In ABL, the first step to access a COM object is to obtain its component handle. Once you have the component handle, you can use it to access properties and methods supported by the COM object. To support these property and method references, ABL also provides automatic mappings between COM data types and ABL data types. This allows you to pass COM object property, method, and event parameter values directly as ABL data items without the need for data conversion functions.

For more information on accessing COM object properties and methods, see UsingCOM Objects in ABL.