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PrintPreviewControl still broken in Beta2?

Just got Beta2 and the printpreviewcontrol still appears not to work. I copied the code directly from the help, but nothing gets displayed on the preview. If I call print, then it prints out correctly, it is just the preview which does not work. Here is the code (straight from MSDN):

// Declare the PrintPreviewControl object and the
// PrintDocument object.
internal PrintPreviewControl PrintPreviewControl1;
private System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument docToPrint =
new System.Drawing.Printing.PrintDocument();
private void InitializePrintPreviewControl()
{
// Construct the PrintPreviewControl.
this.PrintPreviewControl1 = new PrintPreviewControl();
// Set location, name, and dock style for PrintPreviewControl1.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Location = new Point(88, 80);
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Name = "PrintPreviewControl1";
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
// Set the Document property to the PrintDocument
// for which the PrintPage event has been handled.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Document = docToPrint;
// Set the zoom to 25 percent.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Zoom = 0.25;
// Set the document name. This will show be displayed when
// the document is loading into the control.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.Document.DocumentName = "c:\\someFile";
// Set the UseAntiAlias property to true so fonts are smoothed
// by the operating system.
this.PrintPreviewControl1.UseAntiAlias = true;
// Add the control to the form.
this.Controls.Add(this.PrintPreviewControl1);
// Associate the event-handling method with the
// document's PrintPage event.
this.docToPrint.PrintPage +=
new System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventHandler(
docToPrint_PrintPage);
this.docToPrint.Print();
}
// The PrintPreviewControl will display the document
// by handling the documents PrintPage event
private void docToPrint_PrintPage(
object sender, System.Drawing.Printing.PrintPageEventArgs e)
{
// Insert code to render the page here.
// This code will be called when the control is drawn.
// The following code will render a simple
// message on the document in the control.
string text = "In docToPrint_PrintPage method.";
System.Drawing.Font printFont =
new Font("Arial", 35, FontStyle.Regular);
e.Graphics.DrawString(text, printFont,
Brushes.Black, 10, 10);
}

I then called InitializePrintPreviewControl() from a button click event.

Any ideas?

Zaph0d

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