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I am following a printing tutorial, but it's not working.

The tutorial is here: http://edndoc.esri.com/arcobjects/9.2/NET/ViewCodePages/025b5da7-9b10-4623-a51e-c038c348ce29.PrintActiveViewCS_NetPrintActiveViewCS_Net.cs.htm

Maybe printing in ArcEngine 10 is different. The initial problem is that the PageLayout is null. 

//I tried this like in the sample
docPaper.Orientation = m_hookHelper.PageLayout.Page.Orientation;

//Then I tried passing in my own ActiveView obj and casting to PageLayout
 IPageLayout pageLayout = docActiveView as IPageLayout;

But in both cases they are null.

Does anyone have a good link for printing in ArcEngine 10?

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  • Are you using the pagelayout control?
    – Kirk Kuykendall
    Commented Apr 15, 2011 at 16:36
  • @Kirk Kuykendall No, I don't know anything about that. I tried adding esriControlCommands.ControlsPageLayoutToolbar to my toolbar but it was inactive. So I'm not really clear on what it's supposed to do, any links are appreciated.
    – patrick
    Commented Apr 15, 2011 at 20:42
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    If you want to print a nice looking map, I'd recommend using the pagelayoutcontrol instead of the mapcontrol. help.arcgis.com/en/sdk/10.0/arcobjects_net/conceptualhelp/…
    – Kirk Kuykendall
    Commented Apr 15, 2011 at 20:47

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The ActiveView can be either a Map or a Pagelayout if you check the sample you see that they are checking if the ActiveView is a pagelayout or not at several places. The reason for this is to make it would work in both cases. If you customizing the code and are only interested in printing a MapControl, you should look only on the parts of the code where the ActiveView is not a pagelayout.

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