Printing in Silverlight

Printing is most valuable and required feature in business application. In this application, showing how we can take a print of our UI in silverlight. This is my xaml code which will create my UI to take print. Here a print button on click a print dialog box will appear.

We can also take the print of a part of our UI by passing the Id of that area like Grid/Canvas etc...

args.PageVisual = LayoutRoot; //Id of control to print

<UserControl x:Class="PrintInSilverlight.MainPage"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

    mc:Ignorable="d"

    d:DesignHeight="300" d:DesignWidth="400" Width="400" Height="300"xmlns:sdk="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/sdk">

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">

        <Button Content="Submit" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="110,141,0,0"Name="button1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75" />       

        <TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Margin="0,57,170,0" Name="textBox1"VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" />

        <TextBlock Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="29,57,0,0" Name="textBlock1"Text="Name" VerticalAlignment="Top" />

        <TextBlock Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="29,103,0,0" Name="textBlock2"Text="Address" VerticalAlignment="Top" />

        <TextBox Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="110,103,0,0" Name="textBox2"VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="120" />

        <Button Content="Print" Height="23" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="301,12,0,0" Name="button2"VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="75" Click="button2_Click" />

    </Grid>

</UserControl>

This is .cs code

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Net;

using System.Windows;

using System.Windows.Controls;

using System.Windows.Documents;

using System.Windows.Input;

using System.Windows.Media;

using System.Windows.Media.Animation;

using System.Windows.Shapes;

using System.Windows.Printing;

namespace PrintInSilverlight

{

    public partial class MainPage : UserControl

    {

        public MainPage()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        private void button2_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {            

            // create an instance of PrintDocument

            PrintDocument document = new PrintDocument();

            // tell the API what to print

            document.PrintPage += (s, args) =>

            {

                args.PageVisual = LayoutRoot;

            };           

            document.Print("Print In Silverlight");

        }

    }

}

When you run application UI will look like this

 

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