OLE automation

OLE automation

OLE Automation is a technology developed by Microsoft that allows a component object to expose its methods through the Idispatch interface, enabling late binding of method calls. It is a functionality that enables interaction with other programs and is also known as Object Linkage Embedding (OLE) Automation.From: LabVIEW [2019], Automating computer simulation and statistical analysis in production planning and control research [2018], Enterprise Systems Integration [2019]

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Published in Rick Bitter, Taqi Mohiuddin, Matt Nawrocki, LabVIEW™ Advanced Programming Techniques, 2017

Rick Bitter, Taqi Mohiuddin, Matt Nawrocki

A document is loosely defined as a collection of data. One or more applications understand how to manipulate the set of data contained in a document. For example, Microsoft Word understands how to manipulate data contained in *.doc files and Microsoft Excel understands .xls files. There is no legitimate reason for the Word development team to design in Excel functionality so that Word users can manipulate graphs in their word documents. If they did, the execuTable file for Word would be significantly larger than it currently is. OLE automation is used to access documents that can be interpreted by other applications.

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Published in International Journal of Computers and Applications, 2018

Jeng Feng Chin, Joshua Prakash, Shahrul Kamaruddin, Melissa Chea Ling Tan

Object linkage embedding (OLE) automation is a technology developed by Microsoft to interact with other programs. The interactions require two actors: server and controller. An “OLE Automation Server” can be controlled by other programs, whereas an “OLE Automation Controller” can control other programs. Considering that Microsoft Visual Basic 6 is an “OLE Automation Controller” and WITNESS is an “OLE Automation Server,” the two software programs can interact by having the former control the latter. Similar linkage can also be established for a visual basic program to call Microsoft Excel.

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