Using VB2008 to acccess the Betfair API: A tutorial

[JayBee]

Is everyone still able to login using the code given by Mumbles?

I use the exact login code that he gave us in this tutorial.

However, I get "API_ERROR" whenever I try to login and my programs no longer work.

[mizar1]

hello
I'm trying to understand if there is a command that tells me the time elapsed since a market and 'joined live.
I created the function through the .delay for a market that I follow but if I open a market that 'already started and is not' party now communicated to exactly how I can do
thanks

[Bonza Bud]

How can VB.Net use API-NG

Hi Mumbles,

I can see that you have entered a really useful post and spent a lot of time using VB.Net, I wrote my own program using VB.Net some years ago and then stopped using it.

I am now returning to write a new program. I am confused by the new API-NG using JSON and the comment that API V6 SOAP/XML is being retired in Nov 2014. Does this mean that we are forced to used JSON or can we still use VB.Net? Do you know what endpoints to use with the new API-NG and VB.Net?

Thanks

Bonzabud

[Bonza Bud]

Hi Rob, disd you ever get anywhere with this? Are you forced to use JSON or is there a way to still use your old VB.Net program on the new API-NG.

Like you, I find the lack of information strange - surely there are many users that have VB.Net programs and expect them to continue working even if the API V6 (SOAP) is becoming unsupported in Nov 2014.

Please respond

Bonzabud

[JayBee]

Hi Rob, disd you ever get anywhere with this? Are you forced to use JSON or is there a way to still use your old VB.Net program on the new API-NG.

Like you, I find the lack of information strange - surely there are many users that have VB.Net programs and expect them to continue working even if the API V6 (SOAP) is becoming unsupported in Nov 2014.

Please respond

Bonzabud

There are two APIs currently running, API-6 using SOAP and the new API-NG using JSON. They are incompatible APIs.

You can continue using your old code until Betfair stops broadcasting prices using the old API. Thereafter you will have to rewrite your code to process JSON. It really is much easier than SOAP. I've done so on my blog http://www.betfairprotrader.co.uk