Question Live Currency Exchange Rates Data

[xcitenet]

Hello,

I have only just started on .Net (C#, VB) programming. Does anyone know how to retrieve live currency exchange rates data for example SGX stock market exchange rates. I am supposed to do a program which retrieves live currency exchange rates and then make use of the data on a currency converter. Would appreciate if anyone can provide some help.

Sorry for my english.

Jon

 

[Andrew007]

Ask your data provider to supply the WSDL, then you can use SvcUtil to generate the client class.. Or you can navigate to their WS with your browser and it will give you the schema.

 

[Tom]

If you can find a website that displays the current conversion rates in a consistent way, you can code to read the webpage and parse the information. I have done something similar for currency conversion & stock rates in the past but that was very long ago (pre .Net) and there may be easier ways of doing it now.

 

[Andrew007]

Nice idea but I've tried scraping in the past. XE was a good candidate at first glance but their data quality leaves a lot to be desired. Plus, most brokers provide FX stream for free when you open an account these days. So not much point..