From PowerBuilder Classic to .NET to mobile, we've seen a lot of changes over the past year. 2011 is looking to be another lively one. Keep up to date with all the latest news from the PB community below...

Upcoming events on PowerBuilderTV

If you're looking for information on PowerBuilder, you've come to the right place! PowerBuilderTV is with you throughout the spring, bringing you webinars to enhance your PowerBuilder experience. From the latest PB release to the fastest web deployment tool, we've got information on it all.
See the full schedule, or catch up on past webinars.

Upcoming Webinars:

• Modernize your PowerBuilder applications - Tues. March 15th at 12pm EST
  Do you want to bring your legacy PowerBuilder applications up to date?
  In this webinar we’ll show you solutions to simply and effectively add innovative features, such as deploying your application on the web, renovating the user interface, reusing Windows Accounts, providing multilingual features, and more…
  You’ll come away ready to give your applications a facelift!
  Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
  Register Now
• Dockable Windows - Tues. March 29th at 12pm EST
  Dock'em, tab'em, float'em, pull'em onto multiple monitors! On March 29th, see yet one more way you can benefit from PowerBuilder 12 and WPF.
  Join John Strano to see how you and your team can take advantage of dockable windows to enhance the UX of your PowerBuilder applications.
  Presenter: John Strano
  Register Now
• Take your commercial applications to the next level - Thurs. April 14th at 11am EST
  During this webcast, you will see how to evolve your commercial applications and win new clients:
  secure your SaaS applications, make your application customizable by your clients, protect your source code against reverse engineering, and support multiple languages to open new markets.
  Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
  Register Now

PowerBuilder Worldwide Survey 2010: The results are in!

The annual Novalys Powerbuilder survey results are in. Thanks to the participation of the community of PB developers, we've got a look at the trends. Not only did we look at the current use of PowerBuilder but we also analyzed the impact of Java and .NET on PowerBuilder users. Java/JEE technology has been used widely for many years but Microsoft uses all its marketing power to impose its platform, rallying the Sybase capabilities to its cause…

What are the most awaited developments of PB? What proportion of PB teams adopted .NET technology in 2010? Who’s still using PB5? Who has moved to PB12? Where do you fit in?
Take the 2011 PowerBuilder survey and see the results from 2010!

Looking for more information on PowerBuilder?

Where Do You Go for PowerBuilder Info?
I've had a number of requests from people in the last few days wondering how to get up to speed with more recent versions of PowerBuilder. So I thought I'd try to address some of those concerns by gathering together all of the knowledge sources I know of and would recommend to learn more about newer versions of PowerBuilder.
PBDJ article, by Bruce Armstrong

What’s New in PowerBuilder 12.1?
The PowerBuilder 12.1 maintenance release is now available. For people who believe that you should never use the .0 release of any product, the maintenance release means they should feel comfortable using PowerBuilder 12 now. However, there are several good reasons other than that to get the maintenance release, including a number of important new features it introduces. We'll look at the important ones below.
PBDJ article, by Bruce Armstrong

Sybase Webcast: Fun with the PowerBuilder .NET Debugger
Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
Join PowerBuilder Rockstar, John Strano, as he demonstrates how to use the PowerBuilder .NET Debugger in the Visual Studio Isolated Shell.
Click here to register

Visual Guard now supports multi-tenant applications!

Are your applications used simultaneously by independent groups of users (clients, partners, subsidiaries…)?

Visual Guard now supports multi-tenant applications, where a single instance of the application runs on a server, is used by multiple client organizations (or sets of users) and each client manages their data and security independently from the others.

Create independent groups of users, limit the privileges of an administrator to a single group, and provide administrators with a web interface to manage the security of their group.
Learn more about securing multi-tenant applications with Visual Guard

About Visual Guard: Combine Authentication and Permissions in a single tool. Visual Guard adds authentication and permission features to any application built with PowerBuilder, .NET, Java, etc...
www.visual-guard.com

Tips from developers like you

Refactoring Corner: Partitioning DataWindow Technology
A well-partitioned application will open the way for future code migration to other GUI platforms. One of the main goals of PowerBuilder Classic application refactoring is to divide the code into logical partitions. Although you will likely not gain significant performance increases in exchange for your efforts, you will achieve two other highly significant gains. This article explains those two goals.
PBDJ article, by Yakov Werde

Service-Based Architecture for the DataWindow
Service objects were introduced for PowerBuilder at about the same time as the PowerBuilder Foundation Classes. Much like the PFC, most programmers found reasons not to use them. In this article we will reduce the complexity of these objects and in so doing perhaps open a new world of efficient objects that are easily maintained and understood.
PBDJ article, by Richard Brooks

Setting the Scene and Overview of a MEAP
The first in a series of short articles on moving to mobile: SUP is a Mobile Enterprise Application Platform (MEAP), which in my opinion and also of folks like Gartner, is the only way forward in multiple application mobilization and multiple device support. SUP abstracts the data access and Business Logic into Mobile Business Objects (MBO's) that take care of accessing, updating and deleting back end data. This series looks at how to use SUP to go mobile.
PBDJ article, by Ian Thain

What’s new in Customization Studio?

Customization Studio 2010 is now available. It includes many exciting new features.
Here are some recent developments:
- Customization Panel is now multilingual, with support for English, Spanish, French and Japanese
- You can now change window titles
- When multiple changes are made to the same object/property, they are automatically collapsed in a single change

Customization Studio 2011 will enter closed beta shortly. This new version will make customization even simpler and faster!
It will include:
- Style Sheets: define and apply styles on the fly
- Support for Windows 7
- A revised console
See the complete list of features

About Customization Studio: A new approach to making changes in PowerBuilder applications. Make your application customizable in minutes, and allow non-developers to contribute to the design, validation and adaptation of your applications.
www.customization-studio.com

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