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Re: TWS via netDDE?



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Have you used their sample DDE excel sheet?
By netDDE, do you mean to a different computer on your network or on the
machine that TWS is running on?
No problem if on same pc.
But I have *never* been able to get real-time data to another machine.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Justin Fanning" <Justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2004 3:24 PM
Subject: TWS via netDDE?


>
> Can anyone who has used TWS via netDDE on Win XP
> (or 2k/NT) tell me how they did it?
>
> I have created ddeshare entries for
> edemo, edemo|* and edemo$ in both DDE shares
> and trusted shares, but I can't get Excel to
> connect via netDDE to TWS.
>
> I've tried using \\computername\edemo,
> I keep getting Invalid Name errors with Excel.
> \\ip.ip.ip.ip\edemo gives me a Value not available
> error.
>
> I saw some stuff saying to use
> \\computername\ndde$/edemo but that just gives
> me VB/Excel errors.
>
> Thanks guys,
>
>
> Justin
>
>
>