It has been a little over a week now since I first installed Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition. My first impressions are that this is a very solid program. Visual Studio 2008 was released in late November 2007 and by now most investment banks have migrated their development environments from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008.
The first thing you will notice after installing Visual Studio 2008 is how quickly it loads. Even on my old Pentium four system Visual Studio is still snappy and responsive. Visual Studio 2008 includes the .NET Framework 3.5 and in the professional version you have the ability to target different versions of the .NETÂ framework. This is a huge advantage over Visual Studio 2005 were you could only target one framework. The .NET Framework 3.5 brings with it many additional class libraries and features. Some highlights include:
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In our previous article we used a simple method for importing stock quote data into Excel. Today we will look at a robust automated method for querying more data sources then just Yahoo finance. The Stock Market Functions Add-in for Excel is a free tool developed by by Randy Harmelink. The stock market functions Add-In allows you to import data from sites like Yahoo, Business Week, Reuters, Google, Bloomberg, MSN and many more. In the latest release there are beta features for several technical analysis functions like
