《EViews COM Automation》.pdfVIP

EViews COM Automation MARCH 10, 2015 EViews COM Automation allows an external program or script to launch and control EViews programmatically and to transfer data back and forth. This allows you to use much of the functionality of EViews within your own programs without having to display the EViews window itself. Licensing Restrictions EViews COM Automation is available for both Standard and Enterprise Editions. Web server access to EViews via COM is not allowed. When being run by other windows services or being run remotely via Distributed COM, EViews will limit COM access to a single instance. Please contact IHS if you have any questions regarding your license. Local Registration of EViews COM Automation In order to control and use EViews via COM, you must first verify that EViews COM Automation is properly registered on your local machine. By default, our EViews installer performs this necessary registration step for you. To verify and perform proper registration, launch EViews and type in the command: REGCOMPONENTS This will bring up the Register Components dialog. This dialog lists all EViews items that need to be registered on your local machine in order for those features to work properly. “COM Automation OLE” appears first in the list and also displays whether or not it was been properly registered. If this item does not say “Registered”, please click the “Yes (All)” button to perform a full re-registration. You will need to have local admin rights to perform this step. Adding a Reference to the EViews Type Library The next step is to add a reference to the EViews Type Library to your development project. This allows your development environment to be aware of the various EViews COM objects and their methods. In this document we’ll describe in detail how to use and control EViews from a Visual Studio 2012 VB.NET project and from an Office VBA project (such as Excel 2013) -- but these instructions apply simil