Advanced PowerBuilder

OLE — Part I

The new communication standard that everyone is interested in is called Object Linking and Embedding. By using OLE, you are working at the object level to share data by either physically embedding it into a working document or simply by providing the working document with the appropriate links to the source file.

This methodology transcends software boundaries, allowing you to pass information between different applications without the need for a third party file format that both the source and the target understand.

Objectives

• The concepts behind OLE
• The differences between linking and embedding
• Difference between DDE and OLE
• OLE Control attributes
• OLE Server menus
• OLE Automation