First version of OFXParser released

Written by Christophe Kamieniarz Friday, 18 April 2008 12:53

As promised earlier, I released the C# sources of my OFX parser routine today. OFX stands for Open Financial eXchange and is a specification for the electronic exchange of financial data between financial institutions (such as banks, brokers) and specialized software. The most well known example of such software is Microsoft Money.

OFX is being used around the world and has become the main standard for financial data exchanges. You may download this OFX specs for free on the official OFX website.

The OFX standard is partly implemented in version 0.1 of my OFXParser, which is based on version 1.0.3 of OFX. Only a small subset of the OFX tags is used, because my parser focuses on investment transactions, such as the purchase and sale of stocks, options and currencies. In fact, I have coded the minimum needed to parse files from my broker. However, if you need some additional features (such as a bank statement transfer feature), you can add the code freely as specified in the disclaimer found at the top of each source file. It would be appreciated if you could retrofit these modifications and let me know about them. OFXParser requires the .NET Framework 3.0 3.5 runtime to work properly. It can be downloaded from Microsoft.

Version 0.1 of my OFXParser can be downloaded here.

A special thank to Kro for reviewing this text.

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