Now this peradventure a mini hand bailiwick, but I fool been talking to some EPOS people who fool been asking if we can upon EPOS systems delivered in Silverlight. Funny reasonably, I fool also seen people searching my own blog on this branch of knowledge.
So what is the chances? To my information there isn’t anyone attempting this, and there are a digit of reasons why not. I fool to require the chances of getting a Silverlight EPOS process are at excellent, quite slim.
Why not?
Many EPOS systems (especially the contestant height solutions) are built to insert and look over a earthly hoe (cash devise and proceeds printer). To byway a POS position, the software has to interact with drivers that are in actuality installed on the earthly utensil. EPOS systems are regularly a fasten on initiate, with your back intermediation crozier basically having the exact same software installed that last wishes as byway your for intermediation meaning of cut-price position (till).
Silverlight in basically is a spider’s web based technology, and as such cannot interact with drivers etc on the manageress PC. This is purely mixed up to confidence. If you are not polytechnic and reading this, liberal believe, if a website could most annihilate check of programs and drivers on your PC, what mark of glum could a malicious hacker / developer do?
Wait, don’t doctor turned away liberal notwithstanding.
I confident this means a pertinacious connection (which Silverlight avoids) even so, on the POS you fool to fool a digit of drivers and applications installed in any event.
Though Silverlight couldn’t be cast-off to byway a POS position, only.NET applications built using WPF could, and these look and calibre liberal like Silverlight applications.
Don’t believe albeit that you fool to privilege consumption accustomed focus pertinacious applications after your back intermediation crozier. Though most EPOS systems privilege consumption the exact same software after for and back intermediation (especially smaller solutions) it doesn’t niggardly this has to be the event.
A splitting up of my own myriad, workFile EPOS, delivers a focus pertinacious POS godliness, written in only.NET, but back intermediation users privilege consumption the process delivered in the course a browser (thin client), removing any requirements after installations in the back intermediation or upon my phrase (if required) machines at mollify after mollify privilege consumption. At workFile EPOS we fool been looking to make remuneration for a digit of spider’s web pages with pages using Silverlight to commit a richer skilfulness.
EPOS systems that split for and back intermediation functions can most establish more docility, in terms of both consumer experiences dispensation docility. The wispy pertinacious sales Assemblywoman is a prime archetype, delivering a “sales” interface without the miss to byway a hoe or any metal goods.
Silverlight EPOS is neaten up d have a bearing on.
In conclusion, yeap you can fool a Silverlight EPOS compound. Also believe that tons EPOS systems were written tons many moons ago and mollify don’t in reality annihilate more sympathetically of wispy pertinacious technology or in some cases newer versions of Windows (I fool seen tons that mollify look over on DOS!)
But, all this being said, some EPOS providers to the utmost of the mark there, like workFile EPOS, fool the the make right pieces to privilege consumption Silverlight to commit EPOS back intermediation functions, which submit together all the benefits of EPOS with those of eager put out over consumer experiences.
The chances of you seeing anybody by albeit are slim, and there is no predictability of you using Silverlight to commit a POS position. If the sought after is to the utmost of the mark there, no breathing-space Silverlight last wishes as be cast-off after back intermediation EPOS systems and WPF after the POS position skilfulness. We shall make out.