PrintPreviewDialog In Windows Forms DataGridView C# VB.NET

PrintPreviewDialog Control With DataGridView In Winforms Or Windows Forms Application Using C# And Vb.net 

In this post i'm explaining how to use printpreviewdialog with C# and vb.net to preview before printing datagridview in windows forms application. 

Drag and place one printPreviewDialog control on the page, open it's property window and assign document to be previewed (printdocument1) to it's document property or assign it in code behind.

you can go to link mentioned above to know how to create printdocument.


C# CODE

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01private void btnPrint_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

02        {

03            //Assign printPreviewDialog properties

04            pvDialog.Document = printDocument1;

05            pvDialog.PrintPreviewControl.Zoom = 1;

06            pvDialog.ShowDialog();

07        }

08 

09        private void printDocument1_PrintPage(object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e)

10        {

11            Bitmap dataGridViewImage = new Bitmap(this.dataGridView1.Width, this.dataGridView1.Height);

12            dataGridView1.DrawToBitmap(dataGridViewImage, new Rectangle(0, 0, this.dataGridView1.Width, this.dataGridView1.Height));

13            e.Graphics.DrawImage(dataGridViewImage, 0, 0);

14        }

VB.NET CODE

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01Private Sub btnPrint_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)

02 pvDialog.Document = printDocument1

03 pvDialog.PrintPreviewControl.Zoom = 1

04 pvDialog.ShowDialog()

05End Sub

06 

07Private Sub printDocument1_PrintPage(sender As Object, e As System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs)

08 Dim dataGridViewImage As New Bitmap(Me.dataGridView1.Width, Me.dataGridView1.Height)

09 dataGridView1.DrawToBitmap(dataGridViewImage, New Rectangle(0, 0, Me.dataGridView1.Width, Me.dataGridView1.Height))

10 e.Graphics.DrawImage(dataGridViewImage, 0, 0)

11End Sub