Developing a Realtime Stockreader using WPF and Yahoo Finance Data

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Introduction

RealtimeStockreader is a WPF-Desktop application thats enables users to watch live stock quotes and maintain their stock portfolio.

Using the code

I have developed this desktop application, since i did not want to show the Vista sidebar all the time, but I wanted to have realtime stockquotes. The default stock quote gadget in vista does not show live data, so I started looking at the yahoo API and developed this little desktop application. .netFramework 3.0 needs to be installed in order to run the application. No installation of RealtimeStockreader is necessary, just download and run - and give feedback, feature requests, etc.

RealtimeStockreader makes heavy use of databinding in WPF, which can be tricky sometimes. The StockReader class regularly updates all entered StockQuote using a DispatcherTimer object.

Points of Interest

The main focus of this application to have a good looking and well working realtime stockreader (well, not all stock data from yahoo is live!) which show how simple one can do great UI development with WPF.

History

Version 1.04: Added Alerting
Added Graph-Updating
Added Edit-Mode for Symbols
Symbols with less than 3 char's are now supported
Optimized positioning of property window
...and some more minor bugfixes