Doing DDE from Visual Basic to Access

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From: Mark James Neal
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 16:42

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I am trying to write an application that uses Visual Basic as its
front-end and uses Access as its underlying database. I have managed 
to get Access to acknowledge that it is being talked to using:

"microsoft access|pymsmngr" 

as the LinkTopic (pymsmngr is the name of my database in access). What
I can't do is get any information back because I don't know what to use
as the LinkItem. I've tried alot of stabs in the dark, and I've even
read the Access manual, but I can't find anything to tell me what syntax
I need to use.

The error message I get is:

"Foreign application won't perform DDE action or method"...

Any help or educated guesses, or pointers as to where I can find out how
to make it work will be gratefully received!?

Help!

Mark.


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From: mjn@aber.ac.uk (Mark James Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc
Subject: Doing DDE from Visual Basic to Access
Summary: Need to know command strings
Keywords: DDE, Visual Basic, Access
Message-ID: <1993Jan12.164246.27027@aber.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:42:46 GMT
Sender: mjn@uk.ac.aber (Mark Neal)
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