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POSReady: POS for .NET OverviewBy Gordon H. Smith, Embedded MVPMicrosoft? Point of Service (POS) for .NET v1.12 is a class library that enables POS developers to apply Microsoft .NET technologies in their products. POS for .NET provides a straightforward and consistent interface and classes that enable .NET applications to interact with POS peripheral devices, such as line displays or receipt printers. POS for .NET is part of the unified POS industry standard for writing applications and POS drivers that interface with POS peripherals devices. Going beyond the standard features, it includes support for Windows? Plug-and-Play functionality, device simulators, as well as Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).Prior to the introduction of POS for .NET, retail-oriented devices were implemented as OPOS (OLE for Point of Sale) controls. The OPOS model had two deliverables for each hardware device. One was a control object that was the interface delivered as a COM ActiveX object that the application used to control the device. The other was a service object that provided a device-specific interface to the hardware device and communicated with the control object. Collectively, these are shown in Figure 1 as Legacy SOs. This style of service object was often difficult to write and did not often benefit from Plug-and-Play support, which made administration of such service objects challenging. The POS for .NET environment incorporates support for these legacy service objects via the Legacy Interop System.Figure 1 illustrates how POS for .NET uses service objects and operating system infrastructure to provide programmatic access of POS devices to POS applications. A brief discussion of the various components follows.Figure 1. POS for .NET architectureIn POS for .NET, the POS for .NET PosExplorer object replaces the OPOS control objects, eliminating a typical service object/control object mismatch issue in OPOS. A POS for .NET service object, shown in Figure 1 as .