Communicate with another instance of the same program. ( PrevInstance Handler )

Category:

Miscellaneous

Type:

Applications

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Hunter Perrin

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6

More information:

Allows a new instance of the same program to communicate with the old one. This is useful to open a document that was double clicked by the user in the old instance. This avoids having several windows of the same application in the taskbar.

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Download previnstance.zip