rdlc file) > >> and then use emf to print that out. > > >> Here's a link where you can print using EMF with a .rdlc file: > > >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.cre > >> atestreamcallback(VS.80).aspx > > >> Rich > > >> *** Sent via Developersdexhttp://www.developersdex.com*** |