How to open a specific bloomberg terminal page programmatically?

c# .net com dde bloomberg
Idriss picture Idriss · Sep 5, 2010 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

Is there a reliable way to open a specific bloomberg terminal page programmatically (e.g. "MSFT Equity")?

I am open to any suggestions and code samples:

  • Start process with path to bloomberg terminal executable and ticker in the arguments
  • Bloomberg API
  • DDE
  • COM Automation
  • SendKeys (can be blocked by some antivirus software)
  • ...

Many thanks

Answer

Jon Freedman picture Jon Freedman · Jan 17, 2011

You can get the answer to this through the terminal:

API < GO > > API Developer's Website > WAPI Home > FAQs > Miscellaneous Topics

And the specific question is How can I communicate programmatically with the Bloomberg Professional?

The string you need to send over DDE is 

<blp-1><home>MSFT US<EQUITY><GO>DES<GO>

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