How to Generate Data Matrix in ASP.NET Web Server?

1. Publish your ASP.NET web site to IIS.
2. Copy "PQScan.BarcodeCreator.dll" file from downloaded barcode generator package to your IIS bin folder.
3. Copy "BarcodeWebHandler.ashx" file from downloaded barcode generator package to your IIS.
4. Create an empty html, and add the image code <img src="http://localhost:port/BarcodeWebHandler.ashx?BarType=DataMatrix&Data=123456789&Width=300&Height=300&DataMatrixShape=Auto"/> to the page.
5. Viewing html page on web browser, you will see the Data Matrix barcode created on the page.

Note: Please make sure the "BarcodeWebHandler.ashx" file is copied to the folder where the web pages are generating barcodes, otherwise the Data Matrix image will not appear.

To generate Data Matrix barcode from pqScan Barcode Creator WebForms control, you need do some work like this:

1. Unzip the downloaded Data Matrix barcode generator package, copy the "PQScan.BarcodeCreator.dll" to your web application's bin folder.
2. Add ASP.NET Barcode Creator Web Control to Visual Studio Toolbox.
3. Drag and drop BarcodeWebControl to your ASPX web forms.
4. Copy "BarcodeWebHandler.ashx" file to the direction where the web page would draw Data Matrix images.
5. Run the web application to view the Data Matrix image generated.
6. To customize the Data Matrix image, you can make changes in the "properties" pane or in the run-time code. Additional, changing Data Matrix web image control's src property by java script is also support.

In this example, we will give a guide to introduce you how to generate Data Matrix using C# in ASP.NET project.

using System;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using PQScan.BarcodeCreator;

namespace DataMatrixGeneratorInWeb
{
    public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Barcode datamatrix = new Barcode();

            datamatrix.Data = "pqScan123456789";
            datamatrix.BarType = BarCodeType.DataMatrix;
            datamatrix.Width = 300;
            datamatrix.Height = 300;
            datamatrix.DataMatrixShape = SymbolShapeMode.Square;

            datamatrix.CreateBarcode("datamatrix-webforms.bmp");
        }
    }
}