ID Number: Q76562
1.00
WINDOWS
Summary:
Microsoft Visual Basic 1.0 for Windows can link to a number of Windows
applications through dynamic data exchange (DDE). Visual Basic can
also, through the addition of custom controls, link to other Windows
applications through object linking and embedding (OLE). Custom
controls for OLE support are provided with Microsoft Professional
Toolkit for Visual Basic, available from Microsoft End User Sales and
Service or from your nearest dealer of Microsoft products.
This information applies to Microsoft Visual Basic programming system
version 1.0 and to Microsoft Windows version 3.0 and 3.1.
More Information:
Visual Basic has built-in support for DDE. Visual Basic can link and
share information with any other Windows application that also
supports DDE.
Additional articles in this Knowledge Base discuss exactly how to
establish a DDE link between Visual Basic and the following
applications:
- Another Visual Basic application
- Microsoft Word for Windows
- Microsoft Excel for Windows
- Q+E (shipped with Microsoft Excel)
To locate these articles, query on the following words:
Visual and Basic and DDE
A Visual Basic application can also use OLE to link with any other
Windows application that supports OLE.
OLE controls are not built into Visual Basic itself, but are readily
available through the Microsoft Professional Toolkit for Visual Basic,
available from Microsoft End User Sales and Service or your nearest
Microsoft dealer.
A more challenging approach to obtain OLE support is to write your own
custom control. With the Visual Basic Control Development Kit (CDK),
along with either the Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK)
and Microsoft C or Microsoft QuickC for Windows, you can create a
custom control that supports OLE and add it to your Visual Basic
application. The Visual Basic CDK is shipped as part of Microsoft
Professional Toolkit for Microsoft Visual Basic version 1.0 for
Windows.
Below is a list of applications for Microsoft Windows and their
abilities to support DDE and/or OLE.
Product Version Supports DDE Supports OLE
------- ------- ------------ ------------
Bookshelf 1.0 No Yes
Money 1.0 No Yes
Publisher 1.0 No Yes
Visual Basic 1.0 Yes No and Yes*
Excel 3.0 Yes Yes
PowerPoint 2.0 No Yes
Project 1.0 No No
Word 1.0 Yes No
Word 2.0 Yes Yes
Works 2.0 No No
* Not built into Visual Basic itself, but is available through
Microsoft Professional Toolkit for Visual Basic or through another
Visual Basic custom control.
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