Printing in Silverlight


Introduction

In this article we will see how the Print API can be used in Silverlight 4.

Create Silverlight Application

Fire up Visual Studio 20102010 and create a Silverlight Application and name the solution as PrintAPISample.

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Let's have some control's that would signify the printing.

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As you see in the above image, we have a Tab control and it consits of two Items, which contains an image each. Then we have a Hyperlink "Print Page", which will print when we click on it.

Let's write the code for printing.

We need the following Namespace to use the Printing classes.

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Now let's run the application and click to Print Page.

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When we click on print the Print Dialog box would open.

Unfortunately the Printer driver is not supported in Windows 7 and I haven't updated so let's print it as a PDF file.

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And when the print is completed the file would look like following.

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Hope this article helps.

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