• Why interfacing SAS with VB.Net?
• Overview of various interface techniques
• Presentation of 2 basic techniques
• Presentation of 2 other advanced techniques

Why Interfacing VB.Net with SAS?
• SAS and VB.Net are the 2 most popular software packages
for development at Statistics Canada.
• The 2 software packages complement each other:
– SAS is excellent for large scale data processing and has a very rich function set
– VB.Net helps you develop high quality graphical interfaces.
• SAS is becoming more and more open
– Integration Technologies
– SAS 9 Architecture

Short Overview of SAS
• A suite of integrated products and solutions for information delivery:
– Data processing
– Statistical Analysis
– Reporting
– etc.
• Available on multiple platforms
• Several proprietary programming languages
• Extremely powerful for batch processing
• The runtime environment is a SAS session

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