Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/previewImages/100/558326_100x75.jpg Channel 9 - Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) In this episode, Pete Brown discusses the printing API in Silverlight 4 and demonstrates his recent printing exploits. Pete shows John how, using the API, he created a printing library that serves as a report writer. The source code is available on codeplex (link is below).   Relevant links: John's Blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Pete's Blog and on Twitter (@pete_brown) Silverlight Reporting on Codeplex Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv  en Tue, 21 May 2013 15:21:46 GMT Tue, 21 May 2013 15:21:46 GMT Rev9 Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) Very interesting.

 

Do users need special permissions to install printing support?

Can regular user (who can only install ClickOnce apps) print using this library?

Does it require XPS printer driver?

can printing support be used to print any else from silverlight, besides the reports you mentioned?

 

For example: Microsoft Report Viewer control doesn't install printing support by default. The first time somebody tries to print it asks to install and most of the user in our network are not able to do so. So we ended up converting reports to something printable.  

 

Thanks!

posted by ivan_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634136155490000000 Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:12:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634136155490000000 ivan_ Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) @ivan_

 

Nothing special is required. This is all Silverlight code that works in the sandbox as well as in elevated trust. No special drivers are required. If the user can print from a web page, they can print from Silverlight.

 

There are limitations here, though, compared to "real" reporting solutions. This is not a good approach for large reports due to the bitmap approach. Great for small stuff Smiley

 

In normal trust/sandboxed, printing must be started via a user-initiated event like a button click.

 

Pete

posted by Psychlist1972

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634136305110000000 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 01:21:51 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634136305110000000 Psychlist1972 Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) Great! Thanks. I will need to try.

Can I feed-in images from SQL Server reporting service reports into this? 

Or rather report pages rendered as images.

posted by ivan_

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634136888150000000 Fri, 02 Jul 2010 17:33:35 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634136888150000000 ivan_ Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) This isn't really a SQL Server Reporting Services - level report writer. This is more for collections of info that make very short reports. Maybe some images, probably not graphs right now as I don't run through to ensure animations wrap up.

 

Not sure what you'll be able to do with SSRS in the short term, but for the long term, I'll make sure talk to the SSRS team and add your voice to the folks that are looking for a Silverlight solution.

 

Pete

posted by Psychlist1972

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634137132520000000 Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:20:52 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634137132520000000 Psychlist1972 Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) Agreed. This solution is great for small reports, adhoc captures of data, and those one off exceptions that always come up in projects. if you need a reporting system, I would recommend looking at SSRS and voicing your opinions to their team on how you'd like to see it integrated with Silverlight. In short: 50 reports .... use SSRS. 5 ... this works fine.

posted by jopapa

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634138509310000000 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:35:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634138509310000000 jopapa Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) Mr Papa

 

Your avatar has more hair than mine. I've seen your head. Actually, I'm pretty sure I've seen the ceiling reflected in it too Wink

 

Something is deeply wrong here Smiley

posted by Psychlist1972

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634140112810000000 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:08:01 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634140112810000000 Psychlist1972 Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) Hey Now Silverlight #35,

 

     Great Vid on Printing!

 

Thx 4 the info,

Catto

posted by ccatto

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634152264760000000 Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:41:16 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634152264760000000 ccatto Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35) silverlight did not supporting Large Print Page sizes like a0  

posted by usamawahabkhan

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634153098880000000 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:51:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634153098880000000 usamawahabkhan Re: Advanced Silverlight Printing Strategies (Silverlight TV #35)  
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/silverlight/SLReporting.aspx
 
Ernesto Herrera
MCTS Web Applications 2.0
 

posted by Ernesto Herrera

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634300290860000000 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 20:31:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Advanced-Silverlight-Printing-Strategies-Silverlight-TV-35#c634300290860000000 Ernesto Herrera