Yogesh Shetty, Samir Jayaswal. Practical .NET for Financial Markets

Apress, 2006. — 536 p.Practical .NET for Financial Markets was born because we were convinced no focused literature existed for people involved in application/product development in financial markets using .NET.
Although a lot of .NET-related material is available, most often it is not relevant for developers in the finance domain. The finance domain poses some interesting issues and challenges. Reliability, accuracy, and performance are tested to the hilt.Given the number of professionals worldwide who are engaged in implementing solutions using Microsoft technologies as well as the impending changes that .NET will bring about in all future applications, this book will be of considerable interest to a lot of readers. While the same concepts can be extrapolated to various types of markets, we have kept our discussion restricted to equities markets because most readers are familiar with them and because the level of technology absorption in equities markets is quite high when compared to other markets.Strictly speaking, this book is for those who want to understand the nuances of financial applications and the implementation of technologies in financial markets using .NET. Solution providers for financial markets in general and equities markets in particular will find this book exceptionally useful.
Developers who want to understand .NET and also get exposed to the fundamentals of financial markets will also find this book invaluable. The book covers techno-domain issues in an unprecedented way. The issues discussed are practical in nature, and readers will almost immediately start relating issues discussed in this book with their day-to-day work.This book is clearly divided into business sections and technical sections. The business sections first discuss the functional aspects of the issues that the market is facing. Once you read the business section in each chapter, you will have a reasonable grasp of the business flow for that particular topic.
The technical section picks up where the business section leaves off and discusses the issues faced and their possible solutions using .NET. We do not stop at merely discussing the .NET Framework. In most places, we have written a small prototype to make each topic easy to understand and easy to implement.The implicit goal of the book is to provide insight into the practical, day-to-day challenges posed by domain-specific issues. The book provides in-depth engineering solutions for the exchange markets while covering all aspects of the .NET Framework. We believe that multiple solutions to a problem may coexist. The solutions provided in this book may or may not be an optimized solution for a particular problem but will surely be one of the solutions to address the issue.Because both problems and solutions are interwoven in every chapter, you will get a sense of completeness with each chapter, which covers both the business aspects and the relevant .NET features and framework. This also means we will deal with every aspect of .NET in its proper context by
explaining how the features are relevant and applicable to a real-life business case.
Our aim in writing this book is twofold. We want to educate readers on Microsoft .NET technology, and we want to discuss key challenges that developers and solutions architects in the financial technology space face in their day-to-day development.