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How to Generate Bar Code in C#?

CIP Official September 1, 2019

Generate bar code C#, Barcodes make doing business much more efficient for companies. Barcodes provide a method to track and store information about goods, from individual items to large stocks of thousands or even millions of items. They serve an important role and provide advantages compared with manually entering information

You don’t need to remember any details of products to view details or to sale that product. So, just generate a bar code and sale it just by scanning it.

Usually we store product IDs or any other unique information of Product like IMEI number e-t-c.

There are many libraries to generate bar code in C#. In this tutorial we’ll use Zen Bar Code DLL File to generate Bar Code.

Steps to Generate Bar Code in C#:

  1. First of all Download the ZenBarCode DLL file from this Link
  2. Go to your solution explorer and right click on References and select Add Reference.
  3. In Reference Manager window, click on Browse button. Select ZenBarCode.dll from file dialogue window. Click on OK Button.
  4. You will find the ZenBarCode Reference in Solution Explorer.
  5. Next step is to add your controls to your Form. We need to add a TextBox, PictureBox and Button control from Toolbox.
  6. We’ll enter out text which we want to encrypt into bar code in the text box.
  7. double click on the button to create onClick event. And the add the following code: 
 string barCode = txtBarCode.Text;
            try
            {
                Zen.Barcode.Code128BarcodeDraw brCode = 
                Zen.Barcode.BarcodeDrawFactory.Code128WithChecksum;
                pictureBox1.Image = brCode.Draw(barCode, 60);
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
              
            }

Now click on start button or press Ctrl+F5 key to run your program and enter some text in the textbox and click on generate button.

C# will encode your text into a bar code and display it on the picture box. Now you can print your bar code and try to scan it using any bar code scanner.

Printing Barcode:

Click on this Link to learn how to Print your generated bar code:

Watch full Video tutorial on YouTube: https://youtu.be/dojOKLaZSDw

Source Code:

Download Source Code

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