DDE / Anyone??? Anyone?? Anyone?

Question

Hey gang I realize the DDE is no longer supported in the .NET environment but I could really use some help here. I have an application that is currently writen in VB 6 that uses DDE to communicate with a 2nd application. I now am working on the latest version of this application which is writen in C#. I need to be able to maintain the same communication I currently have in the VB 6 application. Can someone please let me know what options I have available to me to use DDE in C#? Can you direct me to any code examples??? Thank you Bob

sjones · Answer

I assume your reluctance to move away from DDE is because you do not have control over the 2nd app and therefore you are stuck with it. I would suggest you pull the communications routines from your current app and wrap them into a COM DLL still in VB 6. Then you basically just write a passthrough interface for your C# app. It's very similar to what we had to do when moving to 32bit apps that still needed to talk to 16bit code. If it were me though I would seriously consider just sticking with VB 6 for the whole thing.

pseudobill2004 · Answer

.... tumbleweeds blowing across the screen ... (now's about the time to finally move on from DDE)