Connect Business Object with ASP.NET/VB.NET

Do anybody has code/information to connect ASP.NET/VB.NET with Business Object? I just wanted to display a report made in Business object from ASP page or from window form.

U can mail me directly to goswami_ diganta@indiatimes.com

Thanks in advance. :slight_smile:


dgoswami :india: (BOB member since 2004-06-30)

First of all, this should be in the SDK forum. So I’ll move it. Please take some time to become familiar with our forum structure. ASP questions clearly belong in the SDK forum, as listed in the forum description.

Second, and this is just my opinion and not a formal BOB policy, but asking for the answer to be emailed to you is, to be blunt, somewhat rude. This forum exists as a public resource. People that come here to participate do so because they want to learn and share what they have learned. Asking someone to email you a solution violates that basic premise of a public forum for sharing.

Finally, how much harder is it to type “You” instead of “U”? Really, it’s only two additional letters. :wink:

Just a few things to keep in mind for future posts. Thanks.


Dave Rathbun :us: (BOB member since 2002-06-06)

Thanks Dave for your comments and suggestion I will keep these norms in my mind for future.


dgoswami :india: (BOB member since 2004-06-30)

Dear Dave;

I am Han Teck. I am also new to Business Object.

Currently, I had create a BO report using BO5.14. And I try to used ASP.NET to call the BO Report in order to view in Web Browser. However, I still don’t know how to use ASP.NET to call the BO report. Can you provide some guideline to me.

What are minimum software that required to view a BO report by using ASP.NET to call out the BO report?

Does it need to have Web Intelligence in order to run the BO report on web browser?

Thank you very much.

From;
Han Teck


smartteck (BOB member since 2004-03-05)

Just curious, why are you choosing to use ASP.Net-to-BO-to-DB over just straight ASP.Net-to-DB? What is the architictural/design benefit?

Regards,
Chris


cjweis (BOB member since 2003-10-02)

Dear Chris;

May be you are right, using ASP.NET to call BO - DB may not be a very good architecture design. As I know BO is one of the tools that can view the report in web browser. I think this is the main reason we using it.

For your information, we need to display our report via web browser.

Thank you very much.

From;
Han Teck


smartteck (BOB member since 2004-03-05)

There is a Web Services kit for BusObj 5 (not for 6 yet)

You can download it from the BO TechSupport site, under the SDK pages if you have licensed the SDK

For Version 6 you have to use either ASP (Classic) or JSP at the moment

HTH


Hayden_Gill :australia: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)

Dear Hayden;

Thank you Hayden. Does it mean Busines Objects Enterprise 6 still without WebIntelligence SDK and Business Objects SDK? Am I right?

Currently, I proposed to use ASP or ASP.NET to call out Business Object reports. What are the softwares that I must install instead of VB.NET 2003.

Could you provide some information about it.

Thank you very much.

From;

Han Teck


smartteck (BOB member since 2004-03-05)

No, they have an SDK. The BO SDK uses VBA.
The WebI SDK uses either JSP or ASP (Classic)

For WebI instead of using Visual Studio for ASP.Net you would use Visual InterDev 6.0 (or notepad like I do!) to create ASP pages.

Do you have a license for the SDK ? If so go to the TechSupport site and you will find all the documentation.


Hayden_Gill :australia: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)

Dear Hayden;

First of all, thank you very much. I really appreciate your good deed.

Unfortunately, I still very new to BO and my BO version also didn’t included SDK. That I am wondering how am I going to use ASP.NET to call my BO report.

For your information, that mean I can use ASP.NET to call out BO Report and display it on web browser. What others thing that I should take care as I am going to use ASP.NET to call out my BO reports?

Does this SDK need to embeded as REFERENCE as while use ASP.NET to program it? In others word, it mean we need to add it as REFERENCE into the ASP.NET before we can use it to call the BO reports. Am i right?

After we program it, we still need to compile as usual similar to what we did on other ASP.NET program? Am I right?

Could you do me the favour by showing some of the program code that used ASP or ASP.NET to call out the BO reports so that I have some ideas on it. Much much appreciate if you can guide me on this.

Thank you very much.

Cheers

From;
Han Teck


smartteck (BOB member since 2004-03-05)

FWIW

There are two seperate and distinct applications

ASP (sometimes referred to now as ASP Classic) is based on the COM architecture. BusObj have a webi SDK that uses wicom250.dll for both versions 5 and 6

ASP.Net is a completey different product, and is not compatible with ASP. It is based on the .Net architecture. BusObj did create a Web Services SDK for version 5 but afaik have not yet released one for version 6.

You cannot directly use ASP.Net with the wicom250.dll. You would have to write a com wrapper for it.

Either way, you need an SDK license to be using these SDKs.

HTH


Hayden_Gill :australia: (BOB member since 2002-08-15)