programming problem no one can seem to figure out

Question

How do you print a datagrid's contents in VB.Net?? Please help!! Thanks in advance -CDE

normanpaterson · Answer

Perhaps this will help: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_vbcode/html/vbtskCodeExamplePrintingDataGrid.asp

mibuyt · Answer

Hi Oh.. haha.. i was confused recently by the term print and display Sorry :(

MythicalMe · Answer

As I told you before there is no direct method however you are working with the data anyhow. There is a PrintDocument control that gives you a graphics surface (through GDI+) that is just like the monitor graphics surface.

umd407 · Answer

No I know how to set up the datagrid. I already have it so that it displays all the information that the user searched for I need to take this information that is displayed and print a report of it. How do I print the report from the information that is displayed in the datagrid? Sorry for the confusion...

mibuyt · Answer

Or do you mean how you want your contents to appear in datagrid???

mibuyt · Answer

Hi If you want to display something on the datagrid. Hmm.. is that what you want ??? 1. Have a data adapter. 2. Bind the data adapter to a dataset. 3. Point the dataset to the datagrid's datasource. That's easy right! Cheers.

MythicalMe · Answer

How you proceed depends a lot on how your data is linked to the datagrid. Many beginning programmers think that the datagrid control is a container and try to plug in data manually. That isn't the case however. The datagrid is a control that was specifically designed to display edit and add data in tablular format wherein the columns represent the data fields and the rows each record. To that end the best method is to link a data source such as a dataset or datatable to the datagrid. If you use the dataset then you can create a class which reads the data from the datatable and writes it to the printer formatted however you like it. There is no direct method that I am aware of.