how to scan VIN barcode in Visual studio 2010

Question

Iv been looking all over the internet for an add-on or program to add to visual studio nothing.

My Question is is there any way at all to have a VIN barcode scanner in Visual studio 2010. Any sample code or tutorial will help greatly.

Answer 1

VIN numbers are in the Code39 barcode format. So you really just need hardware capable of scanning a barcode. A cheap USB barcode scanner is about 20USD.

Then in VS, you just create a simple form with a text box. When the text box has focus, scanning a bar code will result in the text represented by that bar code (in your case a VIN) to appear in the text box just as if you had typed it in.

Also, if you want to go the other direction and generate bar codes in Code39, MSDN has a nice sample in C# here.