PowerBuilder
PowerBuilder History - When Did Sybase Develop PB and How Did
It Evolve?
A Canadian Perspective with an Aussie Twist?
I have been asked many times by various clients, students, and
the IT curious about PowerBuilder: When did Sybase develop the
product and how did it evolve? [...] This story is solely from
my own personal perspective and I'm sure that I may have a somewhat
distorted view of time and space (which keeps getting worse
at my age). But anyway, here is a perspective of how life (as
a DataWindow) began.
JDJ
article - By Chris Pollack
Sybase Technical Documents
Release Bulletin PowerBuilder
Desktop/Professional 11.2
Release Bulletin PowerBuilder
Enterprise 11.2
PowerBuilder 11.5
PowerBuilder 11.5 will have a number of DataWindow enhancements.
Over the next several days I will be posting some screen shots
along with descriptions of many of these new features.
PowerBuilder
Evangelist - By Dave Fish
Novalys PowerBuilder Survey 2008
The thousands of responses we received in 2007 clearly
demonstrate that PowerBuilder projects are increasingly embracing
Microsoft technology. Help us monitor these changes by completing
our 2008 survey.
You will then be able to access full 2007 results and to discover:
How PowerBuilder projects have developed between 2001 and 2007,
how large PowerBuilder projects differ from small ones in terms
of architecture, how the test of strength is going between Java
and DotNET, how many PB projects used .NET in 2007...
Take
the 2008 survey and see the 2007 results!
PowerBuilder and .NET
PowerBuilder Takes You to .NET-Preparing PowerBuilder applications
for .NET Windows Forms deployment
In June of 2007, Sybase released PowerBuilder 11. PowerBuilder
developers can now deploy PowerBuilder components as .NET Assemblies
or as .NET Web Services.[...] PowerBuilder 11 also gives its
users the ability to deploy entire applications as ASP .NET
Web Forms applications (WebForm) as well as to deploy entire
applications as .NET Windows Forms (WinForm) applications.
PBDJ
article - By John Strano
.NET Features Analyzer: Easing the .NET development
effort
[...] Although PowerBuilder's adoption of the .NET Framework
represents a great leap forward for application developers,
the implications of converting a desktop, client/server application
to an ASP.NET Web application are significant [...]
PBDJ
article - By Jim O'Neil
PowerBuilder Tips
Calling Oracle Stored Procs/Functions from PB
Whenever you want to make a call to an Oracle stored procedure
or stored function, a good approach is to first declare it as
an external function and then invoke it based on that declaration.
Blog
PowerBuilder Tips & Tricks
Using a Custom Bitmap for a PowerBuilder Window Icon
Sybase’s PowerBuilder allows you to choose an icon for
a window. However, the list includes only the .ico resources.
Menus and toolbars, which can use the bitmap resources, have
a much larger set of images in their drop-downs.
David's
blog
Visual
Expert
NEW useful features: DW exploration, Database Extractor...
Visual Expert is always being improved with more new handy features!
• Shared Datawindows: you can list DataObjects calling
each other with the "ShareData" method. Such DataWindows
have similar data descriptions and different presentation layers…read
more
• Datawindows with expressions: you can find DWs with
attributes defined with an expression…read
more
• DataBase Extractor (DBE): This new utility is installed
with Visual Expert.
DBE connects to Oracle, Sybase ASE and SQL Server to export
stored procedures, triggers and DataModel into text files. Visual
Expert will then analyse these files...read
more
Read more about Visual Expert
Get
an evaluation version here
Visual
Guard for .NET
Mike James discovers that adding security to an application
can be remarkably easy
Application security is such a problem that most developers
prefer to ignore it. If ignoring it is impossible then we often
implement a custom solution with user lists and passwords, or
we simply expect the user control provided by the operating
system to do the job. What we generally end up with is something
that might appear to do the job but which is in practice nearly
impossible to administer and quite impossible to validate. Visual
Guard for .NET puts an end to this shoddy approach to security
by making it trivial to implement and by providing good administration
tools, and it works for both desktop applications and ASP.NET
websites.
VSJ magazine article - By Mike James - Read the article
Discover
Visual Guard - Get
an evalution version for PowerBuilder - For
.NET
Enable
Runtime Explorer with Automatic Source Change
Presenting the runtime-driven development cycle
Application development and maintenance require frequent iterations
between design time and runtime. This process is necessarily
time-consuming, imprecise, and somewhat frustrating. True, this
is a characteristic of RAD environments...but isn't there a
better way?
Runtime-driven development represents a step in the right direction.
This article talks about Enable Runtime Explorer (Rex) and shows
how a new development cycle can benefit the daily activities
of PowerBuilder developers.
Nb: Enable Development has just announced that Rex 2.5 is now
fully compatible with the new PowerBuilder version 11.2!
PBDJ article - By Gian Luca De Bonis
Request
an evaluation version
Enable
makes your PB applications multilingual in 2 hours!
What do you do if suddenly your application has to be used in
several languages (Spanish, Chinese, English, French, Italian...)?
You translate it of course, but how? By using Enable for PB,
for instance!
With Enable:
• Monolingual PowerBuilder programs are transformed with
just a few changes to the original code.
• All properties of all controls are covered, as well
as every type and style of DataWindow and MessageBox.
Even the most complex software can be localized: nested tabfolders,
parametric messages and computed fields!
• Adding new languages or altering translated text is
easy.
Just update the multilingual database: no further changes are
needed to the source or executable codes.
• Your software becomes ready for distribution, with its
own language database and the royalty-free Enable engine (various
. dll and .pbd files), in a matter of hours!
• Reports can be translated and printed in several languages
simultaneously, even without changing the user interface.
Read more about Enable
Get
Enable's demo application here !
TechWave
Registration is now open !
Join us Aug. 4 - 8 at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino in
Las Vega, Nev., for the 10th Annual Sybase User Training and
Solutions Conference. TechWave brings together IT professionals
from around the world. It is the one place to meet the experts,
hear first hand what's new and network with thousands of industry
professionals like yourself.
Nowhere else can you find such a large offering of technical
training sessions and networking opportunities to help you achieve
your annual goals while saving thousands on your annual training
and travel budgets.
Visit
www.sybase.com/techwave
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