SAS can perform as an
OLE automation
server. You can use an application that can act as an OLE automation controller (such as
Visual Basic) to create a SAS session. You can control it using the methods and properties
that SAS makes available.
Many Windows applications use Visual Basic or Visual Basic for Applications as the
scripting language for automation. All examples that are provided in this document
use Visual Basic, but you can achieve the same results with any application that can
act as an OLE automation controller.