Adding a printer

How to programmatically add a printer.

This will show how to add a printer to the current Windows workstation's Printers and faxes page. This will effectively render the printer usable by the workstation.

Here's the code example.

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using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

namespace WindowsApplication1
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        [DllImport("winspool.drv", SetLastError=true)]
        public static extern bool AddPrinterConnection(string pName);

        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (AddPrinterConnection("\\\\PrintServer\\PrinterName"))
            { MessageBox.Show("ok"); }
            else
            {
                throw new Win32Exception();
            }
        }
    }
}