How to Upgrade to Latest Version

From version 8.x

• You need to replace the old assembly files with the ones in the latest version. Download the latest version here.

• Go to Customer Portal to get your license key.

• Update your code to set the license

  char errorBuf[512];
  DBR_InitLicense("YOUR-LICENSE-KEY", errorBuf, 512);
  void* dbr = DBR_GetInstance();
  if(dbr != NULL)
  {
      // Add your code here to call decoding method, process barcode results and so on
      // ...
      DBR_RecycleInstance(dbr);
  }
  

Note: The following license activation related functions have been deprecated, they still work in this version but could be removed in version 10.0. We recommend you to use DBR_InitLicense to set the license.

• DBR_InitLicenseFromDLS
• DBR_InitLicenseFromServer
• DBR_InitLicenseFromLicenseContent

From version 7.x

• You need to replace the old assembly files with the ones in the latest version. Download the latest version here.

• Go to Customer Portal to get your license key.

• Update your code to set the license

  char errorBuf[512];
  DBR_InitLicense("YOUR-LICENSE-KEY", errorBuf, 512);
  void* dbr = DBR_GetInstance();
  if(dbr != NULL)
  {
      // Add your code here to call decoding method, process barcode results and so on
      // ...
      DBR_RecycleInstance(dbr);
  }
  

Note: The following license activation related functions have been deprecated, they still work in this version but could be removed in version 10.0. We recommend you to use DBR_InitLicense to set the license.

• DBR_InitLicenseFromServer
• DBR_InitLicenseFromLicenseContent

From version 6.x

We made some structural updates in the new version. To upgrade from 6.x to 9.x, we recommend you to review our sample code and re-write the barcode scanning module.