looking for some DDE notes.......

[david79]

Hello everyone,

Would anybody know where I could find some DDE notes? I have the labview Basic I &II, and the intermediate book, but no explanations on how to use the DDE VIs.

Thanks a lot,

David

[LuI]

David,

try googling a bit.

I'd not suggest _starting_ with DDE at this point, unless really necessary.
It is a rather old technology, if not to say nearly obsolete.
DDE means dynamic data exchange and was introduced several (>10?) years ago, maybe in Win3.1x or W95.
It still works with several SW, but support might fade away sooner or later.

In order to perform DDE-based actions you need to know the DDE commands and syntax of the SW you need to interact with.

Greetings from Germany!<br>-- <br>Uwe

[Dennis_Knutson]

I agree. It's pretty hard to find anything on this anymore since Microsoft replaced it with ActiveX and .NET. The functions aren't even on the LabVIEW palette anymore. There is of course, the two shipping examples that send and recieve data from Excel and there are more at http://zone.ni.com/devzone/devzone.nsf/webcategories/B7AA6C07A04F6A708625683C000023F6. If you have a specific need, what's it for? Posting such a question to the LabVIEW forum would get you more responses.

Message Edited by Dennis Knutson on 07-13-2005 08:39 AM