Vb net and excel dde

I need help figuring out a way to link a vbnet textbox or a label to a continuously changing value in an excel spreadsheet.
The value in excel is continuously being updated through a DDE link from a third party data vendor. Therefore, excel's on change event does not get triggered.
In vb6 I was able to use DDE to link a textbox to the cell in excel but since vbnet does not support DDE, I am at a loss.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks