Using VB.NET with API example

psytek · Aug 24, 2005

Can't seem to be able to compile the TestActiveXClient_VB example using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.

Did anyone succeed in this?

thanks,
herman

nononsense · Aug 24, 2005

Quote from psytek:

Can't seem to be able to compile the TestActiveXClient_VB example using Visual Basic 2005 Express Edition.

Did anyone succeed in this?

thanks,
herman

Wait a couple of years, it might go. That's how it used to be in the past.

psytek · Aug 24, 2005

Perhaps its time to rephrase the question :-)

Has anybody converted the VB_API_sample example software to VB.net?

thanks,
herman

TGregg · Aug 24, 2005

I never did. The API is pretty simple and the docs are decent, IMO. It's not too hard to hammer out w/o a starting example.

psytek · Aug 24, 2005

Wish I had your expertise ... to old-timers today's programming terminology and structure can be quite baffling.

herman.

prt_systems · Aug 24, 2005

Quote from TGregg:

I never did. The API is pretty simple and the docs are decent, IMO. It's not too hard to hammer out w/o a starting example.

Sounds pretty easy: could you post the code then ?

Holmes · Aug 24, 2005

Quote from psytek:

Wish I had your expertise ... to old-timers today's programming terminology and structure can be quite baffling.

herman.

same here, grew up on Algol, Fortran, Cobol, SQL and Unix scripting. This windows stuff? Yuckkk

Sherlock

TGregg · Aug 24, 2005

Quote from Holmes:

same here, grew up on Algol, Fortran, Cobol, SQL and Unix scripting. This windows stuff? Yuckkk

Sherlock

You guys have this stuff all wrong. Lord knows, I hate doing bitblips and all that BS, and it takes me an hour of research to write a line of that sort of code.

This API stuff from VB is like falling off a log. I'm not quite from the COBOL, FORTRAN days (but I did learn them both in school), but if you know a couple high level lingos, you are all set. I taught a class of COBOL programmers how to write VB (and I will always remember Donna who had big. . . errr. . . buttons).

The main problems you'll have will be syntax, variable types, and converting from the API with funky variable types like LPCSTR (Long Pointer to a Character STRing) to VB. I swear, in C++ there must be about one different standard variable type for every person on this planet.

Anyway, go hang out in the IB forums. Folks there will set you straight. VB's not that hard to learn if you already know loops and such.

psytek · Aug 25, 2005

Quote from TGregg:

Anyway, go hang out in the IB forums. Folks there will set you straight. VB's not that hard to learn if you already know loops and such.

OK. If anyone else is interested in this topic and wants to share what we can come up with please email me privately at psytek-at-magma.ca A collective search may give better results.

IB Forums are at IBhttp://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/general/education/discussionForum.php?ib_entity=llc.

Best regards,
herman

prt_systems · Aug 25, 2005

Quote from TGregg:

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This API stuff from VB is like falling off a log. I'm not quite from the COBOL, FORTRAN days (but I did learn them both in school), but if you know a couple high level lingos, you are all set. I taught a class of COBOL programmers how to write VB (and I will always remember Donna who had big. . . errr. . . buttons).

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Sounds like you are an expert ..... if its all so easy and fast then why not just write up the code and post it ?