After years of promise it really does look like mobile is the next big thing? But what mobile platform will prove to be the most popular? It seems to be a two horse race between iPhone and Android, with Windows Mobile lagging somewhere in the distance – or is it already a non-runner? In any case it’s been delayed until late 2010.
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Would anybody want StreamLink for Windows Mobile?
Phil Leggetter
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Getting realtime data into Excel
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Starting with Excel 2002, Microsoft have included the RTD interface which allows Excel to poll for data. Polling seems to be a much more efficient way of getting data into Excel than the classic approach which is pushing – it’s not uncommon to find yourself pushing when Excel isn’t ready which results in lockups, inconstitencies and other undesirable effects.
The RTD interface is small (6 methods) and Kenny Kerr has a great series of articles about RTD on his blog so I won’t repeat that information here and instead concentrate on integration to StreamLink.NET and pulling in real time data from a Caplin platform deployment.
The following walkthrough is a short example of how to do this, there’s no error checking, logging and certainly the example is nowhere near production quality, however it does demonstrate that linking up Excel and data from the Liberator is straightforward.
