Question

I’m looking for a way to find the name of the Windows default printer using unmanaged C++ (found plenty of .NET examples, but no success unmanaged). Thanks.

Answer 1

The following works great for printing with the win32api from C++

char szPrinterName[255]; unsigned long lPrinterNameLength; GetDefaultPrinter( szPrinterName, &lPrinterNameLength ); HDC hPrinterDC; hPrinterDC = CreateDC('WINSPOOL\0', szPrinterName, NULL, NULL); 

In the future instead of googling ‘unmanaged’ try googling ‘win32 /subject/’ or ‘win32 api /subject/’