Linear (1D), Postal & 2D Barcode Symbologies support
Barcode Professional supports most popular Linear (1D), Postal & 2D Symbologies/Standards all-in-one solution. View the complete list of Linear (1D), Postal & 2D Barcode Symbologies currently supported.
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Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 & Reporting Services 2005 / 2008 Design-time support
Barcode Professional provides an impressive design-time experience through out its exclusive Property Editor a.k.a. Barcode Builder. This feature is only available when you use Barcode Professional with Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 or SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio (shipped with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 / 2008)
to design or create Report Server Projects that targets SQL Server 2005 / 2008 Report Servers only.
When you develop Report Server Projects (SQL Server 2005 / 2008 Reporting Services) you’re able to drag & drop Barcode Professional from the Visual Studio 2005 / 2008
Toolbox (or SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio) onto your reports. Barcode Professional when it’s used with Reporting Services 2005 / 2008 (in Remote/Server Mode), it becomes in a fully-integrated Barcode Report Item control available from the Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 Toolbox.
Step by Step Guide about Barcode Professional and Reporting Services 2005 / 2008:
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Neodynamic Barcode Builder Design-time support
When working with Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 or SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio designing Report Server Projects (SQL Server 2005 / 2008 Reporting Services), you gain access to an additional design-time feature called Barcode Builder. It allows you to easily configure the barcode image you want to generate and provides you with most of the information you need in order to get your barcode image working.
Barcode Builder lets you to specify what Barcode Symbology you want to use and the specific settings for each of them. At any time you’ll get instant preview of the barcode image in the bottom zone. In addition, the barcode preview feature will allow you to print the barcode image as well as to save it on disk!
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Reporting Services Configuration Tool
In order you can use any .NET Custom Report Item/Assembly in either, SSRS 2000,
SSRS 2005 or SSRS 2008, you will need to do some modifications into a set of configuration files of SQL Server Reporting Services. Neodynamic Barcode Professional for Reporting Services includes a Configuration Tool that automatically will do all these tasks for you with a few clicks.
The Configuration Tool is immediately launched as the last step in the installation process, but you can run it any time.
This utility not only allows you to configure Barcode Professional on your development environment, but you can use it in deployment scenario as well.
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All Reporting Services Export File Formats supported
Reporting Services 2000, 2005 and 2008 versions allow you to export your reports to a variety of different file formats such as Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Excel (XLS), Microsoft Word (DOC), Tagged Image File Format (TIFF), Web archive MIME HTML (MHTML), and so on. On the other hand, Visual Studio 2005 / 2008
ReportViewer controls only allow you to export your reports to PDF or Excel. Barcode Professional was developed to support all export file formats independently of the Development Tool and Reporting Services version you utilize.
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Reporting Services 2000 Report Projects support
Barcode Professional was the first real .NET barcode solution for Reporting Services 2000. To develop report server project you use Visual Studio .NET 2003 and as you know the first version of Reporting Services does not allow third-party report items as Reporting Services 2005 does. Barcode Professional addresses this limitation exposing a rich object model encapsulated into a .NET assembly that you can use to generated barcode images into your Reporting Services 2000 reports project. The way you’ll utilize Barcode Professional in this case will be instantiating it into the Code section of your reports. Learn more about Barcode Professional and Reporting Services 2000 referring to the following guides.
Step by Step Guide about Barcode Professional and Reporting Services 2000:
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Visual Studio 2005/2008 ReportViewer Local Reports (RDLC) support
Visual Studio 2005/2008 includes a new set of report controls called ReportViewer which allow you to deliver RDL-based reports (a.k.a. Local Reports) with your .NET Applications. These kinds of reports are files with the RDLC extension and can be viewed in ASP.NET Web Pages or Windows Forms by using the aforementioned ReportViewer controls. There’re some reporting scenarios where you maybe need to include some barcode images into your local reports. Due to its flexible design, Barcode Professional lets you to easily add barcoding features to your reports based on RDLC format. Barcode rotation is also supported and barcode images are maintained when you export your report to PDF and MS Excel file formats.
Sadly, Visual Studio 2005/2008 does not allow dragging & dropping third-party reports items when you design reports in local mode. So, in order to use Barcode professional in this scenario, you’ll need to use it as a custom assembly instantiating it into the Code section of your reports.
Step by Step Guide about Barcode Professional and ReportViewer Local Reports (RDLC):
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