I have a report with a text box and a report viewer. The text box tells the report how many reports passing a parameter. The problem is when I try to print the report it does not report the whole thing. It prints fine when i click on the tolbar and click the report layout and print it from that look. Why is that Can I write code to make the report load with the Print Layout look
Trying to do a report viewer in the c# windows app PLEASE HELP ASAP.
Strandberg
The following code sample may help you to print a report utilizing a print preview dialog. Please note that I have used to print a hard-coded string; you may wish to construct the same string from reading a database table to temporarily save into a file for print preview purpose (you may then delete the temp file after the use).
Please use (drag & drop) a print preview dialog control into your form of type System.Windows.Form.PrintPreviewDialog; let's name it ppdPrint
Make sure that you've imported the following namespaces (along with other neccessary namespaces - guess you've done already):
using System.Drawing.Printing;
Now try the following code sample:
private void btnPrintPreview_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// creating a temp file to be shown on
// print dialog -- one may construct the string
// form a database table rows..
string strFileName = @"C:\test11.txt";
TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter(strFileName);
writer.WriteLine(stringToPrint);
writer.Flush();
writer.Close();
// creates a print document
PrintDocument document = new PrintDocument();
document.DocumentName = strFileName;
ppdPrint.Document = document;
// print page handler
document.PrintPage += new PrintPageEventHandler(this.document_PrintPage);
ppdPrint.ShowDialog(this);
}
protected void document_PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
int charactersOnPage = 0;
int linesPerPage = 0;
e.Graphics.MeasureString(stringToPrint, new Font("Arial", 10),
e.MarginBounds.Size, StringFormat.GenericTypographic,
out charactersOnPage, out linesPerPage);
// Draws the string
e.Graphics.DrawString(stringToPrint, new Font("Arial", 10), Brushes.Black,
e.MarginBounds, StringFormat.GenericTypographic);
// next page !!
stringToPrint = stringToPrint.Substring(charactersOnPage);
// is there any more page to print
e.HasMorePages = (stringToPrint.Length > 0);
}
Hope this may help.
Cheers