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[Plugin] nsisDDE : sends DDE client requests

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Wizou#

[Plugin] nsisDDE : sends DDE client requests

I have just released v1.1 of nsisDDE, my small NSIS plugin that sends DDE client requests to currently running applications with DDE server matching the "server application name / topic name" pair you provide
Web site: http://wiz0u.free.fr/prog/nsisDDE

You can typically use it to:
  • close running instances of an application (eg: to prevent EXE and DLL to be in use)
  • bring a running application to the foreground
  • have an application open a document


I use this plugin in all my professional installers to make the application exit before starting to install/uninstall a version of it.

Version 1.1 now supports Unicode NSIS installers and can make Unicode DDE requests if the application's DDE server is Unicode.