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  • Kevin
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    Printer Monitor - take 2

    Hi al

    Please can someone point me in a right direction/tell me how to go about building an appliation that can monitor the printer queue on a windows platform(2000,X P,NT and 2003). What are the steps I need to follow in order to monitor the queues and store the info eg have a counter to count the number of pages printed by a specific username. I have a a brief look on the web and I have had no problem finding limited VB.NET stuff, but I want C# examples, and I would like to work with the windows API's, instead of downloading a component, because then most likely I will have to buy the component... So I was wondering does anyone here know how to do this, or know of any C# resources that explain this concept well

    I am not an exteme newbie to c# but I am still learning and I would like to make this my "learning" project, so any help/suggestions on this topic will be immensly appreciated

    Thanks in advanc
    Kevi

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    • Willy Denoyette [MVP]
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      Re: Printer Monitor - take 2

      Take a look at the System.Manageme nt namespace classes, these are simple
      wrapper arround WMI, and WMI contains a number of CIM classes to manage
      printers and print queues.
      Search MSDN for win32_printer.

      Willy.
      "Kevin" <anonymous@disc ussions.microso ft.com> wrote in message
      news:14335009-BA7F-4C13-BA8B-44769F1522C5@mi crosoft.com...[color=blue]
      > Hi all
      >
      > Please can someone point me in a right direction/tell me how to go about
      > building an appliation that can monitor the printer queue on a windows
      > platform(2000,X P,NT and 2003). What are the steps I need to follow in
      > order to monitor the queues and store the info eg have a counter to count
      > the number of pages printed by a specific username. I have a a brief look
      > on the web and I have had no problem finding limited VB.NET stuff, but I
      > want C# examples, and I would like to work with the windows API's, instead
      > of downloading a component, because then most likely I will have to buy
      > the component... So I was wondering does anyone here know how to do this,
      > or know of any C# resources that explain this concept well.
      >
      > I am not an exteme newbie to c# but I am still learning and I would like
      > to make this my "learning" project, so any help/suggestions on this topic
      > will be immensly appreciated.
      >
      > Thanks in advance
      > Kevin
      >[/color]


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