Sams Teach Yourself .Net in 21 Days

By Jason Beres

• Table of Contents
  • Copyright
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Editor
  • Acknowledgments
  • We Want to Hear from You
  • Introduction
  • Week 1: At a Glance
  • Day 1. Introduction to the Microsoft .NET Framework
  • Day 2. Introduction to Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 3. Writing Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 4. Deploying Windows Forms Applications
  • Day 5. Writing ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 6. Deploying ASP.NET Applications
  • Day 7. Exceptions, Debugging, and Tracing
  • Week 1. In Review
  • Week 2: At a Glance
  • Day 8. Core Language Concepts in Visual Basic .NET and C#
  • Day 9. Using Namespaces in .NET
  • Day 10. Accessing Data with ADO.NET
  • Day 11. Understanding Visual Database Tools
  • Day 12. Accessing XML in .NET
  • Day 13. XML Web Services in .NET
  • Day 14. Components and .NET
  • Week 2. In Review
  • Week 3: At a Glance
  • Day 15. Writing International Applications
  • Day 16. Using Macros in Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 17. Automating Visual Studio .NET
  • Day 18. Using Crystal Reports
    • Why Use Crystal Reports?
    • Creating a Windows Forms Report
    • Using the Windows Forms Report Viewer
    • How to Programmatically Load a Report
    • Printing a Report Without the Viewer Control
    • Exporting a Report Programmatically
    • Viewing Reports in Web Forms
    • Summary
    • Q&A
    • Quiz
    • Exercises
  • Day 19. Understanding Microsoft Application Center Test
  • Day 20. Using Visual SourceSafe
  • Day 21. Object Role Modeling with Visio
  • Week 3. In Review

Printing a Report Without the Viewer Control

You can bypass the viewer control and print a report directly from a menu item or the click event of a button. Using the PrintToPrinter method of the ReportDocument class, you can print a loaded report directly to a printer. Listing 18.2 demonstrates how you could accomplish this in the click event of a button. Notice the code comments for the parameters for the PrintToPrinter method that sets the properties on the printed document.

Example 18.2. Printing a Report with the PrintToPrinter Method

Private Sub button1_Click(sender As Object, e As System.EventArgs)
   oRpt = New ReportDocument()
   oRpt.Load("C:\Report1.rpt")
   Try
      oRpt.PrintOptions.PrinterName = "\jbnet\hp-color"

      ' The PrintToPrinter method parameters are:
      ' # of copies
      ' Collated
      ' Start Page
      ' End Page
      oRpt.PrintToPrinter(1, True, 1, 1)

   Catch err As Exception
      MessageBox.Show(err.ToString())
   End Try
End Sub

private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
oRpt = new ReportDocument();

   oRpt = new ReportDocument();
   oRpt.Load(@"C:\Report1.rpt");

   try
   {
      oRpt.PrintOptions.PrinterName =
          "@\\jbnet\\hp-color";

      // The PrintToPrinter method parameters are:
      // # of copies
      // Collated
      // Start Page
      // End Page
      oRpt.PrintToPrinter(1, true, 1, 1);

   }
   catch(Exception err)
   {
      MessageBox.Show(err.ToString());
   }
}

After you add this code to the click event of a button and modify the location of the printer and the report name, the file prints directly without a viewer control.

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