Using a VB-6 app to connect to BOE-XI (R2) - SDK?

[former_member183781]

I'm pretty sure the answer is NO, but I wanted to post it here for confirmation.

We have a large legacy VB-6 application that uses RAS-9 for reporting.

The version 9 tools are no longer supported by Crystal/BOBJ - and we have an existing BOE-XI (R2) Premium infrastructure that is used by all our newer .NET applications.

Is there a supported method of updating our large legacy VB-6 application to use the BOE-XI (R2) Premium infrastructure for reporting instead of RAS-9 that does not include redeveloping the VB-6 application into .Net...?

Thanks in advance for the advice!

[robert_horne · Accepted solution]

Although it is depricate there is a RAS COM SDK that comes with XI R2.

So essentially you could use the same code except for the part about where you get the report. In your old code you would open the report from file system.

In the new BOE system you would query the CMS for the report. After that the RAS code would pretty much stay the same.

http://developerlibrary.businessobjects.com for more info on the COM BOE SDK. You will also notice the COM RAS SDK.

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