Hide the print progress dialog when printing a report programmatically
Environment
| Product | Progress® Telerik® Reporting |
Important Note
This approach is only applicable for desktop applications (WPF, Windows Forms and etc.). If this code sample is used in server-client environment the print operation will be executed on the server side.
Solution
To prevent the print UI from appearing, you should specify valid printer settings and a standard print controller to this method. This example illustrates how to prevent the print UI from appearing in a batch print operation or when printing from a service.
var reportName = "Telerik.Reporting.Examples.CSharp.Dashboard, CSharp.ReportLibrary";
// Obtain the settings of the default printer
System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings printerSettings
= new System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings();
// The standard print controller comes with no UI
System.Drawing.Printing.PrintController standardPrintController =
new System.Drawing.Printing.StandardPrintController();
// Print the report using the custom print controller
Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportProcessor reportProcessor
= new Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportProcessor();
reportProcessor.PrintController = standardPrintController;
Telerik.Reporting.TypeReportSource typeReportSource =
new Telerik.Reporting.TypeReportSource();
// reportName is the Assembly Qualified Name of the report
typeReportSource.TypeName = reportName;
reportProcessor.PrintReport(typeReportSource, printerSettings);
Dim reportName = "ReportCatalog, VB.ReportLibrary"
' Obtain the settings of the default printer
Dim printerSettings As New System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings
' The standard print controller comes with no UI
Dim standardPrintController As New System.Drawing.Printing.StandardPrintController
' Create a report source to pass the report to the report processor
Dim typeReportSource As New Telerik.Reporting.TypeReportSource()
' reportName is the Assembly Qualified Name of the report
typeReportSource.TypeName = reportName
' Print the report using the custom print controller
Dim reportProcessor As New Telerik.Reporting.Processing.ReportProcessor
reportProcessor.PrintController = standardPrintController
reportProcessor.PrintReport(typeReportSource, printerSettings)