> If I am reading your question correctly, you are trying to print the
> contents of an email attachment from your .net app -- bypassing having
> to open the attachment.  If you are reading the contents from your code
> you can then place these contents into a .Net report control (rdlc file)
> and then use emf to print that out.
>
> Here's a link where you can print using EMF with a .rdlc file:
>
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.cre
> atestreamcallback(VS.80).aspx
>
> Rich
>
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"Alan" <bru***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Rich.
>
> Yes, I'm saving the attachments to a temp directory, then printing
> them out. Problem is that the different potential types need to be
> handled differently, e.g, PDF vs Word.
>
> First time I've heard of EMF so I'll check it out...
>
> On Mar 24, 8:12 pm, Rich P <rpng***@aol.com> wrote:
>> If I am reading your question correctly, you are trying to print the
>> contents of an email attachment from your .net app -- bypassing having
>> to open the attachment.  If you are reading the contents from your code
>> you can then place these contents into a .Net report control (rdlc file)
>> and then use emf to print that out.
>>
>> Here's a link where you can print using EMF with a .rdlc file:
>>
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.cre
>> atestreamcallback(VS.80).aspx
>>
>> Rich
>>
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>

On Mar 25, 8:57 am, "Cor Ligthert[MVP]" <Notmyfirstn***@planet.nl>
wrote:
> Alan,
>
> You can use Crystal Reports or a 3th party tool.
>
> For your problem I would probably take the Visual Basic powerpack and follow
> the Print part of that.
> (If it is not PDF otherwise I would probably simple create an application
> start with the PDF in it, and then it)
>
> Cor
>
> "Alan" <bru***@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:f8b25ed4-681e-43da-8081-631cee2f8f78@g11g2000yqe.googlegroups.com...
>
> > Thanks Rich.
>
> > Yes, I'm saving the attachments to a temp directory, then printing
> > them out. Problem is that the different potential types need to be
> > handled differently, e.g, PDF vs Word.
>
> > First time I've heard of EMF so I'll check it out...
>
> > On Mar 24, 8:12 pm, Rich P <rpng***@aol.com> wrote:
> >> If I am reading your question correctly, you are trying to print the
> >> contents of an email attachment from your .net app -- bypassing having
> >> to open the attachment.  If you are reading the contents from your code
> >> you can then place these contents into a .Net report control (rdlc file)
> >> and then use emf to print that out.
>
> >> Here's a link where you can print using EMF with a .rdlc file:
>
> >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.reporting.winforms.cre
> >> atestreamcallback(VS.80).aspx
>
> >> Rich
>
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> Quick Note on the EMF printing idea:  you set up an rdlc file (drag a
> report control onto a form and it will automatically create an rdlc
> file).  In the rdlc you add the controls that you want to print content
> from - like an image control for a picture, or a textbox for text, etc.
> With the emf technique -- you don't display the report control or
> contents ...  it just prints out the contents to the printer.  Go to the
> link above and check it out.
>
> Rich
>
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> Hi Alan,
>
> Well, you will have to write a little bit of code here.  When reading
> your document, you would read text to some string var and then set the
> text property of a textbox to the string var.  If it is a pdf (I haven't
> tried this yet) but I believe you can embed the pdf file into the rdlc
> into a control and print that control.  Basically, you would have to
> detach the pdf and then pass the location to the rdlc and then print the
> rdlc.  I am not sure what control would take a pdf.  It should be in the
> link I posted above.  The specific section of the link is just for
> printing but the rest of the sections pertain the the report control.
>
> So you would detach the pdf, pass the location to the rdlc, print the
> pdf, and then delete the pdf from the location.  That should be seamless
> to the user.
>
> If the PDF is just pure text, you could read the contents and then pass
> that to the rdlc and print that -- just to give you some ideas.
>
> Rich
>
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On Apr 20, 4:31 pm, "Patrice" <http://scribe-en.blogspot.com/> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A know method is to use the "Print" "verb" :
>
> "If the file name involves a nonexecutable file, such as a .doc file, you
> can include a verb specifying what action to take on the file. For example,
> you could set the Verb to "Print" for a file ending in the .doc extension..
> The file name specified in the FileName property does not need to have an
> extension if you manually enter a value for the Verb property. However, if
> you use the Verbs property to determine what verbs are available, you must
> include the extension."
>
> (fromhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.st...).
>
> --
> Patrice