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COM/DCOM and OLE Automation
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Talking to a VFP exe using a com dll
I have a VFP exe running with a visual presentation of records in a grid. This particular screen is a visual class. A separate exe(not VFP) will run a vfp com dll to update the records in the table the exe is displaying in the grid. How can I also have this dll refresh the screen in the original vfp exe.
In other words; can this com dll talk to the exe that is already running? I'm new to this com process and am wondering if I can do this. I can't re-write this entire VFP app in the amount of time given but am planning on pulling some of the non-visual code out into dll's that other programs in this suite can use. However I need to be able to still talk to the original VFP exe in some fashion that will also be running. Is there some way of doing this without using DDE?
Confusing, isn't it?
Any help would be much appreciated.
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