QedPrinter Quick and Dirty Printer
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QedPrinter Description

The QedPrinter application was developed to be a small test tool that uses a class to quickly implement printing with C# (i.e. yet another .NET printing utility), using the ubiquous Windows program WordPad.exe as its print engine. It seems to be always true that one thing leads to another; this component is at two or three removes from the actual application I'm writing to interface with my employer's customer base. In the course of developing and testing the application, I realized that I wanted to be able to print "stuff" now. After several hours of on-line searching, while I'd come across several interesting articles and classes implementing the PrintDocument class (from which I intend to someday learn how to use that class), I'd not found a simple way to print simple text without investing time I don't have at the moment in learning to use the PrintDocument class.So, since it was looking as though I'd have to write my own class/component to do what I wanted, I stopped looking for a ready-made one and did just that. I've found The Code Project to be a great resource and have been intending for some time to get around to writing and submitting articles on some classes/components (both original and extensions of others' work) I've written; QedPrinter seems to me a good case to use as my first.Note: QedPrinter contains no form; the above image is of the demo project superimposed on an instance of WordPad which it spawned via QedPrinter.

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