1. Thierry Garrigues
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  3. Monday, 24 July 2023 15:07 PM UTC

Hi

Appeon announced that DDE server technology will be deprecated in the next major release.

What can we replace it with?

Regards

Thierry

Thierry Garrigues Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 25 July 2023 13:16 PM UTC
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Thank you for these great tips and examples.

Thierry

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Roland Smith Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Tuesday, 25 July 2023 12:11 PM UTC
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mike S Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 24 July 2023 19:01 PM UTC
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depends on what you are doing with the dde.  there is no drop-in replacement.  microsoft is trying to get rid of it.

you could simply send a message to your app when you want it to do something.  If you need to send data or instructions, you could put them into the registry and then read it in your app.  that is similar to what chris suggested in using sockets, except this method there would be no response and no follow up.

 

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Chris Pollach @Appeon Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Monday, 24 July 2023 18:06 PM UTC
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Hi Thierry;

  All Deprecated means is that they are no longer enhancing that feature but it's still there. What I did find in 2022 GA though is that only 32bit DDE worked.

   A good replacement though could be TCPIP (WinSock).

FYI: https://www.topwizprogramming.com/freecode_winsock.html

Regards ... Chris 

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  1. Andreas Mykonios
  2. Tuesday, 25 July 2023 07:02 AM UTC
Hi Chris. Of course you meant 2022 GA... :-)

Andreas.
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  1. Chris Pollach @Appeon
  2. Tuesday, 25 July 2023 11:49 AM UTC
Hi Andreas ... Yes, thanks - I corrected it. ;-)
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