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Mobile Development: Analyze QRcode content on Windows Mobile

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You possibly know these QRcodes that make your phone open a web site or add a contact. Unfortunately there is no such function on Windows Mobile and I just wrote a demo of such a functionality:
A demo app to show how these nifty QR barcodes are encoded to hold URLs, business cards, appointments or other data. Further on, the application shows how to use QR code reading and import or launch the appropiate application for the QRcode content. The demo uses ZXing.Net to encode text into a QRcode barcode image but ZXing or ThoughtWorks code to decode QRcode images as the latter was easier to use. Then there is a list of sample encodings to show you how to specify a vcard or SMS or others to be encoded into a readable QRcode.

After start of the app and then simply click in the type list at the top and select for example “vcard”. In the sample field you can see how a vcard is to be encoded:

BEGIN:VCARD
N:Heinz-Josef Gode
ORG:ACME GmbH
TITLE:Systems Engineer
TEL:0123456789
URL:www.hjgode.de/wp
EMAIL:heinz-josef.gode@somewhere.com
ADR:Musterstrasse 1
NOTE:Support Engineer
END:VCARD

Now click [decode&encode] and you get the QRcode image and the cleaned content:

  

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