The advantage of using DDE, outdated or not, is that Excel remains in control of where the data should be displayed, not the application pushing the data.
> DDE is outdated technology. Microsoft would argue with you that OLE, COM/DCOM, native C++ applications (such as Amibroker), Windows XP and anything else that's not programmed in a .NET language on Windows Vista is outdated. But we all just shrug our shoulders and say to Microsoft, "yeah, whatever", until they force a change the hard way. DDE is just a poor man's socket. True, DDE is a legacy technology, but it's a highly simple and effective one (from the end-user's standpoint). [Saying all of this, I know that I'll probably have to write my own plugin to send Amibroker data to Excel via DDE]
