I have a data provider who provides a DDE link (that I can use in Excel) and an exe file that runs in the background which serves as a Data Manager (not sure if this is what called as a DDE Server)...

Question: I have a dll that I can load in another program. Now the dll has access to all data/functions in the other program. Which technology can I use that now an external program can send data/...

Connecting Excel with 'ABC' throught Excel works, connecting R with Excel by DDE works also, but how to connect R with 'ABC' application ? I have application providing DDE interface, from Excel I ...

I use TeXnicCenter for LaTeX and would like to have the DDE controls working to easily view the pdf versions. Acrobat X seems to have changed the servername and this is breaking things. I tried "Ac...

I have function implementation of DDE client using Win Api in C#. Everything works fine in case that I call DdeInitializeW and DdeConnect in single thread. Specifically, these are wrapper definitio...

I developed a MATLAB function, and I'm looking for a way to call that function from another C# application and pass some parameters to it and get the results in the C# program. I heard that I can ...

Is there a reliable way to open a specific bloomberg terminal page programmatically (e.g. "MSFT Equity")? I am open to any suggestions and code samples: Start process with path to bloomberg term...

I'm using the external java package jdde in MATLAB. Please note that for the following example, the DLL file that comes with the package needs to be on the MATLAB librarypath. The method to do this...

What is the best and easiest way to send a string from one instance of my program to another instance of my program? The receiving program has to execute a procedure, using the received string as a...

I am looking for the old DDESpy tool. Does anyone know where I could download it or something similar?

I am successfully receiving DDE data from the ThinkOrSwim trading platform into excel using this cell formula: =TOS|Last!AAPL However, when I try to connect to ThinkOrSwim DDE using the NDDE li...

I would like to be able to allow a user to enter a custom formula in a cell in Excel which will subscribe to data provided by an external .NET application. For example, the user might enter... =ge...

What is the difference between COM and OLE, if any?

I was under the impression that when you double click a file (or choose 'Open With' from the right click menu), Windows simply calls the application with the filename as the parameter. Someth...

I'm working on a stock exchange information platform and we are thinking in provide a link between our platform and home-made Excel files. The financial market is still bound to the old DDE server ...