Debug Your Application

Because debugging and writing debug information to a log file is time consuming and expensive, Barcode Xpress provides the ability to control the level of information written to the debug log as well as the ability to turn off writing to a file completely.

Use the objects below to adjust the settings of your debugging, event handling, memory, and IDispose for optimal performance.

Control Debugging Information

Debug - Turns on or off the ability to write to the debug log file.
DebugLogFile - A filename which stores the debug log information.

ErrorLevel - Controls the amount of information that is written to the debug log file.

When ErrorLevel is set to Detailed, BarcodeXpress will log most of your calls to the component including the occurrence of exceptions, the result of most major operations and the operation of each event it raises.

Troubleshooting

Color or Grayscale Images - Barcode Xpress works with 1, 8, or 24-bit images. To convert other formats, use the ColorDepth or other methods with the included ImagXpress component.
Not able to read Barcodes when you know they exist due to poor image quality - There is no set process for cleanup of images. What may work on one image for clean-up, may not work on another. The ScanFix component, which is sold separately, can perform many different cleanup operations such as SmoothandZoom, Dilation, and Erosion which all assist in recognition of the barcodes, but there is no set order in which to perform these operations that will ensure each image barcode will be detected. All ScanFix Xpress (sold separately) cleanup operations are very fast, so an option to consider is performing multiple operations and then retrying recognition. Some image cleanup operations can also be found in ImagXpress.
Issues with barcode recognition - Some reasons why your barcode may not be detected could be due to poor resolution, resolutions of horizontal and vertical are not the same, the barcode wasn't made correctly according to the standard, bad scanning quality, bad image quality (see bullet two above), or the barcode is a type that Barcode Xpress doesn't read. Attempt to solve any image quality, resolution, and scanning properties using the included ImagXpress component.
Confidence values - Confidence values are programmed into the component. Barcode Xpress is conservative on confidence values compared to other competitive components so the developer understands when a barcode may not be 100% accurate. This ensures the barcode recognized is producing accurate data.

Event Handling

Barcode Xpress may throw a number of exceptions if it comes across errors or events that need to be handled by the application. These exceptions are tabulated below:

Exception	Description
ColumnCountException	Thrown if the input columns are outside the valid range for a 2D barcode type to be created.
ErrorCorrectionLevelTooHighException	Thrown if the input barcode data will fit in the 2D barcode but the error correction words will not fit because there are more error words than will fit in the remainder of the symbol.
ImageNotAvailableException	Thrown whenever there is no image available for an operation that requires one.
InsufficientHeightException	Thrown if the Height value set by the user is smaller than the required height of the barcode.
InsufficientWidthException	Thrown if the barcode Width value set by the user is smaller than the required width of the barcode.
InternalErrorException	Thrown whenever an unhandled exception is encountered.
InvalidAreaException	Thrown whenever an invalid area is used in barcode recognition.
InvalidBarcodeValueException	Thrown if the BarcodeValue is NULL, or if the barcode value set is invalid for the current barcode type.
InvalidBitmapException	Thrown if an invalid bitmap is detected.
InvalidErrorCorrectionLevelException	Thrown if the error correction level is not in the valid range for the 2D barcode type.
InvalidIndexException	Thrown if a request for results is outside the valid range.
InvalidLicenseException	Thrown if an invalid license is detected.
InvalidParameterException	Thrown if a parameter is invalid.
LargeDataSizeException	Thrown if the barcode data will not fit in the current symbols rows and columns.
OutOfMemoryException	Thrown if the creation of the bitmap to draw the barcode fails.
ParameterOutOfRangeException	Thrown if a parameter is out of range.
PDF417EncodingException	Thrown if an internal exception has occurred while trying to encode the barcode data.
RowCountException	Thrown if the input columns are outside the valid range of the 2D barcode type to be created.
StringParseErrorException	Thrown if a parse error is encountered in the ReadFromStream method.
TimeoutErrorException	This exception is not used.
UnableCreateUPCEException	Thrown if the function to expand a UPC-E value to a UPC-A value fails.
UnableReadBarcodeTypeException	Thrown if an unsupported barcode type is detected.
UnsupportedBarcodeTypeException	Thrown if an unsupported barcode type is detected.
UnableReadBitmapException	Thrown when a bitmap cannot be read, possibly because of an invalid bitmap handle.

Error Codes

Listed below is a cross reference of error codes and their corresponding descriptions.

Error Codes	Error	Description
9000	OutOfMemoryException	There is not enough memory to continue the operation.
9001	InvalidParameterException	Invalid parameter.
9002	ParameterOutOfRangeException	Parameter out of range.
9003	InvalidBitmapException	Invalid bitmap.
9004	UnableReadbitmapException	Unable to read bitmap.
9005	UnsupportBarcodeTypeException	Unsupported barcode type.
9006	InvalidIndexException	Invalid index.
9007	InvalidBarcodeValueException	Invalid barcode value set.
9008	InsufficientWidthException	Insufficient barcode width.
9009	InsufficientHeightException	Insufficient barcode height.
9010	UnableCreateUPCEException	Unable to create UPC-E Barcode.
9011	InvalidLicenseException	Invalid license.
9012	TimeoutErrorException	Timeout Error.
9013	ImageNotAvailableException	Image not available.
9014	InternalErrorException	Internal error.
9015	InvalidAreaException	Area is outside required range.
9100	PDF417EncodingException	PDF417 encoding error.
9101	RowCountException	Invalid row count for the barcode type.
9102	ColumnCountException	Invalid column count for the barcode type.
9104	LargeDataSizeException	Barcode data too large for the barcode symbol size.
9105	InvalidErrorCorrectionLevelException	Error correction level is invalid.
9106	ErrorCorrectionLevelTooHighException	Error correction level is too high, will not fit in barcode symbol with the data.
9200	StreamParseException	An error was encountered while parsing the stream data in the ReadFromStream method.

If you receive a System.PlatformNotSupportedException on a 64-bit operating system, check that the application has been compiled for the x86 platform.