Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Business Application Blueprints

Building a Stock Ticker Web Part

For publicly traded companies it is also desirable to display the current stock quote information. Like the Weather Web Part previously configured, there are many publicly available services that can provide this information. For this example, we will query a REST based service provided by Yahoo having the following address:

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select * from yahoo.finance.quotes where symbol in ("MSFT")&env=store://datatables.org/alltableswithkeys

Approach

The stock quote information can be shown in a number of different ways. In cases where the information needs to be on every page, it should be added to a container on the Master Page with the s4-notdlg style reference previously included ...