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A SAS® blog for the rest of us![How to build a correlations matrix heat map with SAS](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2013/06/va_corrmatrix.png)
If you've watched any of the demos for SAS Visual Analytics (or even tried it yourself!), you have probably seen this nifty exploration of multiple measures. It's a way to look at how multiple measures are correlated with one another, using a diagonal heat map chart. The "stronger" the color
![Build your own SAS client app with Microsoft .NET](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2013/06/vsref.png)
As part of my follow-up to SAS Global Forum 2013, I've posted a few articles about how to create your own client apps with SAS Integration Technologies. This article shows how to use Microsoft .NET -- the same approach used for SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Add-In for Microsoft Office
![How to find the ENGINE name for a SAS library](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2017/02/ProgrammingTips-4.png)
One of the great things about SAS libraries is that you can write your programs to read and write data without having to worry about where the data lives. SAS data set on a file system? Oracle table in a database server? Hadoop data in Hive? For many SAS applications,
![Export and download any file from SAS Enterprise Guide](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2013/05/copyfiles_example.png)
Last week I alluded to some very useful applications of the Copy Files task. This is one of them. If you have SAS Enterprise Guide 7.13 or later, the Copy Files task is in the Tasks->Data menu. In earlier versions, you'll have to download/install the task as a custom task.
![Special steps for installing the custom tasks that you download](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2013/05/unblock.png)
Recent versions of SAS Enterprise Guide (version 5.1 and later) use Microsoft .NET 4.0, which enforces additional security requirements before running custom task DLLs that you download from the Web, including those that you download from support.sas.com. Because these task DLLs are downloaded from the (big and scary) Internet, the
![An FTP-style task in SAS Enterprise Guide: user-driven fixes](https://blogs.sas.com/content/sasdummy/files/2013/05/deltachar.png)
A few months ago I released the Copy Files task for use with SAS Enterprise Guide. The task allows you to transfer any files between your PC and a SAS Workspace session, much like an FTP process. It doesn't rely on FTP though; it uses a combination of SAS code,