Once upon a time I was a Visual Studio 6.0 developer, and thankfully it was a long time ago. Before last week I thought most of my day to day toolset experience from that era was left in the past where it belonged. Nonetheless I found myself adding DDE inter-process communication support to an ActiveX control written in .NET and C# last week. This means marrying Windows 3.11 era functionality with Windows 7 platforms. I doubt most developers will ever need to climb this mountain and I would not be surprised to find out I was the last man on earth. Just in case DDE lives on until the next decade though, I present you this chronicling of our experience.
In order to make a web base ...