Question

How can barcodes be read on Windows Mobile devices?

The reader I am using states that it will support Windows Mobile 5.0, 6.0 and 6.5 phones.

Answer 1

Most mobile devices read the barcode like it is text, so the work is taken care of for you already.

Place a text box on your form, make sure that text box has the focus (that’s the biggest training issue we have here), and handle the Text_Changed event.

Here’s a quasi-code example:

TextBox textBox1;

void textBox1_Tex(object sender, EventArgs e) {
  MessageBox.Show(textBox.Text);
}