If you work at one of the approximately 12,000 companies that run SAP applications on Windows servers, SAP and Microsoft's joint release of a portal development kit (PDK) for Visual Studio .Net 2003 presents a new possibility for agile application integration-assuming the SAP Enterprise Portal is an interface you want to invest in.
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The PDK (free to download now) is a presentation-layer tool that gives ASP.Net programmers access to SAP enterprise applications through the SAP Enterprise Portal. Developing a portal application with this PDK in Visual Studio .Net 2003 boils down to a set of configuration steps and writing a few lines of code in C# and Visual Basic .Net.
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