Retrieving stock quotes in C#

I’ve been playing with the idea of writing a currency converter for my new Windows Phone 7. Stumbled across a tweet by Scott Hanselman regarding http://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun. Turns out someone else beat me to it with the BING “api” (more of a url naming convention really).

So I got a little diverted and wrote a little app to get stock quotes from google.

Here’s how, enjoy… (Using a default ticker of vodafone (.NET 4.0))