i all. Forgive me if this has been answered before.

I did lots of searching, and only f ound answers for vb6, not vb.net. I have a vb.net app that uses PrintPreviewDialog to print a document. Now I want the user to be able to print to any printer on the network. So, I created a lis tbox of available printers which works fine. Now, I need to either change the wi ndows default printer to the one selected, or make the PrintPreviewDialog use th at printer name. I have tried many things to no avail. Any sugggestions would be greatly apprecia ted. Thanks. Eric Post Points: 35 eblackwelder West Springfield, MA Since 1/16/2003 Posts 165 Reputation 2,190 Reply Eric Blackwelder (eblackwelder) replied on 6/4/2004 8:40 AM rated by 0 users Nevermind. Found the problem - pebkac. :) Post Points: 5 dries_neyrinck Lovely Ghent in Belgium Since 4/28/2003 Posts 4,227 Reputation 30,780 Reply dries neyrinck (dries_neyrinck) replied on 6/4/2004 9:43 AM rated by 0 users It would be great if you posted your solution or a description how to do it, to help other forumites that might have this question in the future. ;-) thanks, D Post Points: 5 eblackwelder West Springfield, MA Since 1/16/2003 Posts 165 Reputation 2,190 Reply Eric Blackwelder (eblackwelder) replied on 6/4/2004 10:25 AM rated by 0 users Yes, thanks D. What was I thinking? It is definately Friday - I usually do that,

but my mind is elsewhere. First, you need this up top: Code: Imports System.Drawing.Printing Next, to get a list of available printers: Code: 'cboPrinter Dim Dim For .PrinterName Next Now, two solutions to change the printer: 1. This just changes the printer for the document you want to print: Code: Private Sub pdCrRpt_PrintPage(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Draw ing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs) Handles pdCrRpt.PrintPage 'code for setting up print document End Sub 'in another sub: Dim ppdPreview As New PrintPreviewDialog() ppdPreview.Document = pdCrRpt ppdPreview.Document.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = strPrinterName 'where strPrinterName contains the name of the printer you want 'this is the only change I made to my existing code to make my idea work ppdPreview.ShowDialog() 2. This actually changes your windows default printer: (I got this to work, but used the first solution as it is simpler) Code: Private Sub SetDefaultPrinter(ByVal PrinterName As String, _ ByVal DriverName As String, ByVal PrinterPort As String) Dim DeviceLine As String 'rebuild a valid device line string DeviceLine = PrinterName & "," & DriverName & "," & PrinterPort 'Store the new printer information in the '[WINDOWS] section of the WIN.INI file for 'the DEVICE= item Call WriteProfileString("windows", "Device", DeviceLine) is a combobox printers As New Printing.PrintDocument() printername = printers.PrinterSettings.PrinterName Each printername In printers.PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters cboPrinter.Items.Add(printername) cboPrinter.SelectedItem = pdTest.DefaultPageSettings.PrinterSettings

'Cause all applications to reload the INI file Call SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_WININICHANGE, 0, "windows") End Sub Private Declare Function WriteProfileString Lib "kernel32" Alias "WriteP rofileStringA" _ (ByVal lpszSection As String, ByVal lpszKeyName As String, _ ByVal lpszString As String) As Long Private Declare Function SendMessage Lib "user32" Alias "SendMessageA" _ (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal wMsg As Long, _ ByVal wParam As Long, ByVal lparam As String) As Long Private Const HWND_BROADCAST As Long = &HFFFF& Private Const WM_WININICHANGE As Long = &H1A 'in a sub: SetDefaultPrinter(strPrinterName, "", "") 'where strPrinterName contains the name of the printer you want Eric Post Points: 20 ladendecker Springfield, Ma Since 6/16/2003 Posts 25 Reputation 305 Reply Richard Ladendecker (ladendecker) replied on 8/8/2004 7:05 PM rated by 0 users Nice routine Eric.. I need one to do this. Compliments Rick.. Post Points: 5 AnharMiah Since 6/12/2011 Posts 1 Reputation 5 Reply AnharMiah (AnharMiah) replied on 6/12/2011 6:35 AM rated by 0 users Hello I thought I register to reply:

There is an easier one liner to set the default printer:

view plaincopy to clipboardprint? Shell(String.Format("rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n ""{0}""", PrinterNa me))