It takes 5 minutes to

href="http://www.overthehillandonaroll.com/2009/06/how-to-make-butter-in-under-5-minutes.html"

target="_blank">beat cream into butter, rel="nofollow"

href="http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/elvish-in-ten-minutes.html"

target="_blank">write half of your name in Elvish,

or

href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/372595/tattoo_gun_homemade_in_5_minutes/"

target="_blank">create a homemade tattoo gun. Or if

you want to get really wild, you could spend your next 5 minutes

creating a Windows application to get real-time precious metal

quotes. If that's a little too wild for you, you could also live

vicariously through us by href="http://www.xignite.com/gold-metal/web-service/2000206.html">watching

a video of us doing it. But if you're ready to throw

caution to the wind and give it a try for yourself, here's

how:

Step 1: Start a new Windows

application project in Visual Studio using VB.NET as the

language. (You can use any language, but this example just

happens to use VB.NET.)

Step

2: Create a web reference to

http://www.xignite.com/xMetals.asmx?WSDL and call it

XigniteMetals.

Step

3: On the Form1 design, drag and drop 2 text

boxes, 3 labels, and a button, arranging them as shown in the

picture. Give the left-most text box a name of tbMetal and

default text of XAU. Give the right-most text box a name of

tbCurrency and a default text of USD. From left to right, the

labels should be given the following names and default text

values: lIntro defaults to "Right now ", lCosts defaults to "

costs ", PriceLabel defaults to "0.00." The button should have a

default text value of "Get Quote."

class="aligncenter"

src="http://cdn.xignite.com/blog/03_09_10/5MinuteMetalsSpotPriceApp.png"

alt="" />

Step

4: Double-click the button to create its click

event handler. Then add the following lines of code inside the

event handler:

Dim

xHeader As New

XigniteMetals.Header()

xHeader.Username =

"MYAUTHENTICATIONKEY"

Dim XigniteMetalsWebService

As New

XigniteMetals.XigniteMetals()

XigniteMetalsWebService.HeaderValue = xHeader

Dim

Quote

As XigniteMetals.MetalQuote =

_

XigniteMetalsWebService.GetRealTimeMetalQuote(_

DirectCast([Enum].Parse(GetType(XigniteMetals.MetalTypes),

tbMetal.Text), XigniteMetals.MetalTypes), _

DirectCast([Enum].Parse(GetType(XigniteMetals.MetalCurrencyTypes),

tbCurrency.Text), XigniteMetals.MetalCurrencyTypes))

PriceLabel.Text =

Quote.Rate.ToString("#,###.00″)

Step 5: Replace

"MYAUTHENTICATIONKEY"

in the second line of code with your Xignite authentication key.

Don't have one? Just href="https://www.xignite.com/MyAccount/Register.aspx">sign up

for a free trial and use your e-mail address as your

initial authentication key.

Step

6: Compile and run.

Congratulations! You might

make a lousy tattooed elf chef, but you'll be the life of the

party with precious metal traders.

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