How to get the list of all printers in computer

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I need to get the list of all printers that connect to computer   How I can do it in C   WinForms

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Get Network and Local Printer List in ASP NET  This method uses the Windows Management Instrumentation or the WMI interface  It   s a technology used to get information about various systems  hardware  running on a Windows Operating System   private void GetAllPrinterList                         ManagementScope objScope   new ManagementScope ManagementPath DefaultPath     For the local Access             objScope Connect                 SelectQuery selectQuery   new SelectQuery                selectQuery QueryString    Select   from win32 Printer               ManagementObjectSearcher MOS   new ManagementObjectSearcher objScope  selectQuery               ManagementObjectCollection MOC   MOS Get                foreach  ManagementObject mo in MOC                                lstPrinterList Items Add mo  Name   ToString                               Click here to download source and application demo  Demo of application which listed network and local printer

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If you need more information than just the name of the printer you can use the System Management API to query them   var printerQuery   new ManagementObjectSearcher  SELECT   from Win32 Printer    foreach  var printer in printerQuery Get          var name   printer GetPropertyValue  Name        var status   printer GetPropertyValue  Status        var isDefault   printer GetPropertyValue  Default        var isNetworkPrinter   printer GetPropertyValue  Network         Console WriteLine   0   Status   1   Default   2   Network   3                     name  status  isDefault  isNetworkPrinter

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You can also use the LocalPrintServer class  See  System Printing LocalPrintServer      public List lt string gt   InstalledPrinters               get                       return  from PrintQueue printer in new LocalPrintServer   GetPrintQueues new     EnumeratedPrintQueueTypes Local                  EnumeratedPrintQueueTypes Connections    ToList                       select printer Name  ToList                        As stated in the docs  Classes within the System Printing namespace are not supported for use within a Windows service or ASP NET application or service

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Look at the static System Drawing Printing PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters property    It is a list of the names of all installed printers on the system

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Try this   foreach  string printer in System Drawing Printing PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters        MessageBox Show printer

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If you are working with MVC C   this is the way to deal with printers and serial ports for dropdowns   using System Collections Generic  using System Linq  using System IO Ports  using System Drawing Printing       public class Miclass               private void AllViews                         List lt PortClass gt  ports   new List lt PortClass gt                 List lt Printersclass gt  Printersfor   new List lt Printersclass gt                 string   portnames   SerialPort GetPortNames                  PORTS               for  int i   0  i  lt  portnames Count    i                                  ports Add new PortClass     Name   portnames i  Trim    Desc   portnames i  Trim                                   PRINTER               for  int i   0  i  lt  PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters Count  i                                  Printersfor Add new Printersclass     Name   PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters i  Trim    Desc   PrinterSettings InstalledPrinters i  Trim                                         public class PortClass               public string Name   get  set            public string Desc   get  set             public override string ToString                         return string Format   0    1     Name  Desc                       public class Printersclass               public string Name   get  set            public string Desc   get  set             public override string ToString                         return string Format   0    1     Name  Desc

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