I have been browsing the IB API C++ source code, I notice the protocol to trader workstation is actually pretty simple, but the implementation is rubbish (MFC dependencies etc). My question is, do people bother to re-implement this layer? is there anything which is not immediately obvious that I should be aware of?
I know of a C implementation. http://sourceforge.net/projects/tws-c-api I haven't looked at it lately, but when I did it didn't need Microsoft's stuff.
Cheers for the link, that may be a good implementation cross reference, but I was hoping for something a little more C++'esq (e.g. strings and containers).