actxserver for a newly installed Program.exe

I have installed a program.exe in my windows-8 system. Now I want to create a MATLAB GUI and run this program.exe within the GUI figure window. It looks to me that I will have to make use of actxserver facility as actxcontrol does not support exe
I am also given to understand that a local out-of-process server is a component implemented as an executable (EXE) file that runs in a separate process from the client application.
Now, to create an instance of a COM object, I need its programmatic identifier, or ProgID. The ProgID is a unique string defined by the component vendor to identify the COM object. You obtain a ProgID from your vendor documentation. But I do not know where to get it from.
I have two questions
1. What to do to get ProgID of all the installed exe files?
2. How do I have my MATLAB GUI play an exe file within it?
Cheers

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Hi Madhu, If you got suceeded with your question 2 i would be happy if you can share with me. Currently i am struggling with this issue.
Thanks in advance
Ahmad
Ahmad, as I commented in that other activex post, you'll be better off starting a question of your own where you show:
  • the code you have written that is causing problem,
  • a thorough description of the problem with the exact error message that you get if an error occurs.

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