get a list of local and network printers with c#

I have a web application with asp.net 2.0 and I want to create a dropdown menu showing the printers installed on the client machine? How is that possible?

I tried the following code

foreach (string strPrinter in System.Drawing.Printing.PrinterSettings.InstalledPrinters)
{
   // add to list
}

but it shows only the local printers attached with the server, not the client m开发者_如何学JAVAachine.

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You can't get it in ASP.NET because that's running on your server. You can't get it in Javascript either. It's just not available; see, for example, http://javascript.about.com/od/events/a/print_3.htm.

The only solution I can think of is to build an ActiveX control, and you then you could use the C# you have in the question, except running on the client. Of course, that limits you to IE.

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if you want to show the installed printers on client machine, then you might have to use the javascript as the code you have written will be executed on server side.