How to Generate EAN-8 in ASP.NET Web Server?

Like printing EAN-8 image on .NET Windows Forms, developers can createEAN-8 in ASP.NET Web Forms. Here we will introduce you how to generateEAN-8 barcode in web page using C# code.

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

namespace EAN8GeneratorInWeb
{
    public partial class WebForm1 : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            Barcode ean8 = new Barcode();

            ean8.Data = "1234567";
            ean8.BarType = BarCodeType.EAN8;
            ean8.Width = 100;
            ean8.Height = 100;
            ean8.ShowText = true;

            ean8.CreateBarcode("ean8-webforms.jpeg");
        }
    }
}

Using pqScan Barcode Creator WebForms control to generate EAN-8 image, follow these steps:

1. Unzip the downloaded EAN-8 barcode generator package to your web project's bin folder.
2. Add ASP.NET Barcode Creator Web Control to Visual Studio Toolbox.
3. Drag and drop BarcodeWebControl item to your ASPX web page.
4. Copy "BarcodeWebHandler.ashx" file to the path where the web forms are drawingEAN-8 images.
5. Run the web application, and anEAN-8 barcode image will rendered on the page.
6. To specify the EAN-8 settings, you can make changes in the "properties" pane or in the run-time code.

1. Download barcode generator package and unzip it.
2. Publish you web site in IIS.
3. Copy "BarcodeWebHandler.ashx" file from downloaded barcode generator package to your IIS root path.
4. Copy "PQScan.BarcodeCreator.dll" to your IIS bin folder.
5. Create an empty html in IIS root path, insert image tag like this:<img src="http://localhost:port/BarcodeWebHandler.ashx?BarType=EAN8&Data=1234567&Width=100&Height=100&ShowText=True"/>.
6. Viewing html page on web browser, you will find the EAN-8 barcode generated on the page.

Note: If you encodeEAN-8 barcode image using ASP.NET Barcode Creator Control in web application, both in Visual studio and IIS, you can customize the barcode image's srcproperty to draw a new EAN-8 image by JavaScript, which is not refresh whole web page.