Print Preview of Datagridview in Window Forms||Print Preview Dialog Example

How to see the preview of data grid view in Window forms

Visual Studio->New project->Window Form Application

Step 1:
Drag and place DataGridView on the form and bind it with a datatable

 Step 2:
Place one button and name it Preview, generate it's click event by double clicking on it We will use this event to see preview.

 Step 3:
Add Print Preview Dialog control to the Form

 Step 4:
Put Print Document control from toolbox under printing tab, Double click on it to generate it's PrintPage event.

Then The Form[design] looks like this

Write the code behind as follows:

Form.cs

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.ComponentModel;

using System.Data;

using System.Drawing;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Forms;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

namespace previewdatagridview

{

    public partial class Form1 : Form

    {

        SqlConnection con = new SqlConnection("Data Source=Shailaja;Initial Catalog=Peers;User Id=sa;Password=123");

        public Form1()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

            SqlDataAdapter da = new SqlDataAdapter("Select * from emp", con);

            DataSet ds = new DataSet();

            da.Fill(ds);

            dataGridView1.DataSource = ds.Tables[0];

        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

        {

            printPreviewDialog1.Document = printDocument1;

            printPreviewDialog1.PrintPreviewControl.Zoom = 1;

            printPreviewDialog1.ShowDialog();

        }

        private void printDocument1_PrintPage(object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e)

        {

            Bitmap dataGridViewImage = new Bitmap(this.dataGridView1.Width, this.dataGridView1.Height);

            dataGridView1.DrawToBitmap(dataGridViewImage, new Rectangle(0, 0, this.dataGridView1.Width, this.dataGridView1.Height));

            e.Graphics.DrawImage(dataGridViewImage, 0, 0);

        }

      

    }

}

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