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Programming Windows: COM (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and the first version of its successor, Object Linking […]

In the early 1990s, Microsoft evolved Windows to include component-based inter-process communications capabilities such as OLE Automation. This was an […]

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) brought compound document capabilities to Windows, starting in version 3.0. The post Programming Windows: OLE […]

Programming Windows: Hello, DDE (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium DDE was barely documented at first, and it was only natively supported […]

Programming Windows: BASIC Inventors Take on Gates, Microsoft (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium As noted in Programming Windows: Microsoft Basic (Premium), […]

In Programming Windows: Wintel (Premium), I described how IBM decided to enter the personal computing market in 1980 and did […]

Programming Windows: Clipboard and DDE (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) were originally derided by the tech elite, […]

Programming Windows: MFC (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium While Microsoft had supported Windows application development in Microsoft C and other compatible […]