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corne@aie.uucp (Corne Brouwers) writes:

>In article <POSTNEWS14070@hutch.rabbit.com> 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.