Registering the control

Before an Active-X control may be used within a particular Windows installation it must be registered with the Windows System Registry. The Setup program that installs the product on your system provides automatic one-time registration. However, if you use the control on another system registration may NOT be automatic. Many container applications (Visual Basic, MS Office, etc.) offer facilities to register controls by displaying a dialog and browsing for the control's file – DLS2D4.DLL. As a last resort, the control may be registered manually be executing the following commands from within a command prompt:

To register the control

C:\path\regsvr32.exe C:\path\DLS2D4.DLL

Similarly the control may be un-registered using:

C:\path\regsvr32.exe C:\path\DLS2D4.DLL -u.

If the control is moved or upgraded it must be re-registered.

Once registered the control may be used within Visual Basic 6 (and other environments). dBarcode-2D Active DLL may be included on Visual Basic's Toolbar by checking the

Active 2D Barcode Control

entry in the Custom Controls dialog accessible on the Tools menu. The control then appears as an icon on the toolbar.

 

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