Barcode Scanner reading

Question

Thanks Seam for your answer

I have a barcode scanner mode Z3010 of Zebex with USB connection.
I want to provide a solution to a customer that will use this barcode to scan data which can be scanned only with my software but not with any other scanner without the software. Is it possible!

If yes pls help me how i can do that with provide some clue.

Answer 1

I'm not really sure what you are after here. The purpose of UPOS is to provide a standard interface for application developers who need to work with POS peripherals. Are you developing the Service Object or the Application? If you are developing an app, and you want to make sure that nobody else uses the scanner while you are running, you could keep the device claimed. But once your application quits, others will be able to use the scanner.

Answer 2

In addition to Sylvester's response, the barcode could also be scanned with a scanner on another PC/device.

The only way to secure the scanned data, is as we've said in your other post, to encrypt the data before it is turned into a barcode, and decrypt it after it is scanned. Pos .Net/OPOS/UPOS do not provide any native support for this, but there are encryption classes in the .Net framework that possibly could be combined with Pos .Net to provide this sort of security.