We work with Microsoft Tag API

Recently, the Microsoft Tag development team opened the API, after a short amount of time, I received my long-awaited token. Despite a number of existing disadvantages (closeness of the standard and the requirements of the Internet), the technology has several advantages: a common client for a variety of platforms, several label design options, statistics tools. I think this article will be of interest to developers under the Microsoft platform. If you already use QR codes that have a number of advantages, no one bothers you to add support for Microsoft Tag in parallel, which will allow you to attract additional traffic.


The platform allows, using web services, to create different labels (link, text, phone, vcard) and categories.

You can create a label in the “Main” category using the tracking method:
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You can add a new category as follows:



Ultimately, we need a picture for printing, which can be easily obtained:



Comments: Image Type (png, jpeg, etc.), size (size in inches), decType (tag type: with frame, without frame, with instruction, based on dots)

Detailed information on using the API can be found on this site . Unfortunately, this web service is under development and in some places is not convenient, to simplify the work with this service, I wrote a small simple library that will make life easier for developers.

Technology competition is always good. But the support of various types of labels is in my opinion the most rational solution.