Re: OLE can be a replacement of DDE ?
"Giovanni Dicanio" <giovanni.dicanio@invalid.it> wrote in message
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It seems to me that OLE is much more powerful that DDE (moreover, the term
OLE means different technologies, it is not only "Object Linking and
Embedding", it is much more).
You may read "Inside OLE" book [it seems that it was also offered on-line
in MSDN of Visual C++ 6], and find a thread about it also on the ATL group
microsoft.public.vc.atl . There is also the microsoft.public.vc.mfcole
group.
As in most things Microsoft, the later technologies that are supposedly more
powerful are so much more complex and complicated to use than the previous
ones, plus the alleged additional "power" of them is totally unused by me.
DDE has a nice string interface and is really easy. OLE is a gigantic
experiment of objects run amuk and is a disaster.
Same applies for DirectShow vs. Video for Windows vs. MCI. I lost all
interest in DirectShow when I found that you need to use COM objects in C++
to hand-build a graph in code, not to mention spending days to figure out
which renderer pin to attach the thing to! All this to snap a picture from
a WebCam which Video For Windows accomplished in a few lines of code. Not
to mention there are so many versions of DirectShow it takes a Microsoft
blogger to give the authoritative word on which version does what and when
it shipped.
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