Get List of Printer Name installed in your PC’s (C Sharp)

C# (C-Sharp) is a programming language developed by Microsoft that runs on the .NET Framework. And used to develop web application, desktop application, mobile application, games application and much more.

C# is a simple, modern, general-purpose, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft within its .NET initiative led by Anders Hejlsberg.

This tutorial is how to get list of printer name installed in your PC using C# Development.

Please follow the steps.

• First Create a project to in VS (Visual Studio);

Click file and New then Project.

• After that Please follow this steps.
  1. Click or select Visual C#
  2. At this point I choice Windows Form App (.NET Framework).
  3. Create project name “getListPrinterName“
  4. Then Ok;

• after the project begin.
  1. add DataGridView to the form to display the list of all Printer name install from you PC’s
  2. And Button function for Get Execution.

• Now lets Start to the Code. and first install the library that can get PrinterSettings
  • Goto Manage NuGets Package
  • and search and Install “System.Drawing.Common”

• Code

            DataTable dt = new DataTable();  // declate datatable for temp. storage
            dt.Columns.Add("PrinterName"); // add column in datatable
                foreach (String printer in PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters) // loop all printer properties get from your PC
                {
                    dt.Rows.Add(printer.ToString()); // stored printer name datatable
                }
            dataGridView1.DataSource = dt; // display all data from datatable to datagridview

• Sample View

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