title: How to get a live price snapshot in bloomberg?
body: <p>I am looking to get a live price snapshot from Bloomberg .Net API 3 with C#.</p>
  
  <p>I can see from the samples how to get historical prices or subscribe to data, but I cannot find the correct request to get an order book snapshot, ie Bid/Ask/Last trade Price and Quantities.</p>
  
  <p>For an intraday tick I would do something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Service refDataService = d_session.GetService("//blp/refdata");
  // create intraday tick request
  Request request = refDataService.CreateRequest("IntradayTickRequest");
  // set request parameters
  request.Set("includeConditionCodes", checkBoxIncludeConditionCode.Checked);
  request.Set("includeExchangeCodes", checkBoxIncludeExchangeCode.Checked);
  Element eventTypes = request.GetElement("eventTypes");
  eventTypes.AppendValue("TRADE");
  eventTypes.AppendValue("BID");
  eventTypes.AppendValue("ASK");
  request.Set("security", d_requestSecurity);
  request.Set("startDateTime", new BDateTime(startDate.Year, startDate.Month,
               startDate.Day,startDate.Hour, startDate.Minute, startDate.Second, 0));
  request.Set("endDateTime", new BDateTime(endDate.Year, endDate.Month, endDate.Day,
               endDate.Hour, endDate.Minute, endDate.Second, 0));
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a different, live snapshot request?</p>