direct print in crystal report without showing many popup in vs 2008

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Hi all..
I am working on a project and I am creating crystal reports.
I have to print the reports.
When I press the print icon on the report , 1 pop opens and it asks me to choose all pages or select page range when I press on "Ok" on this page it then opens the repost in pdf file and then I click on print button on pdf and then print comes.

I want that when User click on report then without any further popup the Print should come and if it is not possible then after 1st popup print shud come. I dont want that User shud see the pdf file..

and I have not written any code for printing..

and also
I have tried by changing the ReportViewer control PrintMode from ActiveX and PDF but nothing works.
Do u have any other Idea how to solve this problem..

I have also tried by using this

C#

reportDocument.PrintToPrinter(1, false, 1, 1);

but nothing works.
Can any body help me in this please...

Thanks in advance...

Posted 29-Sep-11 19:54pm

bkthebest

Updated 29-Sep-11 20:33pm

walterhevedeich

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Tom Deketelaere · Answer 1 · 2011-09-29T21:55:00

The popup you get is the standard print dialog from windows.
The reason it is printing to PDF is probably because you have a pdf creator as your standard printer.

Whatever you do in code doesn't matter when you use the print button from the crystal report viewer, it will always show a print dialog where you have to select you printer and set you options.

What you can do however is place a button on the screen that will print the report directly to printer.
This however requires that you have a printersettings and pagesettings object to do so.

If you call the method 'printtoprinter' with the variables you gave, the report will print to you standard printer.

You can call the same method with (printersettings, pagesettings, boolean).
The way we did it is. Give the user a screen where he can set the printersettings and pagesettings for each report in the program. Those objects are then serialized to a text file and saved on a network share. (Important: serialize to text don't save it in a database because you will lose data and the printing won't work for all printers)
Then give the user the choice of where he wants to print to: screen or printer.
If printer is selected then deserialize the objects from the text files and call the printtoprinter method.

This isn't a easy task but is possible.