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Manual - Forms Control Code EAN / ISBN
IntroductionThe Windows Forms Control Code EAN / ISBN creates the barcode symbologies Code EAN 8/13 and Code ISBN 10 / ISBN 13.
Features
- 100% managed code
- Creates Code EAN 8, EAN 13, ISBN 10, ISBN 13
- Can be used on a form or as a DLL (i.e. not using screen estate)
- Code type auto detection - selects the correct type from your data
- Full design-time support for all properties
- Data bindable
- Automatic checksum calculation
- Safe-mode for easy creation of standards compliant codes
- Easy to use - create and display a barcode with only three lines of code
- Sample projects in C# and VB .net (incl. pre-compiled read-to-run binaries)
- Control-internal bitpattern routines are accessible from the client for owner drawn barcodes.
- Small footprint, only 60 kB, only a single file
Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio Express 2005 or any other .net 2.0 compatible environment. Controls as shipped are compiled against the .net 2.0 framework and will not work in .net 1.1 or older. However, the source code of the component is included at no extra cost so that you can compile the control against the .net 1.1 framework. See the online store for more info.
Demo / Purchasing
A demo is available; it prints the text DEMO near the barcode, see the download area. Please see the online store for licensing options and pricing.
Installation and Setup
Double-click the setup.exe file in the ZIP archive you downloaded and follow the instructions on your screen. This manual will assume that the control, samples and documentation were installed to the default location, C:\Program Files\Wolf Software\Forms Control Code EAN.
After installation, you will want to add the control to the Visual Studio toolbox. In VS select menu Tools > Choose Toolbox Items:
Click the Browse... button and navigate to the installation folder:
Select the file WolfSoftware.Forms-Control-CodeEAN.dll and click Open. The control will be listed in the toolbox (Initially the control will be placed at the end of the list; simply drag it to where you want or right click and have the list sorted alphabetically.):
To verify that everything is working, create a simple project and drag the control to the main form:
First Steps
To get a feeling for the control, select it and hit F4 to open the controls' properties. The properties of interest are grouped under the Barcode tag:
For a start change the dataToEncode property and hit Enter. As you can see the barcode is instantly updated. Play around with the properties to see what they do; see the reference section for a detailed description.
Where to go from here
We've provided two ready-to-compile sample projects, one in C#, the other one in VB .net. You find the samples in the folders C# Sample and VB Sample, respectively, in the installation folder. For your convenience, we also provide pre-compiled, ready-to-run binaries of the samples, you find those in the bin\Debug folders of the respective sample.
Both projects have exactly the same functionality; the end result looks like this:
We provide a walkthrough for both samples:
C# Sample Project
VB .net Sample Project
Make sure to also see the reference section of the manual.