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Novalys PowerBuilder Newsletter - March 2008

PowerBuilder

Take Control of Your GUI
One of the biggest complaints I hear about PowerBuilder is how the applications developed with it end up looking old and outdated. {...} Unfortunate as it is, the look of the application is what gives users their first impression. An old-looking application just won't impress.
PBDJ article - By Brad Wery
We Live in Interesting Times...
That isn't, by the way, a Chinese curse. The phrase "may you live in interesting times" (which became popular after Robert Kennedy used it in a speech in 1966) probably originated from a 1950's science fiction story. Regardless of its roots though, we find ourselves living in such times.
PBDJ article - By Bruce Armstrong
Terry Snyders, CIO, Medibank Private
IT has been a long, hard slog for Terry Snyders and his team at Medibank Private. There's an acute problem in finding skilled resources for Sybase's application development tool, Powerbuilder.
Australian IT article - By Fran Foo


PowerBuilder and the Web

What's the Web-Buzz from the PowerBuilder Community?
A sign of a vibrant developer community is the active blogosphere that surrounds a technology. Here's a more or less random selection of what's being talked about in the PowerBuilder community's blogs recently
SYS.CON MEDIA article
Calling an application's window in a Web Form application
One question I'm frequently asked is, "How can I have my PowerBuilder application's windows turned into separate web pages?"...
PowerBuilder Evangelist - By Dave Fish


Visual Guard: Role Based Access Control system

Visual Guard is a Role Based Access Control System.
It adds security features to your projects:
• Manage users, memberships and roles
• Use Active Directory or database accounts for user authentication (Single Sign-On)
• Define which user has access to your application
• Grant permissions to users: what can they see or modify in your project?
• Keep track of who did what in your application (SOX, CMMI, ITIL)
• Delegate access management to end-users, with a user-friendly administration console
• Grant permissions anytime while the application is in production.

Fast and simple integration in any new or existing application.
Secure any .NET project (Winform, Webform and Webservice)

Learn more about Visual Guard
Try it now : ask for an evaluation version!


Appeon 6.0 Coming in April 2008

Appeon will release the sixth version of its flagship product - Appeon for PowerBuilder (APB) - in April 2008. APB 6.0 with PowerBuilder 11 support will enable more powerful and efficient PowerBuilder to .NET and Web deployment, while continuing Appeon's path of providing the most extensive PowerBuilder feature support on the Web. This version will also expand the platform support to run on the latest widely-used environments including Windows 2008, Windows Vista, and even Red Hat Linux. If you haven't tried Appeon yet download a free trial version from www.appeon.com or contact Appeon sales team sales@appeon.com and see how fast and powerful it is!

NEW! Enable Runtime Explorer 2.5
Automatic Source Change from Runtime


Don't miss this chance to obtain permanent use of many Rex features Yes, get to grips with your PB application by exploring it at runtime: explore objects, properties, buffers; see the effect of moving and resizing controls; export datawindows and more… absolutely no cost!
Upgrade to the Standard Edition to benefit from Enable Source Change, which takes your confirmed runtime changes and, like magic, automatically updates the relevant source code. With the Professional Edition you can actually deploy Rex with your application, under full developer control, for both technical support and review purposes.
Many plug-ins are supplied, enabling you to work efficiently at runtime. If you need more, you can even write your own… DataWindow Export has just been added!
Register now for your full-feature Trial Edition of Enable Runtime Explorer 2.5. Even if this expires, you'll still be able to use many useful Rex features until you decide to upgrade! Click here

New version of Visual Expert available soon!

Novalys launches a new version of Visual Expert that comes with new features:
• A new Project Wizard helps managing applications composed of different languages (PowerBuilder and Oracle procedures for instance) …read more
• Impact Analysis has been improved: references to a table or column are now grouped by PBL and objects, which makes large results much easier to browse. Impact Analyses are now also available for DB Views (similar to DB Tables) …read more
• DataBase Extractor (DBE) – a new utility - is installed with this new version: DBE connects to Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft Databases to export stored procedures, triggers and DataModel into text files. Visual Expert will then analyse these files.

Read more about Visual Expert
Get an evaluation version here

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The Sybase Developer Network is the place for developer information from Sybase. SDN puts you in touch with the newest technical information across Sybase products information that includes betas, strategic technical papers, tips and techniques, monthly newsletter and downloadable code samples and utilities. Best of all, that information is absolutely free. www.sybase.com/developer

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