DdeLink class

Office 2013 and later

DDE Connection. When the object is serialized out as xml, its qualified name is x:ddeLink.

Namespace:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml.Spreadsheet
Assembly:  DocumentFormat.OpenXml (in DocumentFormat.OpenXml.dll)

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[ISO/IEC 29500-1 1st Edition]

ddeLink (DDE Connection)

This element represents a connection to an external Dynamic Data Exchange () server. is a method of sending data between applications using Windows messages according to a documented protocol that has been stable since about 1990.

The hierarchy of names defined by a server is Application, Topics, and Items. Topics often correspond to units such as files or documents or database names, and Items refer to subsets of the data such as cell ranges, rows, fields, columns. items can have multiple values as well.

[Example:

Data connectivity can use a number of different technologies.The following is just one example of a spreadsheetML fragment describing the product Microsoft Excel being used as a server to provide data to the current spreadsheet document:

<ddeLink xmlns:r="…" ddeService="excel" ddeTopic="[ddesource.xls]Sheet1">
  <ddeItems>
    <ddeItem name="R1C1" advise="1"/>
    <ddeItem name="StdDocumentName" ole="1" advise="1"/>
  </ddeItems>
</ddeLink>

end example]

Parent Elements

externalLink (§18.14.8)

Child Elements

Subclause

ddeItems (DDE Items Collection)

§18.14.3

Attributes

Description

ddeService (Service name)

Service name (i.e., application name) for the connection. This is a required attribute.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_Xstring simple type (§22.9.2.19).

ddeTopic (Topic for DDE server)

Describes something for the application to which the channel pertains— usually a document of that application. This is a required attribute.

The possible values for this attribute are defined by the ST_Xstring simple type (§22.9.2.19).

[Note: The W3C XML Schema definition of this element’s content model (CT_DdeLink) is located in §A.2. end note]

© ISO/IEC29500: 2008.

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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