The software generates barcode images for Reporting Services. 1D - 2D Barcode Symbologies

Neodynamic Barcode Professional for Reporting Services is the most advanced .NET Component (.NET DLL Class Library) which lets you to easily add barcoding features to your SQL Server Reporting Services report solutions.

Barcode Professional supports most popular Linear (1D), Postal & 2D Symbologies/Standards all-in-one solution including Code 39, Code 128, EAN 13 & UPC, Postal (USPS, British Royal Mail, Australia Post, DHL, etc.), Data Matrix, QR Code, PDF 417 and many more barcode standards.

Barcode Professional is easy to use; renders high quality barcode images on-the-fly in JPG/JPEG, PNG, GIF and BMP formats supporting image rotation, DPI settings for high image resolution requirements; does not require any special or complex configurations; and supports all Microsoft Report Definition Language scenarios such as SQL Report Server projects (RDL) as well as Visual Studio 2005 ReportViewer Local Reports (RDLC).

In addition, when exporting your reports from Reporting Services to other file formats such as Adobe PDF, Excel - xls files, TIFF, and Web archive; the barcode images generated by Barcode Professional are automatically maintained in each of those file formats.

When developing Report Server Projects i.e. using a SQL Server Report Server 2005; Barcode Professional becomes a fully-integrated Report Item control that you can drag & drop from the Visual Studio Toolbox onto your RDL reports (Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio included with Microsoft SQL Server 2005 are the only development tools supported).

Here are some key features of "MS SQL Reporting Services Barcode NET":

Barcoding
· Barcode image generation and printing support for 45 Linear/1D & Postal Barcode Simbologies
· Barcode image generation and printing support for 5 2D Barcode Symbologies
· Automatically computes checksum or check digits for all Symbologies
· Automatically validates the value to encode

.NET Technology
· Written entirely in managed C#
· Strong named assemblies for Reporting Services 2000 & 2005
· GIF, BMP, PNG & JPEG/JPG barcode image formats support
· Monochrome (Black and White 1 bit per pixel) barcode image generation support
· DPI support
· Barcode rotation support (0, 90, 180, 270 degrees)

Reporting scenarios
· SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services support
· SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services support
· Visual Studio 2005 ReportViewer Local Reports (RDLC) support

Design-time Development Support
· Full WYSIWYG design-time support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Development Studio
· Barcode Builder design-time editor support for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Development Studio

Solution Projects Support
· Visual Studio 2005 & SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services – Report Server Project (design-time and runtime support)
· Visual Studio .NET 2003 & SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services – Report Server Project (runtime support)
· Visual Studio 2005 ReportViewer Local Reports (RDLC) (runtime support)

Requirements:

· For developing SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services reports:
· · Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 with its latest service pack.
· · Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services with its latest service pack.
· · Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 with its latest service pack.
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· For developing SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services reports:
· · Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 with its latest service pack.
· · Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with its latest service pack.
· · Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services with its latest service pack.
· · Visual Studio 2005 or SQL Server Business Intelligence Development Studio
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· For developing Visual Studio 2005 Local Reports RDLC (ReportViewer controls):
· · Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 with its latest service pack.
· · Visual Studio 2005 ReportViewer controls.


Limitations:

· A TRIAL legend will appear on the generated barcode image.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· New! Barcode Symbologies/Standards added including Aztec Code 2D, Compact PDF417, Macro PDF417, Micro PDF417, VICS Bill of Lading (BOL), VICS SCAC PRO, Italian Post 25, ISBT 128, HIBC LIC 39, HIBC LIC 128, HIBC PAS 39, HIBC PAS 128, USPS Intelligent Mail (formerly OneCode)
· New! Added Barcode alignment feature which lets you to align the whole barcode image on the drawing surface.
· Improved! PDF417 Barcode by adding Numeric Compaction Mode and Auto Compaction Mode which optimizes the total codewords to be encoded by switching between all PDF417 modes. Added Aspect Ratio setting.
· Improved! Pharmacode Barcode by adding validation for avoiding generation of non-legible Pharmacode values.
· Improved! Added support for DPI values greater than 96 with AutoSize feature enabled.
· Improved! Overall barcode generation performance.