Hi Ciaran,
We suggest you can visit our MSDN support web site first:
Using Network DDE
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/us
ing_network_dde.asp
INFO: How to Use DDE in Visual Basic to Communicate with Other Windows
Programs
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;189498
Thanks for your understanding!
Best regards,
Gary Chang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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Hi Ciaran,
Since .NET framework did not support DDE, we may need to wrap the DDE api
with managed code.
Here are two threads, you may take a look.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=zh-CN&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=7CBDECEE-B838-
4276-94C7-7B63BFA653D4%40microsoft.com&rnum=35&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DDDE%2B%2Bg
roup:*.dotnet.*%26hl%3Dzh-CN%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26start%3D30%26sa%3DN
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=zh-CN&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=OZOVKcTrBHA.21
68%40tkmsftngp04&rnum=13&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DDDE%2B%2Bgroup:*.dotnet.*%26hl%3
Dzh-CN%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26start%3D10%26sa%3DN
Best regards,
Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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"Peter Huang" - 01 Sep 2004 04:11 GMT
Hi Ciaran,
If you still have any concern on this issue, please feel free to post here.
Best regards,
Peter Huang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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