Printing - Migrating from VB6 to C#

Hi everyone

I'm a Visual Basic 6 (VB6) developer for about 10 years...

Finally I've decided to go for a new language… and choose Visual C# (now on VS2010).

My main programs in VB6 were working with printers using the Printer.CurrentX, Printer.CurrenY and Printer.Print… for invoice emission.

But now in VC# is a little different, mainly regarding when we want to have more than one page in one document (I know about the HasMorePages flag…).

Just to give you a example how is my standard coding in VB6 regarding invoices:

Private sub printInvoice()

Dim adoCust     As ADODB.Recordset

Dim adoDet      As ADODB.Recordset

Dim newLine     As Integer

Dim fontHeight  As Double

    Set adoCust = New ADODB.Recordset

    Set adoDet = New ADODB.Recordset

    fontHeight = 5

    adoCust.Open "Select * from tabCustomer order by idCustomer", adoCon, adOpenForwardOnly, adLockReadOnly

    Do Until adoCust.EOF

       'Address and some other client data saved on tabCustomer

       Printer.CurrentX = 10

       Printer.CurrentY = 10

       Printer.Print Trim(adoCust.Fields("CustName") & "")

       '...

       '... some more adoCust fields....

       '...

       'now lets go for the invoice details

       adoDet.Open "select * from tabInvoiceDetails where idCustommer =" & Val(adoCust.Fields("idCustomer")) & " order by idDetail", adoCon, adOpenForwardOnly, adLockReadOnly

       newLine = 0

       Do Until adoDet.EOF

            'details...

            Printer.CurrentX = 10

            Printer.CurrentY = 10 + newLine * fontHeight

            Printer.Print Trim(adoDet.Fields("Date") & "")

            Printer.CurrentX = 20

            Printer.CurrentY = 10 + newLine * fontHeight

            Printer.Print Trim(adoDet.Fields("Description") & "")

            Printer.CurrentX = 60

            Printer.CurrentY = 10 + newLine * fontHeight

            Printer.Print Trim(adoDet.Fields("Value") & "")

            '...

            '... some more adoDet fields....

            '...

            newLine = newLine + 1

            adoDet.MoveNext

            If Not adoDet.EOF Then

               If newLine = 50 Then

                  'we put over here the second page

                  Printer.NewPage

                  newLine = 0

               End If 'newLine = 50 Then

            End If

       Loop

       adoDet.Close

       adoCust.MoveNext

       If adoCust.EOF Then

          'we finished the print document with n pages

          Printer.EndDoc

       Else

          'we go for a new page because there are more invoices

          Printer.NewPage

       End If

    Loop

    adoCust.Close

    Set adoCust = Nothing

    Set adoDet = Nothing

End Sub

Now my question is: with this new (at least to me) C# how is the best way to do it? My main concern is that we need to exit the printDoc_PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e) and have the flag HasMorePages = True to force to have a new page and then get back to continue the invoice printing…I will loose the ID on the Customer and also for the details… keep ids and get back… this is half way to make a mistake on printing…

Thanks for your help.

Best regards,

Antonio