rtd

RTD - making the sample COM DLL into a COM exe

I'm planning on making my existing application into an RTD server. The application is currently written in C++ and while I will eventually port it to C#/Mono I want to be able to add the RTD functionality with C++. I have found a few sample pieces of code (the MSVCRTDServer) and this site: http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/20...

Excel RTD server, repeated formulas won't update

I have an RTD server that feeds Excel with stock market data, and the problem I'm having is that when I open second Excel document, cells that have identical RTD functions as some cells in first document, they won't get updated. Actually, Excel will not call ConnectData() in RTD server for them, it just displays initial values. If I hit ...

Live time on Excel

Good morning everybody. I developed an application plug-in for Excel using VSTO. The thing is that I need to have a cell displaying the current time refreshed every 10 seconds. The =NOW() function of Excel is not refreshed automatically, even when auto-calculation is on. The best solution I could come up with was to create an RTD ser...

Excel RTD (Real Time Data) client other than Excel?

Hi everyone, I have been looking all over, and couldn't find any example for an RTD CLIENT (many RTD server samples, though). My goal is to 'pull' data from an RTD server into my application for algo-trading purposes. If possible, without using C# / .Net, as I am looking for a lightweight, deploy-able solution. Can you give me any ti...

Excel RTD COM server - Cannot cast UpdateEvent (class) to IRTDUpdateEvent (interface)

Hello All This issue is related to a blog post by Kenny Kerr on "Excel RTD Servers: C# Interfaces", which can be found here, that should allow you to build an Excel RTD server without including a reference to any specific Excel type library; having to include a reference makes your RTD server Excel version specific (forwards compatible,...