How can I use the Print Dialog

Question

If you go in Visual Studio 2005 to the following (or just do ctrl+p): File ==> Print..

You get a print dialog screen. I want the same in my program, but how?

Answer 1

This dialog box is a so-called common dialog, a built-in Windows dialog that can be used by multiple applications.

To use this dialog box in your C# application, you can use the PrintDialog class. The following MSDN pages contains descriptions as well as some sample code:

• WinForms: System.Windows.Forms.PrintDialog
• WPF: System.Windows.Controls.PrintDialog (thanks to Bartosz)

Answer 2

If you use WPF, you may use PrintDialog: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.controls.printdialog.aspx

if you're into WinForms you may use...PrintDialog: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.printdialog.aspx