Drawing barcode in D365 F&O

Even QR Code usage becoming more popular in fields we still need barcodes.

Generating and printing barcodes with using fonts is the most common way in X++ but sometimes we might need another solutions.

Finance and Operations apps include access to hundreds of standard, business-ready fonts available for documents rendered by the cloud-hosted service.

You can get more info about supported fonts in Finance and Operations here.

I want to share how to draw barcode with using fonts in X++ and save it as a bitmap or a byte array.

Below code snippet uses Barcode class and encodes the barcode with barcode type which you want to create. I choose Code128.

var barcode = Barcode::construct(BarcodeType::Code128);
barcode.string(true,"TestBarcode128");
barcode.encode();

We have the encoded barcode string in barcode.barcodeStr().

Now I am creating a class named GenerateBarcode.

using System.Drawing;
using System.Drawing.Drawing2D;
using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Drawing.Text;
using System.IO;

public static class GenerateBarcode
{

}

For getting byte array of the barcode, I am adding below method.

public static System.Byte[] getByteArray(str _barcode, 
str _barcodeFont, int _fontSize, int _width, int _height)
{
    System.Byte[] imageBytes;
    var font  = new Font(_barcodeFont, _fontSize);
    var rectF = new RectangleF(0, 0, _width, _height);
    var image = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(_width, _height);

    using (System.Drawing.Graphics graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics::FromImage(image))
    {
        graphics.InterpolationMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode::HighQualityBicubic;
        graphics.TextRenderingHint = System.Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint::ClearTypeGridFit;
        graphics.PixelOffsetMode   = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.PixelOffsetMode::HighQuality;

        var strFormat           = System.Drawing.StringFormat::GenericTypographic;
        strFormat.Alignment     = System.Drawing.StringAlignment::Center;
        strFormat.LineAlignment = System.Drawing.StringAlignment::Center;

        var blackBrush = new SolidBrush(System.Drawing.Color::Black);
        var whiteBrush = new SolidBrush(System.Drawing.Color::White);

        graphics.FillRectangle(whiteBrush, rectF);
        graphics.DrawString(_barcode, font, blackBrush, rectF, strFormat);
        graphics.Flush();
    }

    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        image.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat::Png);
        imageBytes = ms.ToArray();
    }

    return imageBytes;
}

For getting bitmap I'm adding this one

public static Bitmap getImage(str _barcode, 
str _barcodeFont, int _fontSize, int _width, int _height)
{        
    var font  = new Font(_barcodeFont, _fontSize);
    var rectF = new RectangleF(0, 0, _width, _height);
    var image = new System.Drawing.Bitmap(_width, _height);

    using (System.Drawing.Graphics graphics = System.Drawing.Graphics::FromImage(image))
    {
        graphics.InterpolationMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.InterpolationMode::HighQualityBicubic;
        graphics.TextRenderingHint = System.Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint::ClearTypeGridFit;
        graphics.PixelOffsetMode   = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.PixelOffsetMode::HighQuality;

        var strFormat           = System.Drawing.StringFormat::GenericTypographic;
        strFormat.Alignment     = System.Drawing.StringAlignment::Center;
        strFormat.LineAlignment = System.Drawing.StringAlignment::Center;

        var blackBrush = new SolidBrush(System.Drawing.Color::Black);
        var whiteBrush = new SolidBrush(System.Drawing.Color::White);

        graphics.FillRectangle(whiteBrush, rectF);
        graphics.DrawString(_barcode, font, blackBrush, rectF, strFormat);
        graphics.Flush();
    }
        
    using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
    {
        image.Save(ms, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat::Png); 
    }

    return image;
}

Finally I can use the class in my business logic like that.

var barcode = Barcode::construct(BarcodeType::Code128);
barcode.string(true,"TestBarcode128");
barcode.encode();
        
var barcodeImageByteArray = GenerateBarcode::getByteArray(barcode.barcodeStr(),
"BC C128 HD Narrow",//Barcode Font
75,//Barcode Font Size
200,//Barcode Width
100//Barcode Height
);

var barcodeImage          = GenerateBarcode::getImage(barcode.barcodeStr(),
"BC C128 HD Narrow",//Barcode Font
75,//Barcode Font Size
200,//Barcode Width
100//Barcode Height
);