Ja, I agree. Thing is, I am sure the built in controls are not optized for frequently changing data. But geez, if you (Microsoft) are going to provide something, do it right from the beginning! nitro
Dierk, Gulp, the installation is in German! :eek: IMHO, you need to add English as a language option. nitro
what about straight up DDE links, they've always looked crisp to me, ...but maybe the refresh rate on my visual cortex is lagging
Nitro, - the product itself is english only, installation should be pretty forward - TradeMagic 2 installation will be english only Hope this helps Dierk
Nitro, - there is a known issue with new TWS build 819, pls see here: http://www.trademagic.net/instantkb12/article.aspx?id=10015 - if this is not the cause: could you pls elaborate and provide details - you also may contact me at dierk.droth@trademagic.net Hope this helps Dierk
DDE offers no guaranteed transmission of all data. At times Excel will be busy and you will miss quotes frequently. A simple example - let Excel autoupdate a graph or do some auto-saving and you include timestamps for received DDE data (via onData event for the worksheet, I guess) and you'll see. The ActiveX control is much better, but not flawless. See MS MSDN-resources for lots of information of .NET and DDE differences, and that new interface they introduced for real-time data (forgot it's name - but here's a starting point : http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/actxvnetcontrols.asp ).