Printing from the WebBrowser control

There are three methods for doing this.

1. Sending ^p key, using SendKeys, which is not really clean programming :P

2. Using the shell command, and rundll32

Shell "rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MSHTML.DLL,PrintHTML " & _ "http://www.developerfusion.com" , vbMinimizedFocus

3. Finally, method 3, which I think is the best method, and uses the built-in commands for the web-browser.

Private Sub PrintUserPage()
'navigate to the page you want
'you can delete this if you want to print the current page
WebBrowser1.Navigate ("http://www.developerfusion.com/")

DoEvents
'print
WebBrowser1.ExecWB OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER
'you can change OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER to OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER if you wish

End Sub

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