printing from a webbrowser control

[agent154]

I'm trying to programatically set IE options such that when I print a page from my control, it will not print the header and footer, as is the default setting for printing a web page from IE. I found out how to do so from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313723, however I am having problems setting it back as desired.

What I want to do is have the values in the registry clear when I click the print button (which will bring up the print dialog using webbrowser.ShowPrintDialog() ), and then set it back right away. When I use the following code, though, it all happens so fast that when the user goes to print, the header and footer have been replaced again.

private void print(bool preview)
        {
            string strKey = "Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer\\PageSetup";
            bool bolWritable = true;
            string strName1 = "footer";
            string strName2 = "header";
            object oldFooter = "";
            object oldHeader = "";

            RegistryKey oKey = Registry.CurrentUser.OpenSubKey(strKey, bolWritable);

            try
            {
                oldFooter = oKey.GetValue(strName1);
                oldHeader = oKey.GetValue(strName2);
            }
            catch { }

            oKey.SetValue(strName1, "");
            oKey.SetValue(strName2, "");
            //oKey.Close();

            if (preview == true)
                this.webBrowser1.ShowPrintPreviewDialog();
            else
                this.webBrowser1.Print();

            oKey.SetValue(strName1, oldFooter);
            oKey.SetValue(strName2, oldHeader);
            oKey.Close();

        }

Can anybody think of a creative way for me to delete the registry key and re-create it at the right time? I don't want to do it at program open/close, because I can't guarantee that the program will not crash, and then cause the setting to not be re-applied. And I don't want to rely on Print(), because that may not always print to the user's default (or even desired) printer. I want them to be able to choose their printer.

[thines01]

You can split the program into two functions --
When it is run once, it sets the values
When it is run again, it unsets the values.

[agent154]

Sadly that solution is worse than anything else I could have thought, but thanks for the input.

I ended up solving it after hours of thinking and tweaking. I had it delete the values when pushing the print button, and re-setting the values using the Activated() event. This way, the values do not get reset before the print dialog box closes. I also put the code in the Closing() event for good measure, just to make sure that when the app closes, that the values are put back if they hadn't already.a