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Hi Jacob,

We are on the process of doing that for a client. We used a simple jQUery library that converted the value into a barcode. The client inserts "abc" and jQuery transforms it into barcode.

Nuno

Hi Jacob

I would try to go with this http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/20823/Barcode-Image-Generation-Library as you cannot print output from jQuery and it seems to be one of the most recent framework otherwise I will suggest using qr codes instead.

Best regards, Anders

I would use ZXing.Net - http://nuget.org/packages/ZXing.Net/

It supports a lot of different formats (EAN, UPC, QR etc.), it is very easy to use and is actively maintained (latest version is from April 8th 2013).

Sample code:

var writer = new BarcodeWriter
                {
                    Format = BarcodeFormat.EAN_13, 
                    Options = new EncodingOptions { Height = 150, Width = 300 }
                };
            
var content = "5901234123457";

var imageFileName = "barcode.png";
var imageFilePath = Server.MapPath(imageFileName);
var image = writer.Write(content);
image.Save(imageFilePath, ImageFormat.Png);

You can also save the barcode as SVG if you need it to be scalable.