Why doesn't PrintDialog show up under 64-bit Vista?

[VerySerious]

I have an ordinary PrintDialog and printing functionality written in C#,
developed with Visual Studio 2008. Printing works fine for users with 32-bit
Vista and XP and Server 2003. For the users who have 64-bit Vista, nothing
happens at all! No error message, but the PrintDialog simply does nothing.

Does anyone know what I can do to make the PrintDialog work in 64-bit Vista?
I do not have a machine with 64-bit Vista to test or reproduce the issue.

Thank you very much.
Nicole

[Lawrence Garvin (MVP)]

Post by VerySerious
I have an ordinary PrintDialog and printing functionality written in C#,
developed with Visual Studio 2008. Printing works fine for users with 32-bit
Vista and XP and Server 2003. For the users who have 64-bit Vista, nothing
happens at all! No error message, but the PrintDialog simply does nothing.
Does anyone know what I can do to make the PrintDialog work in 64-bit Vista?
I do not have a machine with 64-bit Vista to test or reproduce the issue.

Then you probably shouldn't be developing software "designed for use on 64
bit systems"!

[KB]

Hey Lawrence,

Lighten up. The post is legitimate and your response was snippy. While I
agree that you should develop 64 bit with a 64 bit machine, which I am doing,
I also can duplicate the PrintDialog not opening under Vista X64. Anybody
out there have a comment intended to help rather than chastise?

Post by Lawrence Garvin (MVP)

Post by VerySerious
I have an ordinary PrintDialog and printing functionality written in C#,
developed with Visual Studio 2008. Printing works fine for users with 32-bit
Vista and XP and Server 2003. For the users who have 64-bit Vista, nothing
happens at all! No error message, but the PrintDialog simply does nothing.
Does anyone know what I can do to make the PrintDialog work in 64-bit Vista?
I do not have a machine with 64-bit Vista to test or reproduce the issue.

Then you probably shouldn't be developing software "designed for use on 64
bit systems"!
--
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)
MS WSUS Website: http://www.microsoft.com/wsus
My Websites: http://www.onsitechsolutions.com;
http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin

[l***@seanet.com]

Post by KB
Hey Lawrence,
Lighten up.  The post is legitimate and your response was snippy.  While I
agree that you should develop 64 bit with a 64 bit machine, which I am doing,
I also can duplicate the PrintDialog not opening under Vista X64.  Anybody
out there have a comment intended to help rather than chastise?

Post by Lawrence Garvin (MVP)

Post by VerySerious
I have an ordinary PrintDialog and printing functionality written in C#,
developed with Visual Studio 2008.  Printing works fine for users with
32-bit
Vista and XP and Server 2003.  For the users who have 64-bit Vista,
nothing
happens at all!  No error message, but the PrintDialog simply does
nothing.
Does anyone know what I can do to make the PrintDialog work in 64-bit Vista?
I do not have a machine with 64-bit Vista to test or reproduce the issue.

Then you probably shouldn't be developing software "designed for use on 64
bit systems"!
--
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP(x2), MCTS(x5), MCP(x7), MCBMSP
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)
MS WSUS Website:http://www.microsoft.com/wsus
My Websites:http://www.onsitechsolutions.com;
http://wsusinfo.onsitechsolutions.com
My MVP Profile:http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin- Hide quoted text -

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We have the same problem and we can't get it to work either.

And yes we ARE developing on 64 bit Vista. We have brand new Dell quad
proc Vista Business 64 bit machines that are otherwise quite snappy
and run Vista itself, apps, and the development environments (both
VS05 and 08, etc) very well and very fast. They are all fully updated,
tweaked, and configured Vista 64 bit itself, for our network
environment, and for our printers.

But we cannot get the PrintDialog to work no matter what, and yes
we've set UseEx... and have tried all the other tricks and tips out
there.

We wrote a test app that *will* open a PrintDialog, but only AFTER the
process (either our full up app suite or the test app) are left
hanging on the ShowDialog call, completely unresponsive, for 2-10
**MINUTES**!!!!

No Exceptions thrown, no return value, no hanging app interference
from Vista/Windows, no nothing.

[Lawrence Garvin (MVP)]

Post by l***@seanet.com

Post by VerySerious
I have an ordinary PrintDialog and printing functionality written in C#,
developed with Visual Studio 2008. Printing works fine for users with
32-bit
Vista and XP and Server 2003. For the users who have 64-bit Vista,
nothing
happens at all! No error message, but the PrintDialog simply does
nothing.

We have the same problem and we can't get it to work either.

Both of these questions should be asked in the DOTNET newsgroups, not the
CERTIFICATION newsgroups.

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.controls seems like a good
place to start.

microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp is another possibility.

From the web interface, try this link:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/aa974230.aspx

[Ron]

Post by VerySerious
I have an ordinary PrintDialog and printing functionality written in C#,
developed with Visual Studio 2008. Printing works fine for users with 32-bit
Vista and XP and Server 2003. For the users who have 64-bit Vista, nothing
happens at all! No error message, but the PrintDialog simply does nothing.
Does anyone know what I can do to make the PrintDialog work in 64-bit Vista?
I do not have a machine with 64-bit Vista to test or reproduce the issue.
Thank you very much.
Nicole

Nicole,

I dont know if you are still having this issue...

I had the same issue, and in reading up on the printdialog class, ran across
the fact that the dialog will not show properly on AMD64 processors, and the
fix was to set UseEXDialog to true

dialog.UseEXDialog = true

This was "supposed" to be default to true, BUT it in fact does not. Setting
this property, i was able to get the print dialog to show.

Hope this helps...

[PaxTerminus]

Many thanks - that works (Vista x64 Intel)

Post by Ron

Post by VerySerious
I have an ordinary PrintDialog and printing functionality written in C#,
developed with Visual Studio 2008. Printing works fine for users with 32-bit
Vista and XP and Server 2003. For the users who have 64-bit Vista, nothing
happens at all! No error message, but the PrintDialog simply does nothing.
Does anyone know what I can do to make the PrintDialog work in 64-bit Vista?
I do not have a machine with 64-bit Vista to test or reproduce the issue.
Thank you very much.
Nicole

Nicole,
I dont know if you are still having this issue...
I had the same issue, and in reading up on the printdialog class, ran across
the fact that the dialog will not show properly on AMD64 processors, and the
fix was to set UseEXDialog to true
dialog.UseEXDialog = true
This was "supposed" to be default to true, BUT it in fact does not. Setting
this property, i was able to get the print dialog to show.
Hope this helps...

[Laurel]

Thanks for the info Ron. On a similar note, the dialog that is displayed
when UseEXDialog is set to "true" is different in that the "OK" button name
now says "Print" instead. For my app, I need it to say "Ok" - do you by
chance know of any way to change that?

Laurel

"Ron" wrote: