Automate and customize Minitab with programming (COM)

Minitab provides two type-libraries for automating and customizing Minitab. The Mtb 20.0 Type Library enables programmatic control of the Minitab application via COM. The Minitab 20.0 Addin Interface allows you to build your own "MyMenu" add-ins to Minitab via COM DLLs.

For more information on both of these libraries, see the Automation Help for COM and MyMenu which is accessible as follows:

1. Open Minitab and choose Help > Help.
2. In the Help contents pane, choose Minitab Automation from the References section.
3. On the page Minitab Automation Help, click the link Minitab Automation to launch a separate Help viewer dedicated entirely to COM and MyMenu.

To reference Minitab's type library in a VB.net project with Visual Studio, do the following:

1. Choose Project > Add Reference.
2. Click the COM tab.
3. Select the type library with the same whole number as your version of Minitab and click OK. For example, for Minitab 20 select the Mtb 20.0 Type Library.
4. After you add the reference, save the VB.net project.