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Currency Converter

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  1 year ago

  by adhingra

  Ashoo Dhingra

  , United States

  Joined 1 year ago
  Hi all, Wondering if anyone can help. I'm going to develop a currency converter. I want my application to get realtime currency rates but I don't how to achieve this. If anyone could point me in the right direction that would be great. I have only been at vb.net about a month now so im kinda a newbie but I have a good basic grasp anyway. Thanks
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  1 year ago

  by TimL

  Tim Leung

  Berkshire, United Kingdom

  Joined 2 years ago

  A possible way to approach this is to write an application that calls and retrieves currency rates via a XML web service. A quick search reveals the following:

  1. Here's an example of a web service that returns currency rates

  http://www.webservicex.net/WS/WSDetails.aspx?WSID=10
  

  2. Here's some example code of consuming the service above
  

  http://www.startvbdotnet.com/web/sample2.aspx
  

   

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