.NET console application, web application, WCF service and Windows service for fetching and displaying currency rates from NBP webservice. The app was developed as a research project with aim to learn C#, .NET, Entity Framework and ASP.NET MVC.
The app fetches all the average currency rates for the current year from NBP webservice, saves them to local DB and displays the newest rates for each currency. Each subsequent run will fetch and process only new rates.
More information: (http://www.nbp.pl/home.aspx?f=/kursy/instrukcja_pobierania_kursow_walut.html)
The project can be compiled and run using Visual Studio 2015.
Startup project for console application is CurrencyRates.Console. To run the program use the following command:
CurrencyRates.exe [action]
There are three actions available:
Fetch- fetches the xml files from the webservice and saves them into DBProcess- processes unprocessed files from DB and save rates into DBShow- displays the newest rates for each currency
If no argument is given Fetch, Process and Show are run one after another.
The startup project for web application is CurrencyRates.Web. After running from Visual Studio web application shows the list of latest rates along with rates details.
WCF service is configured to be hosted inside Web application. It acts as a data source for web application.
The startup project for Windows service is CurrencyRates.WindowsService. After compilation the service can be installed using the following command:
installutil.exe CurrencyRates.WindowsService.exe
The service can be started using "Start - Run - services.msc". Navigate to "CurrencyRates Scheduler" entry and click "Run". The service will synchronize currency rates every 60 seconds.