Actipro Bar Code for WPF

What's New in Actipro Bar Code for WPF 2011.2?

• App-Wide Themes - Actipro Themes includes professionally-designed themes that cover all system and Office themes including high contrast mode.  The themes apply to all Actipro controls and optionally to native WPF controls.
• Styles/Templates for Native WPF Controls - Enhanced styles and templates for all native WPF controls (TextBox, ToolBox, TreeView, etc.) are included.  These styles can be automatically applied app-wide via a single line of code.  Or you can choose to use them on specific controls only, accessible via pre-defined style keys.
• Common Asset Pool - There are well over 800 asset resources for each of the system and Office themes supported. All custom and native control styles/templates use the same assets. This ensures that controls placed next to each other always render with similar colors that complement each other.
• Advanced Tinting - Actipro Themes supports the tinting of any theme or portion of a theme towards a certain color. This means that you can take a built-in theme like the Office Silver theme, and make it a red one instead.
• Appearance Improvements - Actipro Themes includes updated menu, toolbar, and statusbar appearances that were inspired by Visual Studio 2010’s look. The simplified design uses a darker workspace area, with lighter content areas in each docking window.  This higher contrast appearance focuses the end user's eye on the content without distracting it with non-active UI elements, thus making for a more effective user interface.

What's New in Actipro Bar Code for WPF 2011?

• 2D QR Code - Now includes a complete QR Code implementation that fully adheres to standards and allows you to code an enormous amount of data since it is two-dimensional.

What's New in Actipro Bar Code for WPF 2010?

• Improved VS 2010 support.

What's New in Actipro Bar Code for WPF 2009.2?

• Version 2009.2 adds designer support for Visual Studio 2010 and Expression Blend 3.

Actipro Bar Code for WPF is a bar code generation product natively written for the Windows Presentation Foundation framework. Use bar codes in your organization to more efficiently input data or even save money on postage (via the use of Postnet).

Actipro Bar Code for WPF is useful for adding bar codes to any WPF application or report. Bar codes can be saved in XPS document content, saved to image files, rendered directly to a WPF DrawingContext, or added as a child control in any FixedDocument, FlowDocument or other WPF control.

Actipro Bar Code or WPF is part of the Actipro WPF Studio. Actipro WPF Studio currently includes: Actipro Ribbon, Actipro Wizard, Actipro Bar Code and the Actipro Shared Library. Actipro WPF Studio licenses include one year of free upgrades to any new WPF product versions and also any new WPF component products introduced. All components included in the suite have extensive Visual Studio 2008 Designer functionality.

Actipro Bar Code takes all the work out of the bar code generation process, by allowing you to simply say what value to encode. It will automatically calculate any appropriate checksums and will generate the bar code for you. The output is completely customizable with many options, everything from setting the bar height to display of the encoded value below the bar lines.

The most common symbologies are all supported, including EAN-13, EAN-8, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code 39 (and full ASCII variant), Code 93 (and full ASCII variant), Code 128, Codabar, Interleaved 2 of 5, and Postnet.

BarCode Control Features

• Implemeted as a WPF Control that can be used in any WPF context.
• Use in a FixedDocument, FlowDocument, or add to an XPS document.
• Add borders around the bar code and adjust their corner radius.
• Add a caption above the bar code.
• Easily switch between symbologies.
• Rotate to any angle and scale the bar code using WPF layout transforms.
• Provides a lot of features that you can't get using bar code fonts (a.k.a. fontware).

Symbology Features

• Easily render a bitmap of the bar code and save to any image format (.png, .gif, .jpg, etc.) supported by WPF.
• Programmatically measure and render bar codes to a DrawingContext.
• Set the fore and background colors of the bar code output.
• Set the bar height of linear bar codes.
• Set the minimum bar height/width ratio so that long bar codes are tall enough to be read properly.
• Specify the thickness of the quiet zone surrounding the bar code.
• Use multiple value display styles for linear bar codes including:
• None - The value is not displayed.
• Centered - The value is centered horizontally.
• LeftAligned - The value is left-aligned.
• RightAligned - The value is right-aligned.
• CharactersAlignedWithBars - The characters in the value are centered under the bars that represent each character.
• QuietZoneExtension - The first and last characters are drawn in the lead/tail quiet zones and the remaining characters are centered under the encoded character runs. This is used for symbologies such as UPC-A.
• QuietZoneExtensionLeft - The first character is drawn in the lead quiet zones and the remaining characters are centered under the encoded character runs. This is used for symbologies such as EAN-13.
• Specify how far (if at all) the displayed value "intrudes" into the bar lines (used in bar codes like UPC-A).
• Inclusion of ValidationRule classes for every symbology, that can be used to validate input.
• Validate bar code values programmatically.

Code and Requirements

• Includes detailed documentation and a sample project that demos nearly every feature.
• Written in 100% pure C# and is based on the Windows Presentation Foundation framework.
• Requires the .NET 3.0 or 3.5 run-time framework.
• Full XAML support and XBAP compatibility.
• Extensive Visual Studio 2008 designer capabilities.
• Visual Studio 2008 and/or Expression Blend are recommended development tools for this product.