I am attempting to take a string and convert it into a code 128 barcode in vb.net. I am a novice programmer and was wondering what some people thought would be the best design practices for accomplishing this.
A simple google search has yielded a few seemingly free solutions to this. http://www.onbarcode.com/vb_net/code-128-generator.html for example
I could also attempt to do this myself, but I'm not sure the exact method of converting strings into barcodes. I am going to keep looking into this but if someone knew this off the top of their head already it could save me some time.
Thanks in advance
If you don't want to write any code for string conversion in barcode and don't want to buy an external component, you can use the ItextSharp library ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/itextsharp/ ) which is in my opinion the simplest way to achieve your goal. You can find several resources online and on stackoverflow too for itextsharp, mostly in c# but also vb.net.
for barcode generation vb.net code you can have a look here: http://professionalaspnet.com/archive/2008/11/09/A-Quick-and-Dirty-Bar-Code-Image-httpHandler.aspx