[Quickfix-developers] Baby Steps - How to walk the FIX talk?

[kuriandungu <kur...@ya...>]

Hi everyone. 
I'm a vb6 dev guy moving to vb.net. Recently got some dev work on a New Fix
4.4 Exchange.
Problem is I've no experience at all with Finance systems. Read up on Fix at
the fix protocol site and went through some beginner stuff. Could not
believe that there is a fully functioning open source Fix Engine (Thank you
All QuickFix guys and Gals....youre Great )

My question
a) i have been given a an IP .Address and a port number ie 62.XX.XX.XX :1000
and my client wants only to persist the Streaming data from the Exchange to
SQL or Excel. I have VS 2005 and the 2 dlls (quickfix_net.dll and
quickfix_messages.dll). How do i Logon and Persist the data stream?

b) Our Exchange works only between 10am and 1pm and i can only get the
stream at this time. Is there like a Fix simulator for Dev guys? 

c) I capture everydays stream via telnet to a text file. Is there a way of
referencing this file in QuickFix so that i can use it to test my code? 

Finally, Anybody have some really Elementary samples i could use (tried the
quickfix examples ie Executor and TradeClient) but our Exchange guys only
want to READ data not send messages etc. 

Thanks and Great job once again to QuickFix dev team. You guys are touching
many many lives in a positive way!
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