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Feature details

Linear (1D), Postal & 2D Barcode Symbologies support Visual Studio Design-time support WPF Data-Binding support Microsoft Expression Blend Design-time support Native WPF Printing support XML Paper Specification (XPS) support Crystal Reports for .NET support Visual Studio 2008 ReportViewer Local Reports (RDLC) support ASP.NET Web Services support

Linear (1D), Postal & 2D Barcode Symbologies support Barcode Professional supports most popular Linear (1D), Postal & 2D Symbologies/Standards all-in-one solution. View the complete list of Linear (1D), Postal & 2D Barcode Symbologies currently supported.

Visual Studio Design-time support Barcode Professional for WPF provides full design time support in Visual Studio 2008 product lines including Express Editions. When you drag & drop Barcode Professional from Visual Studio Toolbox, Barcode Professional Designer shows you the barcode to be rendered. Because Barcode Professional leverages new WPF Drawing API, the generated barcodes are vector-based producing high quality outputs. You can verify this fact by using Zooming tool which Visual Studio 2008 features at design time. Barcode Professional also provides Intellisense support in Source Code View as well as in XAML View.

WPF Data-Binding support Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) data binding provides a simple and consistent way for applications to present and interact with data. Barcode Professional supports WPF data-binding scenarios and can be bound to data from a variety of data sources in the form of common language runtime (CLR) objects, ADO.NET, XML, SQL Server Databases, etc.

Microsoft Expression Blend Design-time support Barcode Professional for WPF provides full design time support in Microsoft Expression Blend. Barcode Professional can be easily integrated to Blend's Asset Library so you can add advanced barcodes capabilities to your projects. When you drag & drop Barcode Professional from Blend's Toolbox, Barcode Professional Designer shows you the vector-based barcode to be rendered at runtime. In addition, Barcode Professional provides instant help on all barcode symbologies; available in Blend's Properties Window under Symbology property. This helps designers to learn more about each standard as well as provide mandatory settings that a given specification might state.

Native WPF Printing support Windows Vista and Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.x introduce a new print path - an alternative to Microsoft Windows Graphics Device Interface (GDI) printing - and a vastly expanded set of print system management APIs. Barcode Professional supports native WPF printing producing high quality barcode outputs. You can easily print out barcode by invoking PrintVisual method of WPF PrintDialog class. You can get a Visual object of the output barcode by invoking GetBarcodeVisual method that Barcode Professional classes feature.

XML Paper Specification (XPS) support XML Paper Specification (XPS) is an electronic document format, a spool file format and a page description language. It is an open document format that uses XML, Open Packaging Conventions (OPC), and other industry standards to create cross-platform documents. You can use Barcode Professional classes for XPS barcode integration and because Barcode Professional leverages new WPF Drawing API, it generates vector-based barcodes producing high quality outputs in the XPS document.

Crystal Reports for .NET support Barcode Professional features class methods that allow you to easily deliver barcode images into your reports designed with Crystal Report for .NET. You can use Barcode Professional to generate barcode images that need to be included into WPF Application’s reports. You can use ALL barcode symbologies (linear and 2D) - shipped with Barcode Professional – into your Crystal Report reports. Barcode rotation is also supported and barcode images are maintained when you export your report to PDF, MS Word, and MS Excel file formats.

Visual Studio 2008 ReportViewer Local Reports (RDLC) support Visual Studio 2008 includes a set of report controls called ReportViewer which allow you to deliver RDL-based reports (a.k.a. Local Reports RDLC) with your applications. There’re some reporting scenarios where you maybe need to include some barcode images into your local reports. Due to its flexible design, Barcode Professional lets you to easily add barcoding features to your reports based on RDLC format. Barcode rotation is also supported and barcode images are maintained when you export your report to PDF and MS Excel file formats. Do you need SQL Server Reporting Services support? Barcode Professional for Reporting Services Version allows you to generate barcode images into Report Server Projects (Reporting Services 2000 & 2005 supported).

ASP.NET Web Services support Creating ASP.NET Web Services that needs to serve barcode images is easier than ever with Barcode Professional. Barcode Professional features class methods that allow you to return a byte array representation of the generated barcode which will be automatically serialized by ASP.NET runtime in Web Services scenarios.