C# The beginnings of a bot

[Macberrypro]

Of-course !

Hey Vossie, has then been any updates to this engine ?

I have started to invest some time in analysing it's architecture. This is a great POC & I am guessing this is how BF would like us to interact with the service ?

I would like to get an idea of the tolerances of the Betfair system, I understand the data-costs etc, but I want to make sure I do not put any unnecessary load on the system. Whom could I contact ?

Best

Clive

[vossie]

I am looking at reigniting this project in the new year and cleaning up all the quirks and getting it in a source control site. In other words refactor the whole thing to be more genric and capable.

The application would have been ideal for this guy http://fad.betfair.com/listing/73-Re...velopment.html with minimal coding.

Anybody that would join in developing/testing/using such a framework should vote here https://forum.bdp.betfair.com/showthread.php?t=653

[vossie]

I am looking at reigniting this project in the new year and cleaning up all the quirks and getting it in a source control site. In other words refactor the whole thing to be more genric and capable.

The application would have been ideal for this guy http://fad.betfair.com/listing/73-Re...velopment.html with minimal coding.

Anybody that would join in developing/testing/using such a framework should vote here https://forum.bdp.betfair.com/showthread.php?t=653

All these projects would have benefit and numerous other I suspect
http://fad.betfair.com/listing/72-is...ed-for-me.html
http://fad.betfair.com/listing/64-Au...cking-bot.html
http://fad.betfair.com/listing/73-Re...velopment.html

and more...

[Vreljanski]

I have developed about 6-7 customised small BF apps in last several months all with short timeframe and for one client. But looking at this code i was delighted... it's organised in a way my project should be one day... its really beautifull. I will enjoy learning from this. regarding helping in further development and testing... I would love to participate and will look at all the links... i hope i will have some spare time and my work goes in line with betfair.

Cheers!

[n0n0]

Hi Vossie,

First of all, thank you for sharing your work. I was working on a similar framework for a while, but due to lake of time, i never finished my work.

I tried to run your app (firstly converted into VS2010 beta), and i had some exception regarding controls accessed by the wrong thread.
After a few investigation, I noticed that somtimes you use

if (InvokeRequired)
{
    BeginInvoke(...);  // or Invoke(...);
}
else
{
    // Controls updating
}

and sometimes

if (InvokeRequired)
{
    BeginInvoke(...);  // or Invoke(...);
}
    // Controls updating

In the second situation, Control updating is performed twice, and once on a wrong thread!!

In such a case, my prefered construction is

if (InvokeRequired)
{
    BeginInvoke(...);  // or Invoke(...);
    return;
}
    // Controls updating

modifying this way MarketView.cs and MarketViewContainer.cs solved my exceptions issue.

Hope this can help someone else.
n0n0

[mangopws]

add reference

I'm new to use C#. If I want to add a reference target price & get an alart once the back/lay reach the target. Can I modify the program to do so ? And how can I do it ?

[z4887581]

Vossie, any further updates on Lignite, looks brilliant, doesn't seem to take AUS country code for australian markets though?

[geraintwalesuk]

Hi

Great project, any plans on further development?

I've made a slight change to LoadMarkets() in AutoMarketLoader.cs

Before:

		    case QueryOperator.GREATER_THAN:
			if (Convert.ToDouble(propertyValue) >
			    Convert.ToDouble(query.Value))
			{
			    loadMarket[x] = false;
			}
			break;
		    case QueryOperator.LESS_THAN:
			if (Convert.ToDouble(propertyValue) <
			    Convert.ToDouble(query.Value))
			{
			    loadMarket[x] = false;
			}
			break;

After:

		    case QueryOperator.GREATER_THAN:
			if (Convert.ToDouble(propertyValue) <
			    Convert.ToDouble(query.Value))
			{
			    loadMarket[x] = false;
			}
			break;
		    case QueryOperator.LESS_THAN:
			if (Convert.ToDouble(propertyValue) >
			    Convert.ToDouble(query.Value))
			{
			    loadMarket[x] = false;
			}
			break;

I have added a few lines of code to BetfairAPI.PlaceBets() to allow for paper trading, but I'm not sure where to place the event handler to actually add a new bet so its processed by MarketProcessor? Any pointers would be very welcome.

Many thanks

[Mapper]

VS express 2010

Could it be this apps recompliled in VS 2010? I cannot complite it again due to errors. Thanks!

[Gentlehag]

There are nullable Types.

You can fix it with some simple changes in code (note tested and no warranty)

in BetFairAPI.cs Line 472 change to

request.eventTypeIds = new int?[eventTypeIds.Length];

(insert the ? sign)

and Line 337 to

bfMarket.eventHierarchy.CopyTo(marketToUpdate.even tHierarchy,0);


this are just workarounds but it should keep the code running


BTW it would be a great way to change the apllication architecture to a kind of EBC Architecture and also it would be great using WPF as GUI :-)


If you need any advisory help let me know.

[strik50000]

How to make automat bet to Lay 2 euro any market ?

[sandstormed]

Erroe

When I click on the dropdown next to the yellow light I get the error:
"There is no region associated with the Invariant Culture (Culture ID: 0x7F)."
The code stops at:
public abstract class Helpers
public static string GetCurrencySymbol(string currency)
var regionInfo = (from c in CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.InstalledWin3 2Cultures)
let r = new RegionInfo(c.LCID)

I'm running Windows 7, which apparently behaves differently to Vista when it comes to invariant cultures.

So I changed the code to:
var regionInfo = new RegionInfo(System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.C urrentUICulture.LCID);
foreach (var cultureInfo in CultureInfo.GetCultures(CultureTypes.AllCultures & ~CultureTypes.NeutralCultures))
{
if (!cultureInfo.Equals(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) )
{
var regionCulture = new RegionInfo(cultureInfo.LCID);
if(regionCulture.ISOCurrencySymbol == currency)
{
regionInfo = regionCulture;
}
}
}

[stranger77]

klabor bee

How to make automat bet to Lay 2 euro any market ?

Use klabor bee tool to do it,

[nmpgaspar]

I tried to compile it and got 4 errors.

Error 3 Cannot implicitly convert type 'int?[]' to 'int[]' : Betfair.API.cs line 337
Error 4 Cannot implicitly convert type 'int[]' to 'int?[]' : Betfair.API.cs line 472
could not load referenced assembly ".../LigniteEngine.dll"
Metada file ".../Betfair.API.dll" could not be found

I guess the 2 last errors should be gone be fixing the two firsts...
How do I fix them?

cheers.

[aubergine]

I tried to compile it and got 4 errors.

Error 3 Cannot implicitly convert type 'int?[]' to 'int[]' : Betfair.API.cs line 337
Error 4 Cannot implicitly convert type 'int[]' to 'int?[]' : Betfair.API.cs line 472
could not load referenced assembly ".../LigniteEngine.dll"
Metada file ".../Betfair.API.dll" could not be found

I guess the 2 last errors should be gone be fixing the two firsts...
How do I fix them?

cheers.

Note, these are quick hack fixes just to get it building, I have no idea of the actual impact of these changes:

Line 337:
marketToUpdate.eventHierarchy = (int[])bfMarket.eventHierarchy.Clone();

Line 472:
request.eventTypeIds = new int?[eventTypeIds.Length];