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General information about evaluation version of VintaSoft Barcode .NET SDK

The evaluation version of VintaSoft Barcode .NET SDK allows you to test the SDK functionality and so check if it suits your requrements.

The evaluation version allows to develop .NET applications for test purposes only.

The evaluation version does NOT allow to use the developed test applications in production or for commercial purposes.

The evaluation version works during 30 days of evaluation period. For activating the evaluation period you should request the evaluation license.

The evaluation version has several minor limitations of use listed below.

It's prohibited to rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, crack, otherwise reverse engineer the evaluation version.

You need to embed the evaluation license into source codes of your web application.

Request C#/VB.NET code to embed the evaluation license into source codes of your ASP.NET application

If you need C#/VB.NET code to embed the evaluation license into source codes of your ASP.NET application, you need to do the following steps:

1. Go to VintaSoft User Portal at https://myaccount.vintasoft.com/user/getEvaluationLicense.
2. Enter your email, choose necessary product. Enter your name if you request the evaluation license first time. Check necessary checkboxes.
3. Click the "Send the evaluation license to my email" button and email message with information about the evaluation license will be sent to your email.

Limitations of evaluation version of VintaSoft Barcode .NET SDK

Evaluation version has the following limitations:

1. Evaluation version of barcode reader replaces barcode value by text string "*DEMO*" for IntelligentMail, RSS 14, RSS 14 Stacked,RSS Limited, RSS Expanded, RSS Expanded Stacked, MicroPDF417 CC-A (GS1 2D component), MicroPDF417 CC-B (GS1 2D component), PDF417 CC-C (GS1 2D component), GS1-128 CC-A, GS1-128 CC-B and GS1-128 CC-C barcode types.
   
   Use on-line VintaSoft Barcode Advanced Demo if you want to test this disabled functionality.
   
   
2. Evaluation version of barcode reader cannot recognize the following barcode types: PathCode, GS1 DataBar family.
   
   Use on-line VintaSoft Barcode Advanced Demo if you want to test this disabled functionality.
   
   
3. Evaluation version of barcode writer cannot generate the following barcode types: QR XFACompressed, HIBC LIC QR Code, Swiss QR Code, PathCode, GS1 DataBar family.
   
   Use on-line VintaSoft Barcode Advanced Demo if you want to test this disabled functionality.
   
   
4. Evaluation version of barcode writer adds the "*Demo*" watermark to any generated barcode.
   
   Use on-line VintaSoft Barcode Advanced Demo if you want to test this disabled functionality.
   
   
5. Evaluation version of barcode writer adds the "*Demo*" text to a value of generated 2D barcode.
   
   Use on-line VintaSoft Barcode Advanced Demo if you want to test this disabled functionality.
   
   
6. Evaluation version of SDK can extract image-resources only from the first page of multipage PDF document.
   
   
7. In evaluation version of SDK the barcode recognition speed slows down approximately by 1 ms for every 1000 barcode recognition operations.
   In evaluation version of SDK the barcode recognition algorithm leaks 2 KB of memory for every 1 barcode recognition operations.

Can I test generation and recognition of GS1 DataMatrix barcode using evaluation version?

Yes, please do the following steps:

• Create GS1 value. Please skip this steps if you already have GS1 value.
  • Open on-line VintaSoft Barcode Advanced Demo
  • Select "Barcode" tab.
  • Click "GS1 value editor" button, "GS1 value editor" dialog will appear, create the GS1 barcode value using dialog UI, click "Copy GS1 printable value to the clipboard" button and GS1 value will be copied to the system clipboard, click "Close" button, dialog wil be closed.
• Generate GS1 DataMatrix barcode.
  • Open on-line VintaSoft Barcode Advanced Demo
  • Select "Barcode" tab.
  • Click "Barcode writer settings" button, "Barcode writer settings" dialog will appear, set the barcode dimension to "2D", set the "BarcodeSubset" field to "GS1DataMatrix", set the "Value" field to your GS1 value, click "Ok" button, dialog wil be closed.
  • Click "Write barcode" button, barcode image will be generated and added to the image viewer.
  • Select generated image in image viewer, select the "File" tab, click "Download file" button and download generated image with barcode.
• Recognize GS1 DataMatrix barcode.
  • Open on-line VintaSoft Barcode Advanced Demo
  • Open image with GS1 DataMatrix barcode.
  • Select "Barcode" tab, click "Barcode reader settings" button, the "Barcode reader settings" dialog will appear, select "GS1DataMatrix" item in "Barcode2DSubsets" list, click "Ok" button, dialog wil be closed.
  • Click "Read barcodes", barcode will be recognized and highlighted on image.
  • Click the highlighted barcode on image, dialog will barcode information will appear.