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I'm doing some work with HTML and I want to print (on paper) these HTML files, in reality, the file does not exist, everything is saved in a string, all text in HTML, but I would like to print, already formatted...

for example:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string HTML =
"<html>" +
"<head>" +
"    <style type=\"text/css\">" +
"    .title {" +
"        color: blue;" +
"        text-decoration: bold;" +
"        text-size: 1em;" +
"    }" +
"    .author {" +
"        color: gray;" +
"    }" +
"    </style>" +
"</head>" +
"<body>" +
"    <p>" +
"    <span class=\"title\">{0}</span>" +
"    <span class=\"author\">{1}</span>" +
"    </p>" +
"</body>" +
"</html>";

            // Just a sample of what I whant to do...
            // PseudoCode
            //Render the HTML code
            RenderHTML aa = new RenderHTML(string.Format(HTML, "Alexandre", "Bencz"));
            aa.PrintDocumentInPaper();
        }
    }
}

I found that: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/w290k23d.aspx

But, I whant to know if have another way to do this, a more better way.. ?

ecbrodie
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    See this post: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2593147/html-agility-pack-make-code-look-neat. It recommends using an HtmlTidy wrapper to do all the formatting and then print it. – Marcel N. Jan 02 '13 at 00:50
  • I understand this is probably just some sample code, but I would recommend using the `@` operator at the start of the string to signify it as a string literal, which will allow you use avoid all of the concatenation. That, or if you are concatenating the data, make sure you're using a `StringBuilder`. Best of luck! – Maurice Reeves Jan 02 '13 at 03:02

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You were on the right track with the webbrowser MSDN class, and I think you can do this quite easily.

1) You'll need to populate its document content via a Stream (of your text string), not a saved file. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.webbrowser.documentstream%28v=vs.100%29.aspx

2) Then simply fire the Print function http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.webbrowser.print%28v=vs.100%29.aspx

p.s. with the links I've provided, I've assumed you're using .Net 4.0.

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