A tool to retreive live stock/share data from the web.
StockBag is a desktop utility wherein you can define your stock portfolio/watch-list and view live stock data.
Most of the action happens in the StockBagMainForm class. There are two timers, one for getting live stock data from Yahoo! Finance and the other for refreshing the list. The live stock data timer creates a thread which will access Yahoo! Finance to get a CSV format string with live data.
The tool uses the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse .NET classes, which, by default, use the IE proxy settings. If you don’t have IE installed, and proxy is configured via some other browser, this tool might not work. Also, if you have a firewall installed, you need to give access to StockBag to access the Web. If Yahoo! finance is blocked by your firewall, then this tool will not work.
StockBag is a desktop utility wherein you can define your stock portfolio/watch-list and view live stock data.
Most of the action happens in the StockBagMainForm class. There are two timers, one for getting live stock data from Yahoo! Finance and the other for refreshing the list. The live stock data timer creates a thread which will access Yahoo! Finance to get a CSV format string with live data.
The tool uses the HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse .NET classes, which, by default, use the IE proxy settings. If you don’t have IE installed, and proxy is configured via some other browser, this tool might not work. Also, if you have a firewall installed, you need to give access to StockBag to access the Web. If Yahoo! finance is blocked by your firewall, then this tool will not work.
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