Project History
I've started working on this project a couple of years ago, before the launch of Windows 8, it was ready to be published since then, but with the launch of new Microsoft's operating system a common class library would have been useless, so I decided to port the old project to a modern WinRT component.

The idea for this project crossed my mind while I was using my HTC Touch Diamond running Windows Mobile 6.5, it came with a preinstalled widget named MSN Finance which allowed you to monitor some stock quote. I thought that this widget was very useful so I tried to see if I was able to see his source code. Turned out that it was written in HTML and JavaScript and all the URLs needed to query the stock database where stored in plain text inside a .js file, so I decide to wrap all those functionality first inside a class library and more recently in a WinRT component, and share it with other developers.

Now MSN Finance WinRT is in version 1.0 and permits to:
  • Search a stock
  • Update Stock data
  • Search for currency and indexes

Project Author
Name: Giancarlo Lelli
Job: Student & Freelance developer
Website: http://diaryofamsp.azurewebsites.net
LinkedIn: http://it.linkedin.com/pub/giancarlo-lelli/49/887/4b9

Disclaimer
This is not an official MSN Finance API and it may be removed if any copyright violation is found.

Last edited Dec 24, 2012 at 9:15 AM by GiancaSoftware, version 2