Using ABarcode ActiveX in Crystal Reports with Visual Studio .NET

This example assumes you already opened a new project and gone through the preliminary steps.

• Select Add New Item from the Project menu.
• Click the Crystal Report icon and press the Add button.
  
• Click OK in the first window of the Crystal Reports wizard.
  
• Choose the Products table from the previously created dataset.
  
• Drag & drop the ProductId, ProductName, and Barcode fields from the Field Explorer tab to the Detail section of the report.
  
• Right-click the Barcode item in the report design, select Format Object in the context menu, and check Can Grow.
  Press OK then save and close the report.
  
• Add a new form to the project, and drag & drop a CrystalReportViewer control into it.
  
• Drag & drop the ABarcodeX.Barcode control to the form, then set its Visible property to False.
  
• Double click the title bar on the form design to open the code window, then insert the code below in the Load event:

  Visual Basic .NET

      Public Class Form2
          Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
          Handles MyBase.Load
              Dim ta As New DataSet1TableAdapters.ProductsTableAdapter
              Dim dt As New DataSet1.ProductsDataTable
              ta.Fill(dt)
              For Each row As DataSet1.ProductsRow In dt.Rows
                  Me.AxBarcode1.ValueToEncode = row.ProductID.ToString
                  row.Barcode = ImageToByte(Me.AxBarcode1.GetWMF)
              Next
              Dim report As New CrystalReport1
              report.SetDataSource(CType(dt, DataTable))
              Me.CrystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = report
          End Sub
      End Class

  Visual C# .NET

      private void Form2_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
          DataSet1TableAdapters.ProductsTableAdapter ta = 
              new DataSet1TableAdapters.ProductsTableAdapter();
          DataSet1.ProductsDataTable dt = new DataSet1.ProductsDataTable();
          ta.Fill(dt);
          Class1 cls1 = new Class1();
          foreach (DataSet1.ProductsRow row in dt.Rows)
          {
              this.axBarcode1.ValueToEncode = row.ProductID.ToString();
              row.Barcode = cls1.imageToByte(this.axBarcode1.GetWMF());
          }
          CrystalReport1 report = new CrystalReport1();
          report.SetDataSource((DataTable)dt);
          this.crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = report;
      }

• Set the new form as the Startup form in the Project properties (VB) or code it to open in Program.cs (C#), then run the application.
  The form will show the report with barcodes.
  
• The CrystalReportViewer control allows you to export the report in different formats (PDF, Word, Excel and others), in which case the barcodes are also shown:
  
  Crystal Reports report with barcodes export to PDF
  
  
  Crystal Reports report with barcodes export to Excel
  
  
  Crystal Reports report with barcodes export to Word
  

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