A Stock-Quote App

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This week we’ll build a stock-quote app. It lets the user see the latest quotes for a few famous stock markets, such as the NASDAQ Composite and the FTSE 100. It also allows the user to define a list of stock symbols in a watch list and see the latest quote for each of those symbols. The app uses the /stock_quote endpoint, which will provide stock quotes in JSON given a list of one or more stock symbols, optionally comma-separated for multiple quotes at one time.

We’ll build the app using the Universal Windows Platform. This allows us to build an app that will run in almost any Windows environment: Windows phones, tablets, desktop ...

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