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When upgrading your existing Visual Basic 6.0 printing code to .NET printing code, you decide to use the Microsoft .NET printing classes using VB.NET.

You may find that it is a lot of work to re-write your printing logic, since the PrintDocument class uses a PrintPage event handler and Visual Basic 6.0 offers developers a procedural approach to specifying new pages.

Printing is different in .NET, but it is more powerful and flexible than printing in Visual Basic 6.0. However, this means a lot of work on the part of the developer when porting from Visual Basic 6.0 to the .NET Framework.

One solution in VB.NET is to use the Printer Compatibility Library (included with the download below), which will allow you to print in a sequential manner like in VB 6:

Printer Compatibility Library 1.0
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92faa81e-e9c1-432c-8c29-813493a04ecd&displaylang=en (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=92faa81e-e9c1-432c-8c29-813493a04ecd&displaylang=en)

The other solution is to re-write your printing logic to use the VB.Net printing classes and the PrintPage event handler.

The Printer Compatibility Library allows code that used the Printer and Printers Collection in Visual Basic 6.0 to be ported to .NET without having to re-write your printing logic.

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