What Is Order2Go?
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What is Order2Go API?
Order2Go API is a high level programming interface for FXCM and many other broker trading servers. In common words the using Order2Go API your application can do everything that the Trading Station application can.
Connectivity and Compatibility
The Order2Go API allows you to connect to any real or demo connections, everywhere where the Trading Station can connect, using exactly the same connection parameters and exactly the same connection credentials.
The API can be used on Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or later operating system. The API is not designed to work under WinE or other Win32 simulators.
Interoperation
The Order2Go API is an Ole Automation library.
The API can be used in most of Win32 development environments.
The development environments which support the Ole Automation natively:
- Visual Basic 6.0
- Virtual Fox Pro
- VB Script and JScript (as a part of Microsoft Script Host)
- Delphi
- Microsoft Visual C++(*), (**)
- (*) In Microsoft Visual C++ there are two ways to use the API:
- Create an ATL-based wrapper using
#importdirective of the compiler - Use Order2Go via dual COM interfaces using
CoCreateInstance()andQueryInterface
- Create an ATL-based wrapper using
- (**) Please, distinguish Microsoft Visual C++ which is designed to develop native Win32 applications and Microsoft Managed C++ which is designed to develop managed CLR (.NET) applications.
The development environments which can interoperate with Ole Automation:
- Microsoft Visual C#, Microsoft Visual Basic.NET, Microsoft Managed C++
- Java (via Jacob library (http://danadler.com/jacob/) or Eclipse (
org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OleAutomation)).
If you don't see your development environment here, please google for your development environment and "Ole Automation support". The most probably that there are some solution.
Where to Get?
- To get a copy of
- the latest production version API please visit the Source Documentation|Order2Go forum at http://fxprogrammers.com site.
- the latest beta/development build version API please visit the Order2Go API forum at fxcodebase.
- To ask the question please visit:
- the Discussion/Support Forum|Order2Go COM Trading API Support at http://fxprogrammers.com site.
- the Order2Go API forum at fxcodebase.
- Browse Category:Order2Go category at fxcodebase wiki.
Documentation
- The offline copy of the documentation is included into the installation package.
- Read the latest version Order2Go API Online documentation
API Status
The Order2Go API is old API designed in the early beginning of 2003. Now the API is still supported but any further development is closed. The new Category:ForexConnect API is being developed.
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