[AccessD] What is this?

Obviously, I don't really know this stuff, but it is really interesting.

I wonder if DDE is simply diving into the message stream in the same
way that COM has a somewhat eager look-ahead registry resolution
of types, etc - the same thing the happens in Visual Studio'sError
List/Warnings/Messages window.

Hmm. I'm going to have to look into this when I get some time.

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Michael R Mattys
MapPoint and Database Dev
www.mattysconsulting.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving" 
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:15 AM
Subject: [AccessD] What is this?


>I just found code that does the TransferText in a completely different way. 
>I have never seen a
> text control use these properties and methods.  Is this something new in 
> 2007 or does this go back
> to some previous version?  What is the advantage of this over the normal 
> TransferText?
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/113905
>
>    Sub Command1_Click ()
>       Dim cmd As String      ' Holds DDEExecute command.
>       On Error GoTo DDEerr   ' Error trap.
>
>       ' Make sure there isn't an existing DDE conversation:
>       text1.LinkMode = 0
>
>       ' Set up the DDE link:
>       text1.LinkTopic = "MSACCESS|C:\ACCESS\NWIND.MDB"
>       text1.LinkItem = "All"
>       text1.LinkMode = 2
>
>       ' DDEExecute command to import text file into Microsoft Access 
> Table:
>       cmd = "[TransferText ,,'Shippers','C:\ACCESS\SHIPPERS.TXT']"
>
>       ' Execute the TransferText command and close the DDE link:
>       text1.LinkExecute cmd
>       text1.LinkMode = 0
>       MsgBox "Transfer OK"
>       Exit Sub
>
>    DDEerr:
>       ' An error has occurred.
>       MsgBox Error
>       MsgBox "Error in transfer."
>       Exit Sub
>    End Sub
>
>
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