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By Matt Abar on 7/11/2008 2:23 PM

FinFolio has multicurrency built in at a core level. In Example #5 we create some currencies and FX rates and demonstrate valuing accounts in different currencies. With a real FinFolio database, the currencies would already exist and would be loaded into memory when the environment is initialized.

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By Mike Benson on 7/9/2008 3:19 PM

 We are now building and testing every two hours!  It may seem nerdish to be excited but its actually very good for all stakeholders.

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By Matt Abar on 7/1/2008 10:08 AM

As I mentioned before, the blog will get somewhat technical over the next week as we walk through some of the examples in the developer preview. I'll start with Example #4, which is a good introduction to the FinFolio objects.

The first line of every example is the InitializeConfiguration call that sets up the FinFolio environment. For now, we're creating the FinFolio database from scratch in every example, so it takes a few seconds. Initializing the environment does a few things. It establishes a connection to the database and loads all of the plug-in modules. Most of our functionality operates through the plug-in framework.

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By Matt Abar on 6/30/2008 6:52 PM

We just posted the developer release to the site. This is a toolkit for writing macros, automating downloads, and building extensions on top of our framework. There aren't any screens in this release, nothing but code. If you aren't an intermediate to advanced Microsoft .Net developer (or have one on staff), this is not the time to dive in--wait for the beta.

I'm very happy with our progress so far. All of our different development branches were tied together over the last couple weeks, and the end result is a clean, cohesive portfolio management engine. We're eager to get feedback from other developers.

Most of the last six months has been spent playing with different technolgies, without much concern for time or completing specific functionality. We'll still be making many changes, but this release represents an internal shift from "ivory tower" mode into "let's build a product" mode...

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