COM issue with 1.3.0.0 and Horse racing event names

[HiArt99]

Hi,

upgraded to 1.3.0.0 this morning. I have pointed Visual Studio to the upgraded DLL but have an issue with navigation.

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            For Each sport In sports
                Trace.WriteLine(sport.sport)
                If sport.sport = "Horse Racing - Today's Card" Then
                    Dim Events As Object = ba.getEvents(sport.sportId)
                    For Each evnt As BettingAssistantCom.Application.BfEvent In Events
                        If evnt.exchangeId = 1 Then
                            'removes australian
                            Trace.WriteLine(evnt.eventName)
                            'If Not evnt.eventname.ToString.Contains("(") Then
                            '    'removes(place) (RSA) (US) (AvB) and simular. But also removes (IRE) which may be an issue later
                            '    If evnt.startTime.day = Now.Day Then
                            '        'make sure everything is for today
                            '        Dim row As DataRow = races.NewRow
                            '        row("course") = evnt.eventname
                            '        row("raceid") = evnt.eventId
                            '        row("starttime") = evnt.startTime
                            '        races.Rows.Add(row)
                            '    End If
                            'End If
                        End If
                    Next
                End If
            Next


The issue is this returns "5f Nov Stks", or worse just "To Be Placed". We seem to have lost the course name which is going to scupper me mightily.

I think the eventName used to look like "Uttox" or "Uttox (Place)", etc. Is it possible to get this back?

Art

[HiArt99]

Update.

I think I am getting the layout from the "Horse Racing" list as opposed to "Horse Racing - Today's Fixtures". I noticed in my code that an apostrophe has appeared.

I have also checked the "Soccer - Fixtures" list for another of my bots and this definitely seems to be returning the "Soccer" list as it appears to be returning data league by league.

I suspect "Greyhound - Today's Fixtures" to be similarly affected.

Hopefully, markets such as "Golf" where there is only 1 way to navigate remain unaffected.

[HiArt99]

I have had to bite the bullet and just walk through the "Soccer", not "Soccer Fixtures" and "Horse Racing" and not "Horse Racing - Today's card" events.

More painful and slows the bot down some during initialisation; trust a Betfair update to make things worse

Art

[BBW]

I upgraded today as well and I can confirm the same issues with the COM.

a) In sport.sport ... "Horse Racing - Todays Card" now appears as: "Horse Racing - Today's Card"

b) The data in evnt.eventName has changed - is was the venue now it is the race name. Also you cannot now use the command:
If InStr(evnt.eventName, "(") = 0 Then etc to identify UK/IRE races.

I also use the venue names - UK only. Is the data going to be returned to how it was, or how could we get the venue names for Uk racing?

Many thanks.

[BBW]

I found this response today from Mark and I think this will fix all my problems - a great spreadsheet ... Thanks - Fred


"Gary has made a COM example spreadsheet that demos every COM function and property.

You can download it here:- http://www.gruss-software.co.uk/Excel/T ... A_COM.xlsm

Regards,
Mark"

[HiArt99]

Hi BBW

I created a table with all the Betfair course names in it. (http://bdpsupport.betfair.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=2805&task=download)

I then set the row filter to the name I get from walking "Horse Racing".

If the defaultview.count > 0 then it is a UK course.

Blunt but works.

Hope that helps