By Steven Parker

Summary: In days of old, when programmers were bold and DDE was the ultimate tool, if one wished to limit one's application to a single instance, it was quite easy. But Microsoft has deprecated DDE, and has done its best to move programmers to other solutions. As a result, that old DDE instance-limiting code doesn't always work as expected. Unless you add a modern twist, as Steve Parker shows.

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