Get list of network printers silverlight

Question

I want to get the list of network printers through silverlight. I have seen a few examples of using WMI, but they are not available in Silverlight, so, I was wondering if there are any alternatives to find network printers through silverlight or at least the installed printers...

There is also a question posted here

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '11 at 23:30

4

In Silverlight 5, you can use EnumPrinters Win32 API call through PInvoke. The code is pretty long, so I put together a sample that shows how to enumerate the printers on the machine.

http://10rem.net/blog/2011/09/27/enumerating-printers-using-pinvoke-in-silverlight-5

With Silverlight 4, you're out of luck.

answered Sep 27 '11 at 23:30

Pete

528
3
10

Thanks for the post @Pete. If there is a work around for Silverlight4 kindly tell me, coz we are not in a position to switch to Silverlight5 right now, specially while it is not even in its Beta stage... – Naveed Butt Sep 28 '11 at 06:40
The link appears to be dead. – ChrisF Jul 29 '15 at 15:39

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '11 at 18:34

2

Its my understanding that you cannot do this. You don't have the control over this, it is simply handed off for its built in support. This is the same reason why you can't specify a printer - it just doesn't allow this.

answered Sep 27 '11 at 18:34

Adam Tuliper

29,982
4
53
71

We've all been wrong before - certainty can be an illusion :) – Adam Tuliper Sep 27 '11 at 22:47

Get list of network printers silverlight

2 Answers2

Linked