Silverlight reporting, sending the report to the printer, accessing printer's preferences.

[Erik Renaud]

Hi Team

I'm currently working on a report using Telerik's reporting for silverlight. Everything works find,  ReportsParameter are being sent in RenderBegin event method and the report is being rendered the way it has to be.

If possible, how could I set programmatically the settings of the printer:

- I want to print in A5 format.

- I want to select a printer from the available printers on client side.

In other words: I want to access printer's preferences.

In the forum, I saw capabilities for asp.net, what about Silverlight?

So far, I've used ReportViewerModel to "model.PrintReportCommand.Execute(null) to execute automatically the print command when the report is displayed. The Printer's dialog is being displayed and that's what I need to avoid.

Regards

Ed

[Massimiliano Bassili]

As far as I know you cannot access the printer settings of the client as this would be a security vulnerability. Telerik have this KB that elaborates on the print from the web viewer and according to their explanations I am correct i.e. "there is no way to list the available printers".

Cheers