Nokia, Google, Microsoft are working or starting to work with QR Codes (see former posts). And there are several good QR Code Readers out there now. And most importantly there are many many people and companies who have already embraced it. Will QR Codes be as successful as in Japan today or even reproduce the success story of SMS? We believe so and we even think that this open standard will set loose the creativity and ingenuity of millions everywhere in the world.

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I posted already about .NET projects here and about Confucius there. Now Thomas Amberg sent me this link:

OpenNETCF QRCode Library for .NET Compact Framework

The OpenNETCF QRCode Library is a .NET Compact Framework component that allows developers to decode QRCode images on a Windows Mobile or Windows CE device.

After reading about Windows Live Barcode* (which doesn't seem to be available anymore*) OpenNETCF decided to port an existing Java implementation to C# specifically for .NET Compact Framework.

NOTE: Currently QRCodeCF is fully functioning as a decoder but there is no encoder implemented. To generate a QR Code see the Kaywa website

You can download the latest stable release of the OpenNETCF QRCode Library for .NET Compact Framework source and samples from here. You can also get the latest source code from the anonymous Subversion repository.

OpenNETCF QRCodeCF is released under the MIT X11 license. OpenNETCF QRCode Library requires Smart Device Framework 2.1 (Community Edition or Extensions for Visual Studio).