Printing from a Windows Service [duplicate]

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How can I printing a document on a specific printer from a Windows-Service without the need of any user-interaction?

A string, or a text-file. Maybe Crystalreport?

Thanks.

Answer 1

The point is not how to print from a windows service or from an application, if you don't want any user interaction to be required you have to specify all print parameters without any need to show a print dialog ( which you can't because a windows service has no access to the UI ).

see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.printdocument.aspx

Answer 2

Try to create a Multithreaded Services. Once you create the service with Admin previledges, it won't get interfere by users. (Actually I didn't understantpurpose of "without the need of any user-interaction")

Answer 3

There is another discussion on this using crystal reports: Print without Printer selection dialog

And here's another one for printing html Print html document from Windows Service without print dialog

Hopefully, they'll get you started in the right direction.

Answer 4

// Class that handles printing
class MyPrintDocument : PrintDocument
    {
       //...
    }

when you want to print:

        // Create an instance of your printer class
        MyPrintDocument printer = new MyPrintDocument();

        // Set StandardPrintController so status dialog won't appear
        printer.PrintController = new StandardPrintController();

Answer 5

To 'silently' print from a Windows Service you should utilise Win32 GDI API.

If you are developing a Microsoft .NET application, you can use Platform Invocation Services (PInvoke) to call the Win32 GDI APIs to print. Heres a nice PInvoke tutorial. Take a look here for Win32 GDI methods etc.

Here is more information and an example regarding printing from a windows service from Microsoft's DSUI team... take a look