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Actipro Bar Code for WPF by Actipro Software

An easy-to-use vector-based bar code generation suite written in WPF. Actipro Bar Code for WPF adds bar codes directly in your application or in any WPF context, like XPS documents. Actipro Bar Code WPF supports most common symbologies, everything from Code 39 to EAN to UPC. Actipro Bar Code for WPF includes many display options like titles, values, bar heights, bar width ratios, quiet zone thickness, etc. Actipro Bar Code WPF is part of the Actipro WPF Studio. All Actipro WPF component licenses include one year of free upgrades to any major/minor new versions. Actipro Bar Code for WPF Source Code available. Run time Royalty Free.

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.

PartNumbers: PC-518132-161710 518132-161710 PC-518132-161711 518132-161711 PC-518132-161722 518132-161722 PC-518132-161723 518132-161723 PC-518132-161712 518132-161712 PC-518132-161713 518132-161713 PC-518132-161718 518132-161718 PC-518132-161719 518132-161719 PC-518132-161714 518132-161714 PC-518132-161724 518132-161724 PC-518132-161725 518132-161725 PC-518132-161715 518132-161715 PC-518132-161716 518132-161716 PC-518132-161717 518132-161717 PC-518132-161720 518132-161720 PC-518132-161721 518132-161721

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Resources: Read the Actipro WPF Studio help file, Read the Actipro Software End User License Agreement, Download the Actipro WPF Studio V4.0 evaluation on to your computer - Expires after 21 days

Operating System for Deployment: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003

Architecture of Product: 32Bit, 64Bit

Product Type: Component

Component Type: .NET WPF, 100% Managed Code, Source Code

Built Using: Visual C# .NET

Compatible Containers: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, Microsoft Visual C++ 2008, Microsoft Visual C++ 2005, Microsoft Visual C# 2008, Microsoft Visual C# 2005, .NET Framework 3.5, .NET Framework 3.0

Product Class: User Interface Components

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