ByteScout Premium Suite – Visual Basic 6 – Draw barcode to form hdc with barcode sdk

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How to draw barcode to form hdc with barcode sdk in Visual Basic 6 using ByteScout Premium Suite

How to write a robust code in Visual Basic 6 to draw barcode to form hdc with barcode sdk with this step-by-step tutorial

The sample shows instructions and algorithm of how to draw barcode to form hdc with barcode sdk and how to make it run in your Visual Basic 6 application. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can draw barcode to form hdc with barcode sdk in Visual Basic 6.

The following code snippet for ByteScout Premium Suite works best when you need to quickly draw barcode to form hdc with barcode sdk in your Visual Basic 6 application. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the Visual Basic 6 code. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

Trial version of ByteScout Premium Suite is available for free. Source code samples are included to help you with your Visual Basic 6 app.

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Form1.frm

      VERSION 5.00
Begin VB.Form Form1 
   AutoRedraw      =   -1  'True
   Caption         =   "Form1"
   ClientHeight    =   4845
   ClientLeft      =   45
   ClientTop       =   435
   ClientWidth     =   9795
   LinkTopic       =   "Form1"
   ScaleHeight     =   4845
   ScaleWidth      =   9795
   StartUpPosition =   3  'Windows Default
End
Attribute VB_Name = "Form1"
Attribute VB_GlobalNameSpace = False
Attribute VB_Creatable = False
Attribute VB_PredeclaredId = True
Attribute VB_Exposed = False
Private Sub Form_Load()

 ' IMPORTANT NOTE for this sample: click on Form1 in the Design mode and set "AutoRedraw" property to True to make all drawings visible
 
 Set bc = CreateObject("Bytescout.BarCode.Barcode")


 ' set symbology type
 bc.Symbology = 1 ' 1 = Code39

 ' set value to encode
 bc.Value = "012345"
  
 ' draw code 39 barcode to the form at (0,0)
 bc.DrawHDC hDC, 0, 0
  
 ' now drawing 2D Aztec barcode
 
 ' set symbology type
 bc.Symbology = 17 ' 17 = Aztec
 ' set value to encode
 bc.Value = "012345"

' draw 2D Aztec barcode to the form at (0,200)
 bc.DrawHDC hDC, 0, 200

 Set bc = Nothing

End Sub

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