New Printform 1.0 Powerpack question
My company currently uses NTsvr.ocx to run a window's form's application as a service. In these applications we have some form that are printed as Batch sheets for our printers to run jobs. This is done with the old vb6 printform method. Yes, this ocx no longer supported by Microsoft. Yes, this is not a good implementation.
That is not my problem.
My problem is I'm trying to upgrade the services into a VS 2005 Windows service and in doing so I'm losing the ability to use the VB6 printform method without the powerpack. I've installed the powerpack but I am still having issues.
So far I've only been able to get the powerpack to print an active and open form. The problem is if the application is installed as a Windows service. There will not be any open and active forms.
I have been looking through the documentation of the Printform componant but have not found a way to have it print a form without the form actually being visible, active, and open?
I realize that we could create some crystal reports to replace the forms being printed and that will likely be what we do as we continue the upgrade. But currently time constraints make it more viable to get the Printform componant working and then upgrade to crystal reports.
So my question is simply, can this be done?
