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Hi all,
I've got a small issue I need to figure out and I thought someone might have the answer. I need to send a print job (HTML page) to a networked printer connected to the web server, rather than the client's printer. Essentially this is a letter printing exercise for a corporate application. The letters are written with a wysiwyg, web-based HTML editor. They can then either be printed (for posting to the recipient) or emailed (which is, as you would expect, a doddle). Printing is causing some issues in that, while it's extremely simple to get a print job to a client-side printer, printing to a printer connected to the server is a bit of a nonsense. I thought of creating an instance of a web browser control on the server side and programmatically filling it with the HTML and asking it to print, but apparently this will pop up a dialog on the server, which is less than desirable. At the moment my solution is to do some fairly arcane transformations on the HTML in order to turn it into postscript, fire the postscript at a printer (which is relatively easy), and hope to god the printer understands it. Most of ours are HP printers and cope admirably with being given raw postscript, but it's not really a future-proof solution. If the users end up getting a new printer that doesn't understand postscript natively, they'll just be printing what will look like complete gibberish.
If anyone's got a nice, slick answer to this, I'd appreciate it. The postscript solution has a certain raw charm, but it's nowhere near as elegant as it should be. Something I can actually show my boss without being slapped round the back of the head would be good.
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with dotnet framework 2 , it will always ask for that print dialog. it was possible with framework 1.1.
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Fortunately I'm still in a 1.1 world! How do I get around the print dialog?
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So... it might be possible to run a web browser instance on the server, insert the HTML I want to print, and tack the javascript on the end? That's kind of intriguing, I'm going to take a look at that. I suspect some of the posts further down that page mean that I'm not likely to get very far, since MS seem to have locked that functionality down in XP, but... the server in question is running 2000... Hmmm...
Thanks, I'll look into this and see how far I get.
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Hey
I have a GridView with an ImageField, inside this image field I would like to display a scaled down version of an image (to fit the dimensions of the ImageField) - and show the full sized one if the user chooses to.
I was just wondering is it possible to do this and if so can any one give some hints or will there need to be 2 images one full size and one that is the correct dimensions for the ImageField?
Thanks
Dan
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hi,
Are U trying to do both of the things(scaled and full size image), in the same image control inside the gridview.
Sherin Iranimose
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No - sorry for not being clear.
One page has a gridview with a list of companies and a scaled down image (in an imagefield) - selecting one of the companies will take the user to that companies area (different web page) where the fullsize image will be displayed.
Basically on the company's area there will be a 200 x 600 banner but on the gridview I only want to show this image as a 50 x 150 image (kind of like a teaser image)
Thanks
Dan
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hi Dan,
You can specify height and width for image control inside the gridview.
So all images inside the gridview have same size.
If didnot specify the height and width it will take actual image size.
Dan Is this u are expecting?????
Sherin Iranimose
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I have used a style sheet to set the itemstyle's height and width but it didnt work - I have also tried setting it in the actual mark up but all that happens is that the cell stretches to fit the images full size rather than the image shrinks to fit the cell.
Is is just a case of having 2 different sized images or is it possible to force the image to fit the cells dimensions?
Thanks for your help
Dan
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<asp:TemplateField>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Image ID="Image2" runat="server" Height="50px" ImageUrl='<%# Bind("imgpath") %>'
Width="50px" />
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateField>
are u trying like this..
Sherin Iranimose
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Here is what I have:
<asp:GridView ID="grdListCompanies" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" AutoGenerateColumns="False" DataKeyNames="COMPANY_ID" DataSourceID="objDsListCompanies" EmptyDataText="Sorry there are no flyers listed for this supplier">
<Columns>
<asp:BoundField DataField="COMPANY_NAME" HeaderText="COMPANY_NAME" SortExpression="COMPANY_NAME" />
<asp:HyperLinkField DataNavigateUrlFields="COMPANY_ID" DataNavigateUrlFormatString="Filter/Product-By-Supplier.aspx?COMPANY_ID={0}" DataTextField="COMPANY_NAME" DataTextFormatString="View {0}'s Products" />
<asp:ImageField DataImageUrlField="COMPANY_PICTURE_URL" ItemStyle-CssClass="imageFieldCompanyLogo" ></asp:ImageField>
</Columns>
</asp:GridView>
and for the css:
.imageFieldCompanyLogo
{
height: 50px;
width: 150px;
}
Thanks
Dan
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hi,
The better way is to use template field and add an image comtrol insidethat.
So we can take it as normal controls and we can specify all the possible attributes like height, width etc...
Sorry, If u are interested try it...
Sherin Iranimose
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Thanks for your help and patience - I shall try that
Cheers
Dan
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That worked like a charm - Thanks loads
Dan
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I have an image control to display my picture, and input file control to select the image file, How can the input file control automatically display the selected image on teh image control?
t.aransiola
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Do you want the image uploaded to server and displayed then or displayed immediately at client-side?
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In order to display it, it needs to be uploaded, then sent back down to an img tag.
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Hi! i want to place CheckBoxes at beginning of grid for the Deletion purpose. When user want to delete data from the grid check the box and click delete button. Plz tell me how can i do, Please give me some code examples ...
Feroze
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you have to use template columns to achieve this.
a simple example is shown below.
for more information search for 'template columns' in msdn or just google it.
<asp:DataGrid id="DataGrid1" style="Z-INDEX: 106; LEFT: 160px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 320px" runat="server">
<Columns>
<asp:TemplateColumn>
<ItemTemplate>
<asp:CheckBox id="CheckBox1" runat="server"></asp:CheckBox>
</ItemTemplate>
</asp:TemplateColumn>
</Columns>
</asp:DataGrid>
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hi,
1. add a check box as template field
Follow the reply of 1119
2. In the delete button handler you can use following code
<br />
Dim i As Integer<br />
For i = 0 To GridView1.Rows.Count - 1<br />
Dim chk As CheckBox = GridView1.Rows(i).Cells(0).Controls(1)<br />
MsgBox(chk.Checked.ToString())<br />
Next<br />
This will display the check box states in each row..
Just an example.You can follow this method..
Sherin Iranimose
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If u r using .NET FW 2.0 i.e. Visual Studio 2005, when u place Grid on the Web form , a smart tag appears on the top-right corner of the grid, click it and edit the template, it has options for what u want to do
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Hi,
My web application is developed using third party controls ..... some forms are developed using crystalrepots.......
I opened one setup project and added our third party dlls and crystareport dlls finally builded the application..
Setup was created, I installed it in my system everything is working fine...
when I installed it in client machine(having .Net Framework) it is raising configuration error saying that "could not load assembly(crystal assemblies)........"
How to solve it...
Thanks
Hari
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while creating the deploymet package u have to add those dlls in applications bin directory not in the MSI. And All the dependent dlls has to be added in applications bin. Then the MSI or website will work fine.
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First u add the DLLs in bin comiple the project then u create the deployment pakage either MSI or using MSBuild
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