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Major additions:

• Setup Dialog UI - does not include all available features, but does include the most important ones
  • Change number of scrolling lines as well as visual settings
  • Add/remove custom feeds
• Change stocks dialog
• Value change in addition to percentage change

These changes were made in accordance with the stated wish list declared here.

Download binaries here: FreeStocksTicker Beta 2.zip

Download source code here: stocksTicker live beta 2 src.zip

Previous posts:

Quick FYI to users of my “Free Stocks Ticker”
“Free Stocks Ticker” Freeware Beta Update Uploaded
“Free Stocks Ticker” Freeware Wishlist
Free Stocks Ticker and Scrolling RSS Freeware

Cheers!

Continuing from my post about an open source freeware I published called “Free Stocks Ticker”:

I didn’t get a lot of feedback, still I did construct my own wish list. Add anything you want in the comments:
* multi instances
* “add rss” command in the context menu
* options dialog: edit stocks list, edit rss feeds
* optional sub menus
* auto rotate feeds
* adjust fonts/colors from xml/ui
* add up/down icons
* add about dialog
* add readme.txt with keyboard shortcuts
* add “start on startup” context menu
* use check mark to show current feed on context menu
* nbc icon
* Link back to my blog and email (why did I not include that to begin with?!)

In the meanwhile, I added a live source zip on skydrive. I will update that source code zip periodically until I make a “release”. At which point I’ll go back to the 3 sites I published to begin with and update them that a new version exists.

Right now, if you are interested, the live c# source contains some fixes to the RSS reader.
Cheers!

Update Beta 2 found here

Allow me to share with you a simple tool I recently wrote. You can download the binaries, unzip them and run for a test. You can also download the source code.

First, you will need to download and install (if you haven’t already, or you do not have visual studio 2008 installed):

Microsoft .Net 3.5 Runtime

Then download the binaries, unzip and run:

FreeStocksTicker.zip

Hint: You can customize this ticker by editing the settings xml file that’s in the zip file. You can add any number of RSS feeds to scroll, as well as change which stocks you want to get quotes for.

For those who are interested in the code, download this file:

FreeStocksTicker_Src.zip

The zip file contains the visual studio 2008 project and c# code. In the code you will find examples of:

• Download stock quotes from Yahoo
• Implement a simple plugin framework
• Read RSS using LINQ
• Parse several date formats in XML based RSS feeds
• Use XML as a generic settings document (instead of INI)
• Open default browser from a web link
• Get primary screen refresh rate

Credits to techniques used in this freeware are within the code.

The license is simple: Download it and do whatever you want with it. A thank you would be appreciated.

Still should write some readme file to explain all the features and keyboard keys… I will do this after I see some feedback and downloads.

Have fun.
Cheers!