Building Windows Front Ends to SAS Software

Building Windows Front Ends

to SAS Software

Katie Essam

Amadeus Software Limited

20th May 2003

Topics

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Introduction

What is .NET?

SAS Software¡¯s Interoperability

Communicating with SAS from

Conclusions

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Introduction

? Prior to Version 8 of SAS

¨C SAS/AF? Software

? Rich Client Interfaces

¨C SAS/IntrNet? Software

? Browser based Interfaces

? Since Version 8

¨C SAS? Integration Technologies

? Enables communication with many Industry Standard languages

including Java, C#, C++ and Visual Basic

? This paper aims to introduce some of the

techniques that can be used to access SAS

Software from Visual

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What is Microsoft¡¯s .NET Framework?

? New view of the Windows operating system

? Hundreds of classes that provide the

functionality of Windows

? Provides single approach to building

¨C Rich client applications

¨C Web client applications

? Incorporates CLR (Common Language

Runtime) so that all .NET programming

languages are equal

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What is Visual ?

? is the latest version of the Visual Basic

Language

¨C Fully Object Orientated Programming

¨C Directly comparable to other Visual Studio Languages

? From the developer¡¯s point of view

¨C Provides Rapid Application Development(RAD) tool

¨C Highly reusable code

¨C Large pool of resources

? From the user¡¯s point of view

¨C Familiar look and feel

¨C Windows applications with rich functionality

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