User`s guide

Building a Deployable Application
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organizational. As a general rule, when compiling many MATLAB functions, it
helps to determine a scheme of function categories and to create a separate
class for each category. The name of each class should be descriptive of what
the class does. Organizing related functions into classes in this way has the
added advantage of reducing the amount of code to rebuild and redeploy when
one function is changed.
Versions
MATLAB Excel Builder components also support a simple versioning
mechanism. A version number is attached to a given component. This number
gets automatically built into the DLL file name and the system registry
information. As a general rule, the first version of a component is 1.0 (the
default value if none is chosen). Changes made to the component before
deployment keep the same version number. After deployment, change the
version number for all subsequent changes, so that you can easily manage the
new and old versions. The system sees classes in different versions of the same
component as distinct, even if they have the same name.
Creating a Project
To begin project creation, enter the MATLAB command mxltool at the
command line. The
MATLAB Excel Builder main window appears.