How to print the content in windows form application .

Akhilesh Kumar Sahu

if we enter the information via windows form app. and latter we want to print that information for example in billing software , first they input each and everything after that they gave the print of the bill , so i want to know the process between Taking input then how we can use that info. to print it out as Bill? i mean is there any control or something similar to it.

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Vasanth Natarajan8y ago
may be it will help you pls try this,

step1-Hi try this you must download the Ghostscript dll or execute the Ghostscript exe,

step2-use the following code and mapping your bill pdf file to printer

List objList = new List();

using (GhostscriptProcessor objGhostscriptProcessor = new GhostscriptProcessor())
{

objList.Add("-empty");
objList.Add("-dPrinted");
objList.Add("-dBATCH");
objList.Add("-dNOPAUSE");
objList.Add("-dNOSAFER");
objList.Add("-noquery");
objList.Add("-dNumCopies=1");
objList.Add("-sDEVICE=mswinpr2");
objList.Add("-f");
objList.Add(strPDFPath);

objGhostscriptProcessor.StartProcessing(objList.ToArray(), null);
}
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Nitin Sontakke8y ago
Unfortunately, printing has become too complicated after computing entered into page printers (inkjet, lazer printers) after leaving behind the era of dot-matrix and line printers.

There are several options, the best, to my knowledge, in the long term but slightly painful in the beginning is SSRS. Very well built framework for reporting by Microsoft.

Quick (and hence, dirty) to build and consume, but custom developed is to create an HTML file programatically and print it with help of a browser control available on windows form.

Decision largely depends on complexity of contents. If too simple, you can take html path, if too complex better stick to SSRS.

There might be other options available that I am not aware of. If someone says Crystal Reports then it's just the same, but different reporting framework, which you will have to learn.
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Akhilesh Kumar Sahu8y ago
Ramesh Palanivel i am using win form to fill and show the data so i just wanted to print the data in Retail invoice manner. like in this picture i just wanted to get the print out of Retail Invoice which is second Group box , for that what i need to do.
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Rajkiran Swain8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFvo48Ix_Xc

https://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Print-contents-of-Form-in-Windows-Forms-WinForms-Application-using-C-and-VBNet.aspx
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Ramesh Palanivel8y ago
Hi Akilesh,

Do you want to print the bill from winform application?
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