how to set a default printer in code

[jmilne]

I am an Trainee IT Officer who is learning to use Visual Studio.NET (VB mainly).

I have been asked to write a module which will take a printer name string as a parameter and use it to set the user's default printer. I have looked everywhere in the help, on web sites etc and have found no answer. My senior does not want me to use the API. Someone said to use System.Management namespace but not how. Can you help with a bit more detail?

 

[Schweiger]

There's a code snipet on the net for C#. Perhaps it helps... If you manage to translate it to vb.net I would be interested in the solution

http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/msgs/3/19179.aspx

hope this helps
Andreas Grob