From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM, HELO_NO_DOMAIN,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RDNS_NONE,SPOOFED_FREEMAIL_NO_RDNS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41aac74ea23fedc6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-07 05:21:12 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Gautier Write-only-address" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Communicate with data in Excel, 2nd Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 13:05:15 +0000 Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1007730362 5590 137.194.161.2 (7 Dec 2001 13:06:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 13:06:02 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Originating-IP: [194.40.39.50] X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Dec 2001 13:05:15.0673 (UTC) FILETIME=[D031E890:01C17F1F] Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:17561 Date: 2001-12-07T13:05:15+00:00 >Hi! >I thought that DDE was a technique that is about to be abandonded by MS? >In my last project we worked on getting rid of DDE and use ActiveX/OLE >instead. >Newer versions of our development tool did not support DDE anymore. Considering that even Excel 5.0a from 1993 did respond to my DDE requests, I wouldn't be surprised. OLE will be the next one and you'll have to reprogram all in XDCOM-.NET/Sgrunf2 in a couple of years. So is life... G. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp