Print the contents of an entire form

[rikkemus]

Is it possible to print your entire form, with pictureboxes etc. I know you can use ControlPaint.Button etc to print my controls, but what if i had an entire form(not mainmenu and the things above) i wished to output to my printer?

[Robert Rohde]

Have you tried searching for print form[^]?

[rikkemus]

Yes but those examples doesnt really do what i want, it has shortcomings when it comes to pictureboxes etc. In old vb6.0 you could print an entire form, with PrintForm. MSDN makes an example where they Screenshot the memory for the drawed form(since printform isnt in .net), but if some part of the form is outside the screen, it cant dump that. To me it sound logically, that you should be able to extract the drawed form somehow, even though it isnt on screen. Perhaps build a shadow of it in memory? and then memcpy that to the printerdocument.

[Robert Rohde]

You could probably have a look at the WM_PRINT and WM_PRINTCLIENT apis. If I remember correctly they nearly did the same thing as WM_PAINT did with the difference not having an invalid area (i.e. outside of the screen).