Article: Q101318
Product(s): Microsoft Access Distribution Kit
Version(s): WINDOWS:1.1,2.0
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s): kbinterop
Last Modified: 13-JUN-2001
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Access Distribution Kit, version 1.1
- Microsoft Access Developer's Toolkit, version 2.0
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SUMMARY
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Advanced: Requires expert coding, interoperability, and multiuser skills.
Run-time applications developed with Microsoft Access have the same dynamic data
exchange (DDE) server capabilities as applications in the retail version of
Microsoft Access.
However, in order to communicate with a run-time application using DDE, you must
use the name of the .MDB file, instead of "MSACCESS" when initiating a DDE
conversation.
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The following example demonstrates how to communicate with a run-time
application developed with Microsoft Access:
1. Start Microsoft Access and open the sample database NWIND.MDB.
2. Choose the Macro button and select the Sample Autoexec macro.
3. From the File menu, choose Rename. In the Macro Name box, type "Autoexec"
(without the quotation marks), and then press ENTER.
4. Quit Microsoft Access.
5. From the File menu in Program Manager, choose Run.
6. Type "c:\access\msarn110.exe nwind.mdb" (without the quotation marks), and
then press ENTER.
7. Start Microsoft Access, and create or open a database other than NWIND.MDB.
8. Create or open a module and add the following Access Basic function:
Option Explicit
Function DDEWithNWIND ()
Dim chan
chan = DDEInitiate("NWIND", "NWIND;TABLE Employees")
MsgBox DDERequest(chan, "FirstRow")
DDETerminate chan
End Function
Note that the first argument specified in the DDEInitiate command, the
application name, is "NWIND", which is the name of the .MDB file, and not
"MSACCESS."
9. From the View menu, choose Immediate Window. Type the following line, and
then press ENTER:
? DDEWithNWIND()
Note that a message box displays the first record from the Employees table in
the NWIND.MDB database.
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Keywords : kbinterop
Technology : kbAudDeveloper kbAccessSearch kbAccessDevTK200 kbZNotKeyword3 kbAccessDistKit110
Version : WINDOWS:1.1,2.0
Hardware : x86
Issue type : kbhowto
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