Using ABarcode ActiveX in RDLC 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, then click the Report icon and press the Add button.
  
• Insert a Table control from the Toolbox. Drag & drop an Image control to the report; this one will show the barcode.
  
  Then drag & drop the ProductID, ProductName and any other column from the Datasources toolbox.
  
• Adjust these properties for the Image column:

      - MIMEType: image/png
      - Source:   Database
      - Value:    =Fields!Barcode.Value

  
  then Save the report.
  
  
• Add a new form to the project, insert a ReportViewer control into it, and select the report just created in the previous step.
  
• Drop an ABarcodeX.Barcode control into the form, then set its Visible property to False.
  
• Double click the form's title bar to open the code window, then insert the following code to the Load event procedure:

  Visual Basic .NET

      Public Class Form3
          Private Sub Form3_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) _
          Handles MyBase.Load
              Me.ProductsTableAdapter.Fill(Me.DataSet1.Products)
              For Each row As DataSet1.ProductsRow In Me.DataSet1.Products.Rows
                  Me.AxBarcode1.ValueToEncode = row.ProductID.ToString
                  row.Barcode = ImageToByte(Me.AxBarcode1.GetWMF)
              Next
              Me.ReportViewer1.RefreshReport()
          End Sub
      End Class

  Visual C# .NET

      private void Form3_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
      {
          this.ProductsTableAdapter.Fill(this.DataSet1.Products);
          Class1 cls1 = new Class1();
          foreach (DataSet1.ProductsRow row in this.DataSet1.Products.Rows)
          {
              this.axBarcode1.ValueToEncode = row.ProductID.ToString();
              row.Barcode = cls1.imageToByte(this.axBarcode1.GetWMF());
          }
          this.reportViewer1.RefreshReport();
      }
              

• 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 ReportViewer allows you to export reports in different formats, in which case barcodes are also shown:
  

Using ABarcode ActiveX in Windows Forms

Using ABarcode ActiveX in Crystal Reports

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