Using Silverlight's Native Printing Functionality

Silverlight's printing functionality revolves around the PrintDocument class. This class provides a very primitive means of sending content to the printer, but it's quite easy to use for simple tasks. Let's look at how you can use it to send some output to the printer.

images Note For simple printing tasks such as printing a screen, the PrintDocument class provides a nice, easy means of doing so. However, when it comes to printing reports and other more complex printing jobs, it can become quite unwieldy to implement printing at such a low level. Therefore, generating and displaying PDF reports may be ...

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