[Quickfix-developers] VB.NET and Python

[Oren M. <or...@qu...>]

There are a couple things I've checked into CVS that may be of interest 
to some people.

I posted and checked in a fix that will allow QuickFIX to be used from 
VB.NET again.  In an effort to better support this API, I also checked 
in the Executor sample application implemented in VB.NET, and have 
added VB.NET code snippets to the documentation.  I also plan on 
implementing the acceptance test server in C# and VB.NET, like we have 
for C++ and Java, to further insure these API's will always be stable 
with each new release.

Also, I have been working with the SWIG (www.swig.org) guys for the 
past week and we now have a working Python API.  This API is for the 
most part generated by swig, so it automatically keeps itself up to 
date whenever there is a change to the C++ API.  This has some 
potentially interesting uses as you can now access a complete FIX 
engine through a scripting interface.  This can open up whole new 
possibilities for writing useful utilities, or pumping out a quick 
script to push those trade reports to your counter-party via FIX.  I'd 
be interested to get feedback on this from any experienced python 
programmers.  The Executor example has also been implemented in python 
and code snippets are in the documentation as well.

--oren