Date:         Fri, 3 Feb 2006 12:35:16 -0800
Reply-To:     "Pardee, Roy" <pardee.r@GHC.ORG>
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From:         "Pardee, Roy" <pardee.r@GHC.ORG>
Subject:      Re: SAS and DOT NET
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FWIW--here's how I'm doing it from an asp.net app:

   Private Function RunSasProgram(ByVal ProgName As String) As String
      Dim BaseName As String =
System.IO.Path.Combine(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(ProgName),
System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(ProgName))
      Dim si As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
      Const DQ As String = """"
      With si
         .FileName = ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("SASExe")
         .Arguments = "-sysin " & DQ & BaseName & ".sas" & DQ _
                  & " -log   " & DQ & BaseName & ".log" & DQ _
                  & " -print " & DQ & BaseName & ".lst" & DQ _
                  & " -emailsys smtp " _
                  & " -emailhost  " &
ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("SMTPServer")
      End With
      System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(si)
      Return "Congratulations--SAS Program """ &
System.IO.Path.GetFileName(ProgName) & """ has been generated and
submitted.  You should see results in your e-mail inbox within a couple
of hours."
   End Function

Non-linebreak-damaged version here:
http://rafb.net/paste/results/AnxoIg40.html

Very pedestrian, but hey--it's working...

-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
David
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 1:35 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: SAS and DOT NET


> Can we have the front end on .NET and back
> end on SA?.

According to the SAS manual: "SAS can perform as an OLE automation
server. This means that you can use an application that can act as an
OLE automation controller (such as Visual Basic) to create a SAS session
and control it using the methods and properties that SAS makes
available."

I've never tried it, but I can't see why you couldn't call SAS from VB
or C#.  That doesn't make it a .NET application though, and you can't
compile SAS to the IL.  (I really hope than one day someone will find a
way to make everything target the same VM and be able to call each
others libraries).