Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!netcom!wolf From: wolf@netcom.COM (Buckskin Tech.) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer Subject: Re: Any DDE experience out there? Message-ID: <1991Apr18.213549.9196@netcom.COM> Date: 18 Apr 91 21:35:49 GMT References: <1991Apr16.075505.19995@aie.uucp> Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest} Lines: 29 corne@aie.uucp (Corne Brouwers) writes: >In article bills@hutch.rabbit.com (Bill Sappington) writes: >>Does anyone out there have experience with DDE? We're going to be adding >>DDE support to our application in the near future and I'd like to get a >>handle on what other people are doing with it. I've RTFM and got some >> >>-Bill > Well, I have some experience with DDE. First of all, the articles >I read about DDE all sound great and promising, but programming DDE is not >all that easy. I use the tool Knowledge Pro to implement different kinds of >. . . > Problem with tools like Knowledge Pro, Dynacomm etc is that they all >provide a sample program where the tool is the client and MS-Exel is the server.Documentation on DDE is often poor, especially when you want to use the tool as >a server and as I've already said, they don't include any sample programs. > The sample programs and documentation included in the MS-SDK are >actually quite good. If you are going to program your applications using the >MS-SDK I think you won't meet too many problems. In the example code shipped with Borland C++ there are a couple (resonably) short routines called ddeclnt.c and ddesrvr.c, which show how to write DDE in a very general way. As for documentation, the SDK is about as good as it gets (Petzold's book has some good stuff, tho.) - Wolf BTW, this is not directed to either of the posts this post follows up. It's just general information for those looking for DDE stuff.