Thanks, that was a very handy examply you provided and it was helpful. I see now that I was simply opening a print preview window.
My remaining problem is however that I need to select the entire contents of the datagridview to send to the print preview. How can I do this. me.datagridview.rows/ .columns/........ I need to get all rows and all cols including headers. Thanks, Laura On Feb 19, 3:01 pm, The_Fruitman <[email protected]> wrote: > How does your print preview dialog know what document to display in > the print preview? The code you've listed here only tells the > computer to show the print preview window. > > http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_net_print_and_preview.html > > On Feb 19, 6:49 am, Laura <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > I need to be able to print the entire contents of a datagridview or > > even if you have to select/highlight the columns/rows to print. > > > I have the printdialog, printdocument and a printpreviewdialog on the > > form already. I got some code from a friend to print but the code she > > gave me was for printing the contents of a listbox and while I've > > adjusted it a little, I know its not right. > > > I've been looking it up online a bit and found a good few sample > > projects/code and all of them seem really complex - formatting the > > contents of every cell, etc. > > > Here's the code I have so far anyway; > > > Private Sub PrintToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As > > System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles > > PrintToolStripMenuItem.Click > > If Me.PrintDialog1.ShowDialog = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK > > Then > > Me.PrintDocument1.Print() > > End If > > End Sub > > > Private Sub PrintDocument1_PrintPage(ByVal sender As > > System.Object, ByVal e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) > > Handles PrintDocument1.PrintPage > > Dim x As Integer = e.MarginBounds.Left > > Dim y As Single = e.MarginBounds.Top > > Dim lineheight As Single = Me.DataGridView1.Font.GetHeight > > (e.Graphics) > > For Each item As String In Me.DataGridView1.Rows > > e.Graphics.DrawString(item, Me.DataGridView1.Font, > > Brushes.Black, x, y) > > y += lineheight > > Next > > End Sub > > > Private Sub PrintPreviewToolStripMenuItem1_Click(ByVal sender As > > System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles > > PrintPreviewToolStripMenuItem1.Click > > PrintPreviewDialog1.ShowDialog() > > End Sub > > > Just to add, what happens when I run the project is if I hit the print > > button, the print dialog thing comes up, but I don't even have my > > laptop connected to a printer, and if I bring up the print preview > > thing, it has nothing to preview. > > > I know the line for each item as string in me.datagridview1.rows > > probably isn't right is it? > > > Any advice on what I need to do to get this code going?? > > > Thanks- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
