Other Information Sources

In addition to SAS Guide to Applications Development, you might rely on other information sources to help you design, develop, and implement applications:

• Getting Started with SAS/EIS, an online tutorial available within SAS/EIS software, provides a step-by-step instructions to show you how to complete the basic tasks that are necessary to build a simple Enterprise Information System (EIS).

• SAS Component Language: Reference provides detailed reference information about the statements, functions, and other elements of SCL.

• The SAS online Help provides extensive task-based assistance for working with the interactive development environments of both SAS/EIS and SAS/AF software. In addition, the Help system provides a complete Component Reference, enabling you to quickly retrieve class and property information such as attribute metadata or method code.

The SAS applications development environment provides extensive online Help that is designed to facilitate applications development. You can access Help in both SAS/AF and SAS/EIS software in one of the following ways for Version 8:

• Select Help  SAS System Help and navigate to either the "Using SAS/EIS Software" topic or the "Using SAS/AF Software" topic.

• Select Help  Using This Window in any window.

• Enter help topic on the command line, where topic is the item for which you want help.

• Select Help on Class or Help on Property from the pop-up menu in the Build, Properties, and Components windows to view class and property information.

For Version 9 and beyond, you can access Help in both SAS/AF and SAS/EIS software in one of the following ways:

• Select Help  SAS Help and Documentation and navigate to either the "Using SAS/EIS Software" topic or the "Using SAS/AF Software" topic.

• Select Help  Using This Window in any window.

• Enter help topic on the command line, where topic is the item for which you want help.

• Select Help on Class or Help on Property from the pop-up menu in the Build, Properties, and Components windows to view class and property information.

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