Printing with VB.NET The .NET Framework gives you an easier way to print

摘要

Forget everything you know about printing from Visual Basic 6. Although some parts of Visual Basic .NET are very similar to their non-.NET predecessors, printing isn't one of them. Instead, Visual Basic .NET introduces a new object-oriented method of printing. To print from VB.NET, you must master two core skills. First, you have to treat the printed page as a space on which to draw, using the classes in the System.Drawing namespace. Second, you have to properly communicate with the printer by using events of the PrintDocument class. Fortunately, neither one of these skills is difficult to master. Even better, this is one of the areas where you can get a lot of functionality from the .NET Framework for a small code investment. In this article, I give you the broad overview of printing from VB.NET, which provides you with the concepts you need to understand printing in your own applications.