by Stephen (1 Submission)
Category: DDE
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Intermediate
Originally Published: Tue 14th March 2017
Date Added: Tue 9th February 2021
Rating: 
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Need to communicate between two or more .EXE apps, then this is one easy way to do it. Just include the frmDDEClient in your main app and frmDDEServer in your other app and hook up the code properties and Event of those forms in their respective app. DDE Communications is built into VB6 and this sample code provided here shows how to do probably all of what you want to do. There are two apps included: The Main or Client app and the Server App (some like to call it Source but to me that is confusing). My naming convention may fly in the face of other Internet information but this is how I see it. You must compile the Server app to use it. You can run the Client app in the IDE or compile it and run it as an .EXE. I hopefully commented this source code sufficiently so that it can be understandable to even the newbie. All the stuff I have found on the Internet is way too vague about how each Link parameter relates to either the Client or the Server. Hope this submission clears it up.
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