Data from Indicator on external C# program

[excepticons]

Hi.

Please, how can I get data that provides an Indicator (obviously built in NinjaScript) in an external C# program (using Visual Studio)?

Currently, I have observed that Indicators developed in NinjaScript are only for drawing lines above the candlesticks during a normal operation.

When I create a reference of the NinjaTrader.Client.dll, I can only call a list of specific methods, but I can't find NinjaScript methods like OnBarOpen, OnBarClose, CurrentBar, OnBarUpdate, and others.

Maybe, if I can get data from an indicator, I can combine the execution of indicators within NinjaTrader 8 plus the execution of other calculations, all on the external C# program.

I'm using NinjaTrader 8. Thanks for your cooperation.

Regards.

Gustavo

[NinjaTrader_JessicaP]

Hello excepticons, and thank you for your question. There are many methods to import symbols from a .dll file. The most popular in C# is the DllImport method, publicly available documentation here,

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984739.aspx

However, there is no matching DllExport method unless you add third party software to your Visual Studio installation. Since I can't see on my end which decisions you made as far as making symbols available to your other program, would it be possible to provide a stripped down code sample with your progress so far? This will just give me a better understanding of the situation so I can give the best help possible.

[excepticons]

Hi, Jessica.

Thanks for your reply.

I need to trigger a method on my Visual Studio C# program, based on a return value of a installed and compiled NinjaScript Indicator. That's it.

Something like image attached. ( )

Thank you, Jessica.

[NinjaTrader_JessicaP]

Thank you for the additional information excepticons. Since Microsoft only supports this sort of dll exporting for C++ natively, and NinjaTrader is written in MSDN C#, you will need to search the internet for a DllExport tool to make this possible. This publicly available stack overflow conversation will have more information on this topic.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4818850/is-is-possible-to-export-functions-from-a-c-sharp-dll-like-in-vs-c

[excepticons]

Thank you.