I have been asked to build a POS Application for a Restaurant. I have experience creating POS application in VB6.0 and have always wanted to create one with UX. I am looking to create one with WPF as front end. I pretty much have the process picture in mind and also screens.
Said so much, I am not sure how to Architecture one.
Few Major questions that come to my mind are :
Should I use Composite Application Guidance for WPF – Prism. If the answer is yes will performance reduce as in POS Application, time can be critical, customers want prompt service.
I am thinking Dependency Injection should be used for better maintenance.
using ADO.NET Entity Framework- LinQ to SQL
I want to grow this application later to include Inventory Management and Data Mining, Management reports.
will use POS for .NET
Hope I will be able to get this all cleared up this weekend.
Please Advise.
Thank you,
Mar
Edit:
I am still leaving it open will like to get more views/ advises.
Lots of general questions there, I’ll try to touch a little on everything.
In general you should check out the Application Architecture Guide. It’s a very good, general primer on architecting all sorts of .NET applications.
I don’t think you are going to have any problem with Prisim. Take specific note of the MVVM Pattern. On the “performance” issue, I think what you are really talking about is “responsiveness”. So a POS allplication needs to be very responsive to the user. Using WVVM, you can get very good responsiveness in your application.
Personally, I would stay away from this version of Entity Framework (although next version is looking good). I think LinqToSQL is fine (afterall, SO uses it 🙂 Look at NHibernate for .NET if you want ORM.
Good luck.