Introducing BarCode Library for .NET (coming soon in v2013.1)

In the upcoming v2013.1 release, we will introduce a new, standalone Barcode Generation Library for .NET. We always had the ability to use barcodes inside our Reporting Suite, and last year we released a WinForms control to render the barcodes.

With the upcoming v2013.1, we have reworked and separated everything out into a lightweight non visual library, so you can take advantage of it regardless of the platform you are developing for.

We will support the following barcode types:

·         Codabar

·         Industrial2of5

·         Interleaved2of5

·         Code39

·         Code39Extended

·         Code93

·         Code93Extended

·         Code128

·         Code11

·         CodeMSI

·         PostNet

·         EAN13

·         UPCA

·         EAN8

·         EAN128

·         UPCSupplemental2

·         UPCSupplemental5

·         UPCE0

·         UPCE1

·         Matrix2of5

·         PDF41,

·         DataMatrix

·         QRCode

·         IntelligentMail

·         DataMatrixGS1

Here is a small example on how to create a QR code:

BarCode barCode = newBarCode();

barCode.Symbology = Symbology.QRCode;

barCode.CodeText = "http://www.devexpress.com";

barCode.CodeBinaryData = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(barCode.CodeText);

barCode.Options.QRCode.CompactionMode = QRCodeCompactionMode.Byte;

barCode.Options.QRCode.ErrorLevel = QRCodeErrorLevel.Q;

barCode.Options.QRCode.ShowCodeText = true;

barCode.BarCodeImage.Save("BarCode.png");     

Fig 1: Generated QR Code

Cheers,

Azret