Silverlight : Print a Document

Silverlight 4 now contains printer support which you can easily take advantage of.

In Silverlight, to print, all you need to do is generate any UIElement-derived object and pass it to the printing system, as this code demonstrates:

private void buttonPrint_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
    PrintDocument doc = new PrintDocument();
    doc.PrintPage += new EventHandler<PrintPageEventArgs>(doc_PrintPage);
    doc.Print();
}

void doc_PrintPage(object sender, PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
    //simply set the PageVisual property to the UIElement
    //that you want to print
    e.PageVisual = canvas;
    e.HasMorePages = false;
}

The PrintPage event handler sets the PageVisual property to whatever control you want printed—it’s as easy as that.