OLE Automation
INTER-PROCESS COMMUNICATION MECHANISM DEVELOPED BY MICROSOFT
ActiveX Automation; COM Automation; OLE automation; OLE automation client; OLE automation controller; OLE automation server; COM automation; ActiveX automation; Activex automation; OLE client
In Microsoft Windows applications programming, OLE Automation (later renamed to simply Automation) is an inter-process communication mechanism created by Microsoft. It is based on a subset of Component Object Model (COM) that was intended for use by scripting languages – originally Visual Basic – but now is used by several languages on Windows.