Calling a method in acrobat plugin as COM obj method

Hi all,
I want to call a method from my acrobat plugin as a COM objects method. Can i import i.e. add reference of plugin and call the perticular method which accepts two PDDoc parameters. For this I can use any platform (JS, C#, VB.net or anything). Please help me out.

Consider I have exported the below plugin method via COM as Irosenth mentioned above, will I be able to see the highlighting happening visually in the PDF document which is currently active when I call this COM method from my C# Winform application?
Also consider I have the Adobe Reader plugin license, will this functionality work in Reader?
static ACCB1 void ACCB2 HighlightWord(void *data)
    DURING
    //Create a HiliteEntry object and set its attributes
    HiliteEntry hilite;
    hilite.offset = 3;
    hilite.length = 1;
     //Get the page number of the current page view
    AVDoc currentAVDoc = AVAppGetActiveDoc();
    PDDoc currentPDDoc = AVDocGetPDDoc(currentAVDoc);
    AVPageView currentPageView = AVDocGetPageView(currentAVDoc);
    ASInt32 pageNum = AVPageViewGetPageNum(currentPageView);
    //Highlight the tenth word
    PDPage pdPage = PDDocAcquirePage (currentPDDoc, pageNum);
    PDTextSelect textSelection = PDTextSelectCreateWordHilite(pdPage, &hilite, 1);
    AVDocSetSelection(currentAVDoc, ASAtomFromString("Text"), (void *)textSelection, true);
    AVDocShowSelection (currentAVDoc);
    PDPageRelease (pdPage);
    HANDLER
        AVAlertNote("Error highlighting word");
    END_HANDLER

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