Barchart Commodity Reader Release Notes

This financial data reader pulls commodity data from the Barchart data API and an API key is required.

Supports MySQL 5.6, 5.7, 8.0

Version 1.7.0

Requires .Net Framework 4.8

February 9, 2024

  • Upgrade components

    • use Telerik WinForms 2024 Q1 .Net 4.8 (2024.1.130.48)

    • use latest ReaderUtils 1.0.54

    • use MySQL 8.0.33

  • Fix for errors that prevented data access with multi-instance setup.

Version 1.6.0

September 15, 2020

  • Improve database update code.

Version 1.5.0

September 14, 2020

  • Fix for topic list not loading when content group changed.

  • Use 'text' type tags and not 'number' for generated display values.

Version 1.4.0

June 16, 2020

  • Add a displayDate field to the dynamic fields to display Mon 'YY

    • Example: Aug '21

  • Don't use process ID with log names - just keep one log file per day.

Version 1.3.0

May 25, 2020

  • Add menu item to enable debug logging.

  • Save debug and performance logging options so that they reapply if the app is restarted.

  • Improvements to API data access code - avoid some errors and log data when errors happen.

Version 1.2.0

May 13, 2020

  • Improve installed shortcut name (remove .exe)

  • Fix for agent status not setting a valid next update time.

  • Fix for stock topic not added to cached topic list.

  • Improve logging.

  • Open release notes when downloading a new version.

Version 1.0.0

May 7, 2020

  • Create financial topics to add commodity data to.

  • Add and remove commodities in the financial topics created by the reader.

  • Enable and disable topics for updates.

REQUIRES THE .NET FRAMEWORK VERSION 4.6.1