Discuss "Print out data on a letterhead format" in the .Net Development forum.

Hi guys

i'm going to be re-writing and classic asp application to .Net,
now one of the functions takes a report and displays it on
the comapnys letterhead i.e. the page has a header and footer,
and this page prints out perfectly on a A4 page.

If the report is longer than an A4 page, it will split the report on to
2 pages. How i've worked this out is by counting the number of
lines per report and splitting it up every 30 or so lines.

Is there a better way to do this in .Net?

Shem

are you using some kind of report object?

Maybe the object has some kind of function for that?

no i'm not, built the functions myself.

basically all i do is count number of lines, when i reach a certain amount of
lines i just add a footer, then add a header and then loop through the rest
of the results until again it reaches a certain amount of lines and so the whole
process continues.

Shem

Since we're talking .net...you should take advantage of report objects. See this: Reports Web Site : The Official Microsoft ASP.NET Site

__________________
jmurrayhead
If you agree with me... click the icon!
If my post solved your problem, click the button in the lower right-hand corner of the post.

Join our Folding team: DeveloperBarn Folding