Printdialog with networked printers

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

16 Mar 2006 10:04 AM

Dean Maughan

I have an issue with PrintDialog taking a very long time to open
(greater then 10 minutes) when there are a lot of Networked printers
installed on the computer that are not currently accessable.
How can I get around the long opening time of the Dialog, it seems to be
trying to contact each printer before it opens and waits for each to
timeout before moving to the next (just a guess). I do not need to check
the printers until the actual printing so I can easily skip the check,
but I see no way of turning this off.
The application is written using the .Net 2.0 libraries.
Any Ideas?

Dean