PinPad.BeginEftTransaction Method

2/27/2008

Informs the PIN Pad’s service object that an EFT Transaction is starting.

Namespace: Microsoft.PointOfService
Assembly: Microsoft.PointOfService (in microsoft.pointofservice.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public MustOverride Sub BeginEftTransaction ( _
    pinpadSystem As PinPadSystem, _
    transactionHost As Integer _
)

public abstract void BeginEftTransaction (
    PinPadSystem pinpadSystem,
    int transactionHost
)

public:
virtual void BeginEftTransaction (
    PinPadSystem pinpadSystem, 
    int transactionHost
) abstract

public abstract void BeginEftTransaction (
    PinPadSystem pinpadSystem, 
    int transactionHost
)

public abstract function BeginEftTransaction (
    pinpadSystem : PinPadSystem, 
    transactionHost : int
)

Parameters

• pinpadSystem
  Name of the desired PIN Pad Management System.

• transactionHost
  Identifies the EFT Transaction Host to be used for this transaction.

Remarks

The service object will perform initialization functions (for example, computing session keys). No other PIN pad functions can be performed until BeginEftTransaction is called.

BeginEftTransaction may cause a PosControlException to be thrown with the following ErrorCode:

Value	Meaning
Illegal	One of the following conditions has occurred: The requested PIN Pad Management System is not supported by the service object; or The requested EFT Transaction Host is an illegal value for the selected PIN Pad Management System.
Busy	The PIN pad device is already performing an EFT transaction.

Thread Safety

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread-safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread-safe.

See Also

Reference

PinPad Class
PinPad Members
Microsoft.PointOfService Namespace
EndEftTransaction