General Techniques

After you package and install a COM component, you can access the component in any program that supports COM, such as Microsoft^® Visual Basic^®, Microsoft Visual C++^®, or Visual C#.

Your code module must do the following:

Load the components created by the compiler
- Register and Reference Utility Library
Call methods of the component class
Deal with data conversion and parameter passing
Process errors
- Handle Errors During a Method Call

Note

These topics provide general information on how to integrate COM components created with the compiler into your COM-compliant programs. The presentation focuses on the special programming techniques needed for components based on the MATLAB^® product and generated by the compiler. It assumes that you have a working knowledge of the programming language used in these programs.

For information about programming with COM objects in Microsoft Visual Studio^®, see articles in the MSDN Library, such as Calling COM Components from .NET Clients.