Barcode Overview

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Nevron Barcode for Reporting Services is an advanced report item for all versions of Microsoft Reporting Services. It is designed to provide report authors with an easy and powerful way to create linear and matrix barcodes that are tightly integrated with your data. Following are some of the most important features of this report item:

Major Features

Support for Multiple Barcode areas - unlimited number of barcode areas are supported. Each barcode area can display either a linear or matrix barcode.

Support for Multiple Titles - unlimited number of titles are supported. Titles can be manually positioned or docked to barcode and barcode plot area.

Linear Barcodes - the report item can display 28 linear barcode symbologies, including: Codabar, Code 11, Code 39, Code 39 Extended, Code 93, Code 128, Code 128A, Code 128B, Code 128C, EAN8,
EAN 13, FIM, Interleaved 2 of 5, ISBN, ITF14, JAN13, MSI 2Mod10, MSI Mod10, MSI Mod11, MSI Mod11 Mod10, Pharmacode, PostNet, Standard 2 of 5, Telepen, UPCA, UPCE, UPC Supplemental 2Digit and UPC Supplemental 5Digit.

Matrix Barcode - support for Data Matrix, QR Code and PDF417.

Correction Level - support for Low, Medium, Quartile and High correction levels

Scaling Modes - support for fit and custom scale scaling modes.

Pixel Snapping - integrated pixel snapping that displays the barcode in such a zoom level that avoids antialiasing and displays barcode symbols at exact pixels.

Code Embedding - allows you to modify every aspect of the barcode appearance using C# code.

Unique Features

Code Embedding - the only barcode report item that allows the execution of custom C# code in runtime.

XML Formatted Texts - this feature is applicable to all elements which display text. It allows you to mix fonts, mix bold, italic underline formatting and many other advanced features like different fill styles, shadows, image filters etc. - all inside a single label, title etc. XML formatted texts use a format similar to HTML, but with many more advanced options.

Multithreaded UI - the user interface in design time is multithreaded. This allows for very quick editing of the component, regardless of the preview complexity.