Craig Jensen - Windows Embedded for Point of Sale

The Discussion

• 

  I'm developing a pos system at the moment using .net but am I allowed to install Windows embedded on a normal desktop computer that is dedicated for POS?

• 

  Yes, one of the changes with the WEPOS 1.1 release is that you can install the .NET POS bits on a Windows XP machine.
  
  More information available on my blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2006/03/09/547327.aspx 
  
  - Mike

• 

  Great, last question: Is the package available outside the US/Canada like Europe? What about hardware? Touchscreens?

• 

  yes - the WEPOS bits are available world-wide.
  
  There are two ways the WEPOS product can be used.
  
  1. Install the WEPOS operating system onto your POS hardware - the operating system installs in much the same way as Windows XP Professional - you can also install the WEPOS SDK on your development PC and write code in Visual Studio 2003 or 2005. The WEPOS Evaluation kit can be ordered from http://www.windowsembeddedkit.com
  
  2. Download the WEPOS SDK from MSDN (link on my blog) - http://blogs.msdn.com/mikehall/archive/2006/03/09/547327.aspx - you can code and test on your development PC and deploy either to a WEPOS O/S Install or to a Windows XP machine.
  
  - Mike

• 

  Looks pretty cool. Can you guys mention any specific stores that use this technology?

• 

  I've seen your video. It's very impressed. I'm developing POS application on Windows XP Pro platform. I've installed POS for .NET 1.1 on my box and I've got VS Studio 2005. I followed what you did in the video but I got an unhandled exception of type System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException occurred in  mscorlib.dll (on the line that does type conversion - "display = (LineDisplay) explorer.CreateInstance(device)).
  
  Can you help me on what I did wrong?
  
  Or is there any POS for .NET document or example for WinXP Pro or even on WePOS itself?
  
  Regard,
  Tom

• 

  Craig mentions in this video that you can create a service object in like a day.   Is this correct?  An OPOS Service Object development for a POS Printer took us months.  I don't see how this can be unless I have the terminology incorrect.

• 

  I am having trouble getting this to work with the ithaca 610 (also known as the itherm series 280 ). do you think you can give me a hand ? someone got an Email that I can send my project to or something. thanks.

• 

  Hi,
  
  I'm building a POS applications for MSR device (this is Megtak device MICR MICRIMAGE RS232 W/3TK MSR ) using Visual Studio 2005, framework 2.0 and the POS .NET SDK 1.12.but when i have run the application there is nothing happing.can u tell me what i did wrong.
  
  ***************
   OS: Xp with service pack 2
    Vishul Studio 2005
    .Net Framework 2.0
    Installed: Microsoft POS for NET 1.12
    link:
    https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eaae202a-0fcc-406a-8fde-35713d7841ca&displaylang=en
   Add referance "Microsoft.PointOfService"
  

  my Code here:
  *************************************
   private PosExplorer myExplorer;
          private Msr myMSR;
         
          public Form1()
          {
             InitializeComponent();
              myExplorer = new PosExplorer(this);
              myExplorer.DeviceAddedEvent += new DeviceChangedEventHandler(myExplorer_DeviceAddedEvent);
              myExplorer.DeviceRemovedEvent += new DeviceChangedEventHandler(myExplorer_DeviceRemovedEvent);
            
          }
  **********************************
   void myExplorer_DeviceAddedEvent(object sender, DeviceChangedEventArgs e)
          {
             
              if(e.Device.Type == "Msr")
              {
                       
                  myMSR = (Msr) myExplorer.CreateInstance(e.Device);
                  lblStatus.Text = "New Msr attached: " + e.Device.ServiceObjectName;

                  myMSR.Open();
                  myMSR.Claim(1000);
                  myMSR.DeviceEnabled = true;
                  myMSR.DataEventEnabled = true;
                  myMSR.DecodeData = true;

                  Update();
                  myMSR.DataEvent +=new DataEventHandler(myMSR_DataEvent);
              }
           }
  ******************************************************
   void myExplorer_DeviceRemovedEvent(object sender, DeviceChangedEventArgs e)
          {
              if (e.Device.Type == "Msr")
              {
                  myMSR.DataEventEnabled = false;
                  myMSR.Close();
                  lblStatus.Text = "New Msr removed";

              }
          }
  *********************************************************
   void myMSR_DataEvent(object sender, DataEventArgs e)
          {
              ASCIIEncoding myEncoding = new ASCIIEncoding();

              txtInput.Text = myEncoding.GetString(myMSR.Track2Data);
              lblStatus.Text = "Data Event";
              Update();
              myMSR.DataEventEnabled = true;

          }

  Regards
  mcamail2002@gmail.com

   

  
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• 

  Hi,
  
  I'm building a POS applications for MSR device (this is Megtak device MICR MICRIMAGE RS232 W/3TK MSR ) using Visual Studio 2005, framework 2.0 and the POS .NET SDK 1.12.but when i have run the application there is nothing happing.can u tell me what i did wrong.
  
  ***************
   OS: Xp with service pack 2
    Vishul Studio 2005
    .Net Framework 2.0
    Installed: Microsoft POS for NET 1.12
    link:
    https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=eaae202a-0fcc-406a-8fde-35713d7841ca&displaylang=en
   Add referance "Microsoft.PointOfService"
  

  my Code here:
  *************************************
   private PosExplorer myExplorer;
          private Msr myMSR;
         
          public Form1()
          {
             InitializeComponent();
              myExplorer = new PosExplorer(this);
              myExplorer.DeviceAddedEvent += new DeviceChangedEventHandler(myExplorer_DeviceAddedEvent);
              myExplorer.DeviceRemovedEvent += new DeviceChangedEventHandler(myExplorer_DeviceRemovedEvent);
            
          }
  **********************************
   void myExplorer_DeviceAddedEvent(object sender, DeviceChangedEventArgs e)
          {
             
              if(e.Device.Type == "Msr")
              {
                       
                  myMSR = (Msr) myExplorer.CreateInstance(e.Device);
                  lblStatus.Text = "New Msr attached: " + e.Device.ServiceObjectName;

                  myMSR.Open();
                  myMSR.Claim(1000);
                  myMSR.DeviceEnabled = true;
                  myMSR.DataEventEnabled = true;
                  myMSR.DecodeData = true;

                  Update();
                  myMSR.DataEvent +=new DataEventHandler(myMSR_DataEvent);
              }
           }
  ******************************************************
   void myExplorer_DeviceRemovedEvent(object sender, DeviceChangedEventArgs e)
          {
              if (e.Device.Type == "Msr")
              {
                  myMSR.DataEventEnabled = false;
                  myMSR.Close();
                  lblStatus.Text = "New Msr removed";

              }
          }
  *********************************************************
   void myMSR_DataEvent(object sender, DataEventArgs e)
          {
              ASCIIEncoding myEncoding = new ASCIIEncoding();

              txtInput.Text = myEncoding.GetString(myMSR.Track2Data);
              lblStatus.Text = "Data Event";
              Update();
              myMSR.DataEventEnabled = true;

          }
  Regards
  mcamail2002@gmail.com
  ***************************************************************