bar code integration

[Rod Snyder]

I'm looking at building in bar code ability to an intranet library
application (asp.net vb). Any suggestions on where to look for
documentation, examples or components would be appreciated.

Rod

 

[avnrao]

check this..
http://www.softeksoftware.co.uk/windows.html

Av.

 

[Steve Drake]

If you want to write bar codes, you could download a barcode font on the
server, use GDI+ to generate a GIF.

So to include in a page, you would have something like :

<IMG src='barcode.aspx?1234567'/>

where 1234567 is the barcode.

PS

I've not tried this, I have just thought it up now, but I do know barcode
fonts exists as I have used them for FAT CLIENT apps.

 

[Rod Snyder]

I am going to need to look into an entire solution; hardware scanners and
such. I was wondering if anyone has any comments on experience with such
systems.
Rod

 

[Dan Brussee]

Two things that may not seem too obvious at first...

1. You cant scan a screen image of a barcode. At least not on a normal
screen. You will need to have printed barcodes and use the scanner to
get the barcode.

2. Most cheap barcode scanners use a driver called a "keyboard wedge"
or some such terminology. This means that when you scan something it
ends up as keyboard codes - as if you typed the value of the barcode
in on the keyboard. If the cursor is on a text box, it gets typed in
directly.

 

[MontereySoft]

You can using font embeding. More info can be found at support.morovia.com