Printing from a Windows Service

Question

How can I printing a document on a specific printer from a Windows-Service without the need of any user-interaction?

A string, or a text-file. Maybe Crystalreport?

Thanks.

Solution

The point is not how to print from a windows service or from an application, if you don't want any user interaction to be required you have to specify all print parameters without any need to show a print dialog ( which you can't because a windows service has no access to the UI ).

see here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.printing.printdocument.aspx

Comments

[Joe]

@david well, given he did admit that he doesn't understand that part of the question it's not unfair to say that his answer may not be correct. you're comment's a bit harsh. @pawan, i think the OP wants a method that will programatically and automatically print either via some event or other triggers that is not kicked off by the user. so whether the service is multithreaded or not is irrelevant in this case as david pointed out.

[PawanS]

@David, ya I didn't understand the question, but I tried to give answer to my level best.Still I'm learning... Don't worry, thatx for criticising me. A day come when I'll answer better than u. @joe... thanku, next time I try to understand the question before answering.

[apdevelop]

Unfortunately, printing from windows services is not recommended officially: Discussion.

[Santosh]

If someone comes here looking for the blog post on MSDN linked above, here is the updated link to it: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/dsui_team/…