Printing external documents in vb2008 express

[peridhil]

I have created one application to create, store and print Technical Assistance Requests (TAR) in a computer store.

Since the 'TAR' has to have a specific format I created a word document and used the mail merge option to link the necessary fields to a .txt created by my program when i tell it to print.

Everyting works fine but i can't print the document.

I was looking for a solution on MSDN and I found a thread that said vb2008 express can't print word documents, that only the paid versions can, so if anyone faced this problem before or as any idea on how to print the document I would appreciate it.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

 

[RiverGuy]

Do you have any code so far which is not working? It seems strange to me that VB Express would prevent this. Really, all that you should have to do would be to reference and utilize the Word library objects and call routines on your declared objects. It doesn't seem like it would have anything to do with .Net.