How to build a simple ASP.NET AJAX Barcode Generator with Barcode Professional
Product Barcode Professional for ASP.NET Published 07/07/2008 Updated 07/07/2008
Requirements
Neodynamic Barcode Professional (4.0 or later) for ASP.NET
Microsoft .NET Framework (2.0 or later)
Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Framework (1.0 or later)
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET (2005 or later - Visual Web Developer Express Edition)
This Barcode Professional demo - which source code files can be found at the end of this page available for downloading - demonstrates how easily you can use Barcode Professional control and ASP.NET AJAX Framework to design, in few minutes, a simple AJAX-based Barcode Generator.
The ASP.NET AJAX Barcode Generator application sample leverages ASP.NET AJAX Framework for input user interaction and Barcode Professional for dynamic barcode image generation purposes. This AJAX Barcode Generator lets users filling up a simple form requesting the value to encode and a barcode Symbology/Standard. A live preview of how the barcode will look like is displayed in real time while the user types. The barcode image is dynamically created by Barcode Professional component as is shown in the following figure.
An ASP.NET AJAX Barcode Application sample.
Barcode preview is updated while user types in the text boxes.
Sample Files Download
Here are the VB.NET and C# versions of this sample. Please download the zip file and extract it. After that, you'll find all necessary files to reproduce this step by step guide.
For Barcode Professional 4.0 for ASP.NET
- For Visual Basic.NET: AJAXBarcodeVB.zip (262 KB)
- For Visual C#.NET: AJAXBarcodeCS.zip (262 KB)
For Barcode Professional 5.0 for ASP.NET
- For Visual Basic.NET: AJAXBarcodeAspNetVB.zip (310 KB)
- For Visual C#.NET: AJAXBarcodeAspNetCS.zip (310 KB)
Remember to download and install ImageDraw in order to reproduce this sample demo.