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

  BarcodeReader.initLicense("YOUR-LICENSE-KEY");
  BarcodeReader reader = BarcodeReader.getInstance();
  if(reader != null)
  {
      // add further process
      reader.recycle();
  }
  

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 initLicense to set the license.

• initLicenseFromDLS
• initLicenseFromServer
• 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

  BarcodeReader.initLicense("YOUR-LICENSE-KEY");
  BarcodeReader reader = BarcodeReader.getInstance();
  if(reader != null)
  {
      // add further process
      reader.recycle();
  }
  

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 initLicense to set the license.

• initLicenseFromServer
• 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.