POS System with Pos for .NET

Question

I am planning on creating my own POS system by using pos for .net. So far i have never created any POS system or used pos for .net. I was trying to find some tutorials but wasn't successfull, does anybody know some good website or book? I am also wondering if there is a way to emulate the pos devices (like barcode scanner....)

Answer 1

Using windows embedded 8 industry As your base system and the POS .net you will be able to achieve what you are trying to do.

As mentioned by @CResults most barcode readers are plug and play. So unless they need to have com ports mapped you will not have to do anything to them. They scan decode and then send the values like a keyboard

Receipt printers are the issue. You can either use the windows driver to print to the printer (highly buggy) or every receipt printer you can communicate directly too through a Com port. You will need to ask for the SDK from the manufacture. This way you are communicating direct to the printer rather then relying a mediator that could crash or freeze.

But the time you are going to spend building your project there are plenty of already created ones. It would be worth while to use a system that has already been developed on for years. Rather then re-invent the wheel.

Check out Bepoz http://bepoz.com/ They have been around for a while and have a very solid application.

Disclaimer: Employee of Bepoz

Answer 2

To answer part of your question most barcode scanners appear to the OS as keyboards, sending their output (the decoded value of the barcode) to your app as a string of characters.

So to emulate all you need do is capture the keyboard.

Answer 3

I believe the SDK comes with plenty of sample code and documentation.

There's also a community forum:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/posfordotnet/threads