The Bar Code ActiveX Control has all the features necessary to easily add professional quality barcodes to any Windows application including Web pages, database reporting and labeling, product packaging, document tracking, postal bar coding and special purpose bar code labeling applications.

It is an extremely easy and powerful tool that will work flawlessly with any Windows application that supports ActiveX technology including Visual Basic, C++, Internet Explorer Web pages, Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, etc.

Simply insert the Bar Code ActiveX Control into your application and specify a few properties in the properties window shown below and your desired bar codes will be generated automatically.

The TAL Bar Code ActiveX Control also supports data binding so you can bind fields in a database to the Control and generate barcodes for each data record automatically. The data binding capabilities makes it trivially easy to produce reports and labels containing bar codes using any database that supports ActiveX technology including Microsoft Access or Visual Basic.

The control is also fully scriptable in Internet Explorer using VB Script or JavaScript making it extremely easy to create web pages containing high quality, high resolution bar codes.

* NEW * - The TAL BarCode ActiveX Plus version now supports the ability to generate bar codes as GIF, PNG and JPEG files allowing you to easily create server side bar codes on a Windows based web server. Use CGI/Perl or Active Server Page (ASP) code to produce high quality server side bar codes that will display and print perfectly from any web browser running under any platform including Windows, UNIX/Linux, Mac, etc. Sample CGI/Perl and ASP code is included with the TAL BarCode ActiveX control to demonstrate how to implement server side bar codes on your own web sites. For a full demonstration of a server side bar code generator, please visit

The BarCode DLLs are the most versatile barcode Programming Tools available for Microsoft Windows. TAL BarCode DLLs have all the features necessary to help programmers add professional quality barcodes to their Windows applications.

TAL BarCode DLLs create completely device independent, high resolution, Windows MetaFile (.WMF) graphics. WMF graphics are vector graphics that will print to the highest resolution of any printer. You do not need to know the dot resolution of the printer in advance.

Unlike bitmaps, MetaFiles will not distort in size depending on the resolution of the output device. In addition, you can view the graphic on screen WYSIWYG. MetaFiles are extremely small in size and therefore print much faster than any other type of graphic. They also require much less memory or disk storage space.

MetaFiles are the native graphic format for Windows and are fully supported by VB, C/C++, Access, Excel, Word, and all other popular programmable applications.

Along with the BarCode DLLs a sample Access database and VB and C/C++ source code are provided to assist the programmer and non-programmer alike to quickly and easily develop barcoding applications.

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