BarCodeWiz ActiveX Component Description:

BarCodeWiz ActiveX is a control / plug-in, which allows you to include bar code capabilities in any program supporting ActiveX technology. You can easily add bar codes into your Word document, Excel spreadsheet, Access report, or PowerPoint presentation.

If you are programmer implementing bar code capabilities in your application, you will save countless hours of programming by using BarCodeWiz ActiveX (and let's face it - time is money) . If you use Visual Basic, Visual C++ or Borland Delphi, you will be happy to find that all it takes is a few lines of code to print a bar code.

We have worked hard to make it the best tool on the market, and continue doing so. Please rest assured - by choosing BarCodeWiz you have made the right choice.


Easy to use in MS Access, Word, Excel, FoxPro, Visual Basic, Visual C++, Borland Delphi, and many other programs.
All popular barcode types - Code 39, Code 39 Extended, Code 128 A, B, C, and Auto, UCC / EAN 128, Interleaved 2 of 5, Standard 2 of 5, Code 93 (auto switch to extended mode), Code 11, Codabar, UPC A, UPC E, EAN 13, EAN 8, PostNet, Royal Mail
Ready for your own use examples in Word, Access, Excel, Visual Basic, Visual C++, VB.NET, C#, and Delphi
Allows for data binding. Create barcode labels based on your data tables.
Copy to Clipboard as a picture (metafile)
Save to disk as EMF, WMF, BMP, and GIF
Automatically calculates required and optional check digits
Adjustable Orientation (0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees)
Adjustable bar thickness and height
Bearer bars for better scanning accuracy
Adjustable Background and Foreground colors
Opaque / Transparent background
Allows the use of any installed fonts for human readable text and comment lines above and below the barcode.
Adjustable horizontal alignment for any text
Seven border types
Six quiet zone (margin space) sizes
Stretch human-readable barcode text to be equal to the width of the barcode
May be used as a DLL, allowing for dynamic creation of barcodes and printing in the background
No additional DLL files are required for redistribution.
Several events are available for easy integration with your programs - Click, DblClick, MouseDown, MouseMove, MouseUp



Seven reasons why you need BarCodeWiz Barcode ActiveX Control:

It's Easy! - Insert into your document, type the barcode into the Barcode field, and click Print.

Versatile - Use it in your favorite programs. Easily integrate with MS Office, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and other programs that take advantage of ActiveX technology. Includes most of the popular barcode types (see the list)

User Friendly - Made a mistake? No time to read the manual? No problem. BarCodeWiz walks you right through. For example, if you enter an invalid character, it will show you exactly which character it is.

High Performance - Do you need a lot of barcodes? BarCodeWiz can generate a million barcodes in about 20 seconds. If you distribute your own programs, you will be happy to know that only one file, barcodewiz.dll needs to be added to your program. And it's only 256kb (110kb compressed)!
BarCodeWiz was written entirely in ATL / C++ for maximum performance.

High Quality - Uses vector graphics for highest quality images. This is important with barcode scanners, which demand highly accurate images. It means no more scanning errors!

Error Proof - Takes care of the mundane details: start/stop characters, check digits, minimum dimensions, maximum characters, quiet zones, and more.

No Barcode Fonts! - BarCodeWiz barcode ActiveX draws barcodes as images, and does not require the purchase of any barcode fonts nor any additional software.



Supported Barcode Types:

Symbology Name Description
Code 39 Most commonly used non-retail symbology. Note that the leading and trailing asterisks (*) are added automatically if not supplied.
Characters allowed:
0-9; A-Z; -.$*/+%, and space
Code 39 Extended Allows all ASCII 128 characters to be encoded by using a double-character format. Most scanners will need to be switched to the extended mode in order to recognize this.
Code 128 A
Allows all ASCII values between 0 and 96. This includes special characters, such as tab or escape.
Code 128 B Allows all ASCII values between 32 and 127.
(Unlike Code 128 A, it allows the use of lower-case letters)
Code 128 C High density, numeric only
Code 128 Auto Automatically chooses the best Code 128 subset.
UCC EAN 128 Commonly used in hospital and logistics applications.
Interleaved 2 of 5 Hight density, numeric only symbology. Must have an even number of digits.
Standard 2 of 5 Numeric-only, low density. Commonly used in libraries, blood banks, and parcels.
Code 93 Superset of Code 39. If required, it switches to Code 93 Extended automatically.
Code 11 Uses numbers 0-9 and the dash symbol "-"
Codabar Numeric-only symbology. Each barcode, however, must start and end with the letters A,B,C or D.
UPC A Used in retail environments in North America
UPC E Shorter version of UPC-A.
Not all UPC-A numbers can be converted to UPC-E
EAN 13 Used in retail environments outside of North America.
EAN 8 Similar to EAN 13, but EAN 8 numbers are not derived from EAN 13 (as is the case with UPC).
PostNet Used by the United States Postal Service
RoyalMail Used by the UK Royal Mail