Hey cardio, if you like that IDE you should try Visual Studio Express. Its totally free and has all the functionality you would need. I think Visual Studio is the best IDE available, amazingly since it is from M$. I'm using it to write an app of my own.

I'm trying to write an app to read reports from MT4 and digest/display various pieces of informtion from the reports. I want to share it and get feedback from the community as to what functionality it should have. It is still a long time away though.

But I think you would like VS Express.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/default.aspx

Fiveway,

I agree with you, I do trust Microsoft development tools. That's because Microsoft is the Windows creator.

I didn't try Express version yet but I'm going to download it when I go to my office which has ADSL connection. Thanks!

That's great! KEEP GOING .
Did you try Metatrader DDE? I think this topic may help you.

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Hi Stephen,

I've seen the answer too today in Metaquotes forum.
I'm wondering Why didn't they tell us that in their guide?

Anyway, When I opened MetaTrader 4\tester\files directory, I found eurud_1min.csv.

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Yea, MQ is very bad about certain things like that I've noticed. I don't want to gripe about it, b/c MT4 is a solid platform...its just MQ needs to fix soo many minor things. They got major things right, but the small stuff is killing them. Maybe if enough people complain they will do something, but I don't know.

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I am giving up on the idea to try debug the EA in C# - porting the thing seems so daughting and I see in Metaquotes version 149 they say that breakpoints will be implemented - hopefully this will enable debugging - anyhow - just to let you know what is happening - if I get more time I will continue for now though - just trial and error.
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cardio,
I'm so sorry to hear that .
Could I know exactly what do you want to do? Maybe I can help.

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Thanks for your help - the idea of porting the EA to C# was a bad one - requiring to much recoding - now I will just debug by writing out all my variable to a file and see what is going on - so not to worry - lets try make some money.

cradio,
Is it helpful to see a window with the state of all the variables during the backtesting, I can code that in VC++ for you (when I've time).

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That would require putting breakpoints into the EA - and putting the EA into the VC++ enviroment, right? - Else how do you debug? That is what I was trying to do with C# - I have sufficient data to test, and an EA that is basically written in C, - but that contains lots of custom functions like OrderSelect, OrderType, OrderLots - these would have to be rewritten to return the proper values. Functions such as iMA would not have to be written as they can be caluclated in the startergy tester and fed into the program.
If you have the time to do this - or another idea - I would love to test it. I will post up my current method of debugging - if and when I get it going.

Cheers

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My idea was creating a dll in VC++ which you can use in MT4 for debuging your expert advisor.
It will generate a report and pop up a window with the state of the varaibles you use in your EA (like a c++ debuging method called watches).

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