MATLAB Builder EX

for Microsoft Excel

Building and Packaging Components

You use the high-level, matrix-optimized MATLAB language and built-in math, graphics, and data analysis functions to prototype, develop, and test your application. To protect your intellectual property, the builder encrypts MATLAB code and wraps it as a COM object. This COM object can be accessed only from Excel, as a macro or add-in. You can also modify the original code in MATLAB and then rebuild and redeploy the component.

The Deployment Tool is the MATLAB Compiler graphical user interface. You use it to build a MATLAB application into an Excel add-in and package the add-in for deployment. You can:

• Create a new project to build an Excel add-in
• Add MATLAB code and MEX-files to serve as externally visible methods of your Excel add-in
• Set properties for building and packaging
• Save the project
• Build the component
• Test, edit, and rebuild as necessary
• Package the component and the MCR (optional) for distribution to programmers or end users

Using the Deployment Tool to create an Excel add-in from a MATLAB program that forecasts energy.