Re: Server Printing using Print Dialog

Thanks for Mark's great inputs.

Hi Dale,

I agree with Mark that it is not allowed to display server-side printer
setting interface to web application's client user(different machine or
network boundary). The reasonable approach is use a web page to offer the
user interface for the client user to choose the printer. You can first
queries all the printers installed on the server machine and display in
webpage to let the user choose one.

Mark has also posted some good code snippet of using WMI to query the
printers on the machine.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

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From: "Mark Rae [MVP]" <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: Server Printing using Print Dialog
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 00:34:48 +0100


"BrassicaNigra" <brassica_nigra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How can I bring up a print dialog box in the client browser that offers
the
different printers available to the server?

You can't. Calling a dialog box on the server would pop a dialog box on
the
server - there will be no-one there to see it...

If that is not possible, is there a way to retrieve the names of the
printers on the server. I could then use the PrintSettings.PrinterName
property to set the output myself

Certainly. Because the code will be running on the server, you have the
entire .NET Framework at your disposal. There are several ways you can
retrieve the collection of printers installed on the server, but WMI is
probably the simplest:

using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Management;

using (ManagementObjectSearcher objMOS = new
ManagementObjectSearcher("SELECT * FROM Win32_Printer"))
{
using (ManagementObjectCollection objMOC = objMOS.Get())
{
foreach (ManagementObject objMO in objMOC)
{
// do something with objMO["Name"]
}
}
}


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Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net



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