I remember seeing some mention of Bloomberg and .NET, hash anyone started touse .net technology or langauges like c# to interface with bloomberg api.

You can simply wrap the Bloomberg COM objects in a .NET wrapper. Why you would want to use an old piece of crap like that, I don't know, but that's what you'd do.

Hi FDAXHunter,<<Why you would want to use an old piece of crap like that>> what other options are avaialbale???/

You don't have to do anything special to access legacy ActiveX / COM controls (including the Bloomberg Data Control) from .NET - just add them to your Visual Studio toolbar and drop them onto a form - COM Interop will take care of the rest. Remember to watch out for threading issues if you are using WinForms - WinForms controls are NOT thread-safe, and events from COM controls may get handled on their own thread, which means that you have to use Invoke to access controls on the form.Whether or not Bloomberg's API (ActiveX or C-API) is "an old piece of crap" is debatable, but if you have a Bloomberg license and want to get the data into another program it's what you've got to work with. In my experience, the ActiveX API has a few quirks, but basically works pretty well, and Bloomberg's breadth of data is unbeatable - no one else has the coverage they do.

I know of the company who exposes the Bloomberg control as a web service... which is much easier to use, then any kind of controls and/or API, since it's machine-independent. AFAIK, it's done in C#.NET

What's the name of the company ? any url's

OK.... It's been a couple of months -- Any updates/news on the VB.NET to Bloomberg API front? Any recent war stories? Thanks to all.

I checked with Bloomberg earlier this month. As far as the API goes, they support VBA, C (C++ isn't officially supported, but it should work anyway), and nothing else.The official line I was given is that they do not have any sort of anticipated data for C# / .NET functionality with their API.Then again, that may have been just some bored person at BBG keen to get me off the phone so that they could get rid of me and go home !

I just found out there is a release of the Bloomberg API for .NET. Anyone started playing around with it?I'd like to hear the first reactions.The documentation looks very thin, but they should put more with the next release. There's the few usual example, and I guess I'll start from there. Regards,G

I was trying to download the API for .NET at the WAPI website, but I experienced a technical problem to download it.Did anybody success to download it? I want to figure out if it is a problem with my station or Bloomberg has a temporal problem.Thanks,Michael

I downloaded the .NET API a day or two after the 2nd release was made available. I didn't seem to encounter any problems. I created a simple app that subscribes to a handful of key treasury rates, based upon some of the walk-through examples that were provided in the documentation. Haven't done much more with it since.-Greg Burns

Never mind...

so its been a while since the .net version came out. has anybody done any major work with it? anything i shd be careful abt before taking the plunge.

The historical bars request doesn't seem to return bars more recent than something like 22 minutes ago. And then it doesn't always have all the fields you requested for every time slice. For daily data, get every day, then remove the weekends yourself. Some symbols have delays without telling you...

thankx for the info