PrinterCollection Class

Article
09/30/2015

Provides a collection of printers for use by upgraded Visual Basic 6.0 printing code.

Namespace: Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Printing.Compatibility.VB6
Assembly: Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Vs (in Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Vs.dll)

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Printing.Compatibility.VB6.PrinterCollection

Syntax

public sealed class PrinterCollection : IEnumerable

public ref class PrinterCollection sealed : IEnumerable

[<Sealed>]
type PrinterCollection = 
    class
        interface IEnumerable
    end

Public NotInheritable Class PrinterCollection
    Implements IEnumerable

Constructors

	Name	Description
	PrinterCollection()	Initializes a new instance of the PrinterCollection class.

Properties

	Name	Description
	Count	Returns the number of printers in the Printers collection.
	Item[Int32]	Returns a specific member of the Printers collection by index number.

Methods

	Name	Description
	Equals(Object)	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetHashCode()	(Inherited from Object.)
	GetType()	(Inherited from Object.)
	ToString()	(Inherited from Object.)

Explicit Interface Implementations

	Name	Description
	IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()	Returns an enumerator that iterates through a collection.

Remarks

The PrinterCollection class exposes a global Printers collection that returns a collection of available printers on the system.

The Printers collection uses a zero-based index: the first Printer has an Index of 0, the second has an Index of 1, and so on.

The Printers collection is read-only; you cannot add or remove a Printer object from Printers.

Note

Functions and objects in the Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Printing.Compatibility.VB6 namespace are provided for use by the tools for upgrading from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic. In most cases, these functions and objects duplicate functionality that you can find in other namespaces in the .NET Framework. They are necessary only when the Visual Basic 6.0 code model differs significantly from the .NET Framework implementation.

Examples

The following example demonstrates how to return a list of printers. It assumes that you have a ListBox control named ListBox1.

Dim i As Integer
For i = 0 To Printers.Count - 1
    ListBox1.Items.Add(Printers(i).DeviceName)
Next

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.