MSN Messenger and DDE links

[z]

Hello,
I am currently learing Visual Basic, and I have a specific task in mind I
would like to achieve, but am getting a bit lost.

I use MSN Messenger to communicate with friends. You type the dialogue, hit
enter, and it all appears in the dialogue window. Fine. But there are times
when we need to be aware of the time of day, so what I want to do is code a
VB program which will create the required string, and using DDE (or some
other method) to insert that string into my side of MSN Messenger.

The first thing im stuck on, is not knowing what the class names are for the
various link properties I need to connect with. Does anyone know how I can
find this information on my PC please?

Many thanks

[Cor]

Hi z,

I am currently learing Visual Basic, and I have a specific task in mind I
would like to achieve, but am getting a bit lost.

I use MSN Messenger to communicate with friends. You type the dialogue, hit enter, and it all appears in the dialogue window. Fine. But there are times when we need to be aware of the time of day, so what I want to do is code a VB program which will create the required string, and using DDE (or some
other method) to insert that string into my side of MSN Messenger.

I can only give one advice, take another project, this is one were at the
moment very much the security is focussed on.

I think that it will for a lot of expirienced VB prgrammers a hell of a job
to do what you want to do.

Cor

[Jan]

Hi Z,

As far as I know VB.NET does not support DDE anymore. If you really want
DDE you'll have to use VB6.

Regards,
Jan

"z" <no***********@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
I am currently learing Visual Basic, and I have a specific task in mind I
would like to achieve, but am getting a bit lost.

I use MSN Messenger to communicate with friends. You type the dialogue, hit enter, and it all appears in the dialogue window. Fine. But there are times when we need to be aware of the time of day, so what I want to do is code a VB program which will create the required string, and using DDE (or some
other method) to insert that string into my side of MSN Messenger.

The first thing im stuck on, is not knowing what the class names are for the various link properties I need to connect with. Does anyone know how I can
find this information on my PC please?

Many thanks

[z]

"Jan" <ms****@tss.be> wrote in message
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Hi Z,

As far as I know VB.NET does not support DDE anymore. If you really want
DDE you'll have to use VB6.

Thanks for the replies. What I have opted to do, and got it working, is to
use a scripting utility called Autoit. It works, though not as slick as I
would have liked. But adequate.

Thanks again.

[z]

Hello again.
I took the opportunity to ask the MSN Messenger online help folks about my
problem, and here is there reply. I'm quite chuffed about it.

Thank you for writing to MSN Messenger service.

We appreciate your suggestions and feedback. I think a VB program code is a
good idea and will greatly improve our service. I'm including this in the
list of feature request so that the Production Team can evaluate this for
the next release.

For additional online help, please go to:
http://messenger.msn.com/Help/

Sincerely,

Reiden
MSN Messenger Support