Windows Phone 7 BarCode scan library or capability? [closed]

Answer 1

I wrote the PhraseMeme Scanner app that was mentioned, and yes it is based on the ZXing library. The app has now been released to the marketplace, and more information can be found at http://PhraseMeme.com/Scanner

I also uploaded the Silverlight port of the ZXing library to http://silverlightzxing.codeplex.com/. The project includes sample code for using the library as well as a BarcodePhotoChooser XAML/CS page for displaying and choosing sample barcodes since the emulator does not support the camera. I plan on submitting bug fixes and additional code to this project so that others can also use it in their Windows Phone 7 or Silverlight applications.

Answer 2

The WP7 SDK does not have the capability built in to read a barcode from an image.

The SDK does have the capability to take the picture though, using CameraCaptureTask.. there is a sample for doing this here.

How to: Use Launchers for Windows Phone

Also, you could take a look at .net projects on the net that offer the capability to read a barcode form a supplied image. For example..

Reading Barcodes from an Image

Microsoft probably won't develop this capability since it can readily be provided by 3rd Party SDKs and there is fairly health barcode expertise out there in the community already.

Answer 3

There are several applications in the marketplace having this feature, maybe one of them list the component used to read the barcodes: http://wp7applist.com/search/?q=barcode

There's a C# version of ZXing from Google compatible with Windows Phone 7: http://code.google.com/p/zxing/source/browse/trunk#trunk/csharp

http://sviluppomobile.blogspot.com/2010/08/wp7-zxing-barcode.html

Update this app seems to use ZXing and will release their code: http://www.phrasememe.com/scanner/