Printing in vb.net seems to be much more convoluted than it ever was
before...

I am having troubles finding "good" articles that really spell out the
complete printing process.

What I would like to see especially is the ability to print existing
documents (ie. Word, PDF, Excel etc...) from within a vb application.

I have a listview which lists filenames. I would like the user to be able to
select one or multiple items from the listview, right click and select a
'Print' option. I would then loop through the selected items and send them
to the default printer. I would like to be able to print the selected
documents in the correct formats - just as if you would using windows
explorer and selecting the 'Print' option when you right click an item.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Brad

"Brad Pears" <bradp@truenorthloghomes.com> schrieb:
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Printing files of various types without user interaction
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=printinganyfile&lang=en>

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>

Thanks for that... It works fine except that the associated application
launches as well... i.e when I print a .pdf file as shown in the example,
Adobe launches. Is there a way to prevent that from happening?

Thanks, Brad

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Thanks for that... It works fine except that when printing a .pdf, Adobe
launches but does not close. I tried a word document, and Word launched, the
doc printed and word closed. But, for some reason, when I printed the .pdf,
Adobe launches and stays active - meaning the user has to manually close it.
Not a big deal - but a bit of a pain. Can you think of any way I might be
able to force Adobe to close - or even minimize?

Thanks, Brad

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Dim psi As New ProcessStartInfo()
With psi
.Verb = "print"
.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden
.FileName = "C:\filename.pdf"
.UseShellExecute = True
End With
Process.Start(psi)