Creating virtual printer in C#

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I would like to create virtual printer in c# & the created printer should be shows in drop down of printer setting tab while printing the file.
Is that possible in c# or .net, if possible please help me on that

Thanks in advance..

What I have tried:

Able to create printer application, but its not showing in Printer dialog while printing a file

Posted 25-May-17 1:27am

Sobin Sebastian

Updated 25-May-17 4:45am

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2017-05-25T04:45:00

Possible? Yes.

Practical? Hell no!

You're looking at writing a printer driver. Though this is possible to do in C#, in order for it to work, you'd be loading the weight of the .NET Framework into the kernel when the code is running. That's not a wise thing to do.

You'd also be rewriting quite a sizable chunk of the Windows Driver Kit code in C#. This is not an undertaking I would want to tackle and I've been writing code for 40 years.

Drivers like this are best written in C/C++, not C#.

You can find the Windows Driver Kit documentation and samples here[^].