• all 128 characters of ASCII

1. Copy folder barcode from your downloaded package, to your IIS folder, e.g. C:\Inetpub.
2. Create a new virtual directory, named barcode.
3. Restart IIS.
4. Test your installation, goto http://YourDomain:port/barcode/pdf417.aspx?Data=123450
5. To create barcode image in your ASP.NET application, you can pass the url to IMG tag src value. For example, <img src="http://YourDomain:port/barcode/pdf417.aspx?Data=123450" />
   

1. Integrate Barcode Controller to your ASP.NET project.
   1. Copy BarcodeLib.Barcode.dll to the folder bin of your web application the barcodes are needed for.
   2. Copy pdf417.aspx file to your web application.
2. Add barcode library to your Visual Studio Toolbox.
   1. Open Toolbox in Visual Studio. Click menu View, and check submenu Toolbox.
   2. Right click Toolbox, click menu Choose Items...
   3. Goto .NET Framework Components tab.
   4. Check component PDF417WebForm, and its namespace is BarcodeLib.Barcode.PDF417
   5. If no component found, click Browse... button and select BarcodeLib.Barcode.dll file.
3. Now you can see the component displayed on Toolbox. You can drag PDF417WebForm on your aspx page, change barcode setting through properties window.

1. Add Reference BarcodeLib.Barcode.dll to your project. Do not copy the dll to the bin directory, Visual Studio will do so, during project compilation time.
   1. In your .NET windows project, right click mouse over Refereces in your Solution Explorer window. Then click menu "Add Reference ...".
   2. Add BarcodeLib.Barcode.dll to your project.
2. Add barcode library to your Visual Studio Toolbox.
   1. Open Toolbox in Visual Studio. Click menu View, and check submenu Toolbox.
   2. Right click Toolbox, click menu Choose Items...
   3. Goto .NET Framework Components tab.
   4. Check component PDF417WinForm, and its namespace is BarcodeLib.Barcode.PDF417
   5. If no component found, click Browse... button and select BarcodeLib.Barcode.dll file.
3. Now you can see the component displayed on Toolbox. You can drag PDF417WinForm on your form, change barcode setting through properties widnow.

1. Add Reference BarcodeLib.Barcode.dll to your .NET project (ASP.NET website, Forms, any .NET project)
   In your .NET class.
   

   BarcodeLib.Barcode.PDF417.PDF417 barcode = BarcodeLib.Barcode.PDF417.PDF417();
   barcode.Data = "your barcode data";
   // other barcode settings.
                           
   // save barcode image into your system
   barcode.drawBarcode("c:/barcode.gif");

• Set the Data property with the value to encode. Type is string.
• Set the BinaryData property with the binary value to encode. Type is byte[]. Once this property value is not null, barcode library will encode this value instead of property Data's value.
• Set the Mode property. Default is CompactionMode.Text.
  • CompactionMode.Binary: It allows encoding all 256 possible 8-bit byte values. This includes all ASCII characters value from 0 to 127 inclusive and provides for international character set support
  • CompactionMode.Text: It allows encoding all printable ASCII characters, i.e. values from 32 to 126 inclusive in accordance with ISO/IEC 646, as well as selected control characters such as TAB (horizontal tab ASCII 9), LF (NL line feed, new line ASCII 10) and CR (carriage return ASCII 13)
  • CompactionMode.Numeric: It allows encoding numeric data.
• Set the ECL property. PDF417 Error Correction Level. Default is ErrorCorrectionLevel.Level_2 (2).
• Set the Compact property to true, if you want Compact PDF417. Default is false.
  Compact PDF417 may be used where space considerations are a primary concern and symbol damage is unlikely.
• Set the ProcessTilde property to true, if you want use the tilde character "~" to specify special characters in the input data. Default is true.
  ~NNN: is used to represent the ASCII character with the value of NNN.
• Setting up barcode image size:
  • Set property UOM (Unit of Measure) for properties BarWidth, LeftMargin, RightMargin, TopMargin and BottomMargin.
    Default is UnitOfMeasure.Pixel (0). Valid values are UnitOfMeasure.Pixel (0), UnitOfMeasure.CM (1), UnitOfMeasure.Inch (2).
  • Set the BarWidth (for bar cell width). Type is float, and default is 1.
  • Set the BarRatio properties. Type is int. Bar cell height = BarWidth * BarRatio.
  • Set the Rows. Type is int. Valid value is 0 (means auto decided by barcode library), and from 3 to 90. Default is 0.
  • Set the Columns. Type is int. Valid value is from 1 t0 30. Default is 5.
  • Set the LeftMargin, RightMargin, TopMargin and BottomMargin properties.
    Types are all float. Default are 10.
  • Set the Resolution property (Value is expressed in DPI - Dots per inch). This property is not working in Windows Controller, we will use end user's windows resultion.
• Set the ImageFormat property for barcode image type. Value can be "gif", "jpg", "png", and "bmp", default is "png".

All .NET Barcode Symbologies:

Codabar Code 11 Code 2 of 5 Code 39 Code 39 Extension Code 93 EAN 8 EAN 8 Supplement 2, 5 EAN 13 EAN 13 Supplement 2, 5 Interleaved 2 of 5

Code 128 EAN 128 MSI Onecode Planet Postnet RM4SCC (British Royal Mail 4-State Customer Barcode) UPC-A UPC-A Supplement 2, 5 UPC-E UPC-E Supplement 2, 5

Data Matrix QR-Code PDF 417

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