StreamInsight, LinqPad and MultiCharts

StreamInsight is a Microsoft API for programming complex event processing (CEP) applications. One of the scenarios of CEP is real-time analysis and trading of financial markets, however SteamInsight does not provide adapters to connect to data. But it looks like that it can be integrated in other platforms, such as MultiCharts to use its full potential.

I read through StreamInsight samples for LinqPad and I really liked how it works. I think it can be a great addition to MultiCharts .NET.

To try it, you will need to install StreamInsight from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download ... x?id=30149 and also install LinqPad from http://www.linqpad.net/. In LinqPad click on "Add connection" then "View more drivers" and "Download driver for StreamInsight 2.1". Next, under the Samples tab click on "Download/import more samples..." and "Download samples for StreamInsight 2.1". Now you can go through the sample queries and run them.

Here I can see two areas where MultiCharts integration would be really powerful. First is support for LinqPad as the code editor for MultiCharts by providing a MultiCharts driver for LinqPad similar to the other third-party drivers that are currently supported. This would allow dynamic composition of linq queries against data that comes from MultiCharts. This by itself would be a killer feature because it saves the developer from longer debug cycles in Visual Studio or PL Editor.

Second area is integration of StreamInsight in MultiCharts. I personally liked StreamInsight syntax against data more than MultiCharts .NET API because it uses a variation of Linq which is very intuitive and composable.

I want to suggest MultiCharts team to look into these types of integrations. I think these can bring great values to the platform.

Thanks.


Learn more about StreamInsight here:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wik ... t-2-1.aspx

Hello orad,

Thank you for your suggestion. It has been forwarded to our developers.
At the moment we do not plan adding support of StreamInsight into MultiCharts .Net.