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How to: Invoke a Print Dialog
To provide the ability to print from you application, you can simply create and open a xref:System.Windows.Controls.PrintDialog object.
Example
The xref:System.Windows.Controls.PrintDialog control provides a single entry point for [!INCLUDETLA2#tla_ui], configuration, and XPS job submission. The control is easy to use and can be instantiated by using [!INCLUDETLA#tla_xaml] markup or code. The following example demonstrates how to instantiate and open the control in code and how to print from it. It also shows how to ensure that the dialog will give the user the option of setting a specific range of pages. The example code assumes that there is a file FixedDocumentSequence.xps in the root of the C: drive.
[!code-csharpprintdialog#1] [!code-vbprintdialog#1]
Once the dialog is open, users will be able to select from the printers installed on their computer. They will also have the option of selecting the Microsoft XPS Document Writer to create an XML Paper Specification (XPS) file instead of printing.
Note
The xref:System.Windows.Controls.PrintDialog?displayProperty=nameWithType control of WPF, which is discussed in this topic, should not be confused with the xref:System.Windows.Forms.PrintDialog?displayProperty=nameWithType component of Windows Forms.
Strictly speaking, you can use the xref:System.Windows.Controls.PrintDialog.PrintDocument%2A method without ever opening the dialog. In that sense, the control can be used as an unseen printing component. But for performance reasons, it would be better to use either the xref:System.Printing.PrintQueue.AddJob%2A method or one of the many xref:System.Windows.Xps.XpsDocumentWriter.Write%2A and xref:System.Windows.Xps.XpsDocumentWriter.WriteAsync%2A methods of the xref:System.Windows.Xps.XpsDocumentWriter. For more about this, see Programmatically Print XPS Files.