在vb.net Windows应用程序中打印HTML页面

Question

I have a simple html page with place holders in it, when the user fill some info i replace these info in the html page and then print this page, my question is how to print an html page with its embedded format? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

One of your best options would be to put a WebBrowser control on your form. It can be hidden if you want. After saving the StreamWriter

        strWriter = New IO.StreamWriter(Application.StartupPath & filename & ".html")
        strWriter.Write(docStuff)
        strWriter.Close()

Then just reload the file into the WebBrowser, and tell it to Print. Fairly simple. If you want to get away from the WebBrowser control, then you are going to have to use System.Diagnostics.Process. For example, the following line will open the html file in your default Browser. You are able to add arguments to this statement to get it to print, but you would have to experiment to see what argument you need to get it to autoprint.

System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.StartupPath & fileName & ".html")

An even easier option is to use ProcessStartInfo. You need to Import System.Diagnostics to do this...

    Dim proStart As New ProcessStartInfo
    proStart.FileName = filepathAndName
    proStart.Verb = "print"
    Process.Start(proStart)