PrintForm for .NET helps you to add printing support to your
application quickly and easily with almost no coding - by
printing the Windows .NET Forms that you have already designed
and coded using Visual Studio .NET.
PrintForm adds a range of options to each control on a Windows
.NET Form allowing you to customise the way it appears on
the printout, including Background Color at Print Time and
Visibility at Print Time.
Here are some of the things you can do with PrintForm:
A Single Form Barcode Label Application
Here
printing support is added by dropping PrintForm and PrintPreviewDialog
components
onto the form. Note in this example how PrintForm is only
printing the contents of the white Panel:
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A .NET TabletPC Data Collection Application
Here's
PrintForm in use in a .NET TabletPC application (the AutoClaims
.NET sample supplied with the TabletPC sdk).
PrintForm is capable of printing
TabletPC
InkEdit
and
InkPicture
controls, as well as all the standard Forms controls.
Note how the PrintForm output is fully scalable without
loss of quality (excluding bitmaps).
Multipage Data Collection Application
This is the TaxForm sample application provided with PrintForm.
In this application PrintForm provides the printing support
for each of a sequence of forms in the application, and the
PrintForm PrintChainManager component is responsible for
chaining the printed output together into a single printed
document. 
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Below are screenshots of some of the samples
provided with PrintForm.
Sample 1 : SimpleForm
This example demonstrates the basic process of printing
a Windows Form using PrintForm. Note that the Form is printed
'as is' with the contents of each control preserved
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Sample 2 : HeaderFooter
This example demonstrates adding a header and footer to
a printout using PrintForm. Note that the print background
color of the Form in this example has been set to white
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Sample 3 : StockQuote
This example demonstrates using dynamically created UserControls
with a Form to be printed using PrintForm, and printing controls
with graphical elements such as the colored arrows, and the
windows calendar control. Note also that the Form contains
a scrolling region (a Panel control), and that PrintForm prints
the entire contents of the Panel independent of the position
of the scrollbar
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Sample 4 : MultiPage
This example demonstrates producing multipage reports
using PrintForm, with a different page layout on each page.
Also demonstrated is PrintForm's ability to print custom graphics
created at runtime as a response to user input (in this application
the user can mark areas of the car image with crosses to indicate
damage). Note that the application has a tab control with
two pages, each of these is used as a source for the printed
area of a separate page
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