I am in the process of devising a scheme to fire messages between two 

applications sharing a common Access database. A Visual Basic app will 

write the database and then fire an event so that the C++ application 

(MFC) will handle this as notification that new information is available. 

It is even prefered to transfer some data as well. The twist is that it 

must work over a LAN. :)

Any ideas out there?

Use IP messaging.  If the two applications exist on two different computers

you would need to know each computer's IP address, or if you don't you could

use a IP Broadcast address.



If the applications exist on the same computer look at usinf DDE.



Regards

Steve Wark



-----Original Message-----

From: Tom Bellavia [mailto:tbellavia@v...]

Sent: Wednesday, 11 July 2001 6:27 PM

To: ActiveX_Data_Objects

Subject: [activex_data_objects] Event handlers between two applications

using ADO...





I am in the process of devising a scheme to fire messages between two

applications sharing a common Access database. A Visual Basic app will

write the database and then fire an event so that the C++ application

(MFC) will handle this as notification that new information is available.

It is even prefered to transfer some data as well. The twist is that it

must work over a LAN. :)

Any ideas out there?