I have a legacy application that I'm trying to interact with from a browser. The only supported method from the application vendor is by using a DDEPoke request. I'm having difficulty figuring out a simple way to perform such a request from a browser. I am open to any particular technology, be it javascript, a browser plugin, ActiveX/...
I've created an add-in and installed it, but now when I open Excel I get an error pop-up telling me that the add-in file is a security risk and that automatic updating of links is disabled. I've looked it up and it refers to the Windows DDE protocol, but what does that have to do with this add-in? Does anyone know what's happening behin...
Hello I've looked at the queries on SO that pertain to similar errors - but haven't found anything so far, to help with this particular problem I am having with an orcascript which I am running under Powerbuilder9.0. The orca script connects to an SCC service provider, does a full target refresh, and then is supposed to build the exe. ...
I'm facing a problem with a MS Word DDE Automation controlled by our CRM system. The setup Base for the document created is a Word .dot template which fires a macro on Document.New. Inside this macro I create a .Net component registered for COM. Set myCOMObject = CreateObject("MyCOMObject") The component pulls some data from a datab...
I have WCF service hosted in console app. Service tries to connect to opened windows application via DDE protocol. No luck. Where is the problem? Console app is running in my account, as the dde windows app. ...
I would like to use NETDDE in .net 2.0, but I am having a difficult time getting started. I am looking for a few pointers. thanks ...
Hello, I am using NDde for DDE transactions. I am trying to create multiple instances of DdeClient using threads. For this example, we will assume there is 3 threads. If I try it with a single thread, it works. But anything more than 2 returns me an error whereby it failed to initiate an advise loop. The question is why would it not wo...
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 terminal executable and ticker in the arguments Bloomberg API DDE COM Automation SendKeys (can be blocked by some antivirus software) ... Many t...
hey all, i use old outsource application which create a DDE server, i've built a code that link to that DDE server and Lunch it to other server (worked fine). now, its can't connect to the DDE server any more, i've check with Excel file on the same Server and its worked fine, i didn't change anything in the code in the server transfer,...
Hello, theres I use NDde to create a DDE Server to support EXCEL client, U use a timer to set item's value in the server periodically, why Excel not change automatically when the item value changed ? But the first time the data will display when I input App|Topic!'item' in the cell Why ? any idea ? Regards, agichen ...
I'm trying to find a way to do the equivalent of comm = window.event.srcElement._command; if(comm){ xlApp = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application"); var app = xlApp.DDEInititate(".....", "...."); xlApp.DDEExecute(app,comm); xlApp.DDETerminate(app); app = ""; xlApp.Quit(); } without the use of an activeX object. ...
Hi All, I'm writing an application, which becomes "useful" once user is browsing certain url. I want to add feature to my application, that it will be automatically launched once user browses this url, I was thinking of writing some sort of watchdog to trigger it. My question is, whether there is a generic way to get notified when use...