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Dear PowerBuilder User,
As the new year begins, it's with great pleasure that we continue
to send you relevant news about PowerBuilder.
The Novalys team wishes you a very Happy New Year. We hope that
2009 will bring success to all of you.
Featured
in our January issue
PowerBuilder Companion Tools News
PowerBuilder Articles
PowerBuilder & .NET Articles
PowerBuilder Tips from developers like you
Visual
Expert 6 beta1 available
This new version comes with:
- a new set of Macros for PowerBuilder and Oracle developers
- a new source code view
- a new navigation bar
For instance, the new impact analysis highlights the lines with
a reference.
If you want to experience Visual Expert 6.0, sign
up now for the beta program.
Comments and feedback regarding the new macros are welcome!
Now's your chance to adapt Visual Expert to your needs!
About Visual Expert:
Visual Expert provides code exploration, impact analysis,
source code documentation, code review and dead code detection.
Manage the evolution of your applications with Visual Expert:
you will save time and avoid tedious tasks.
Download an evaluation version
Visual
Guard PB 11.5 is out!
Novalys has been updating Visual
Guard for PowerBuilder. For those of you who have joined us
recently, Visual Guard is an innovative solution for PB application
security. Not only does VG combine end user authentication and
permissions into a single tool, it also enables you to create
permissions without coding.
VG for PB has been given an overhaul for the New Year. It's now
ready for PB 11.5 and supports Vista and includes a multilingual
administration console. Most importantly, we have added support
for Active Directory and Windows Single Sign-On. You can now reuse
Windows accounts stored in Active Directory to authenticate end
users of your PB applications. All this without any effort: Visual
Guard takes care of integration with AD for you.
Download
Visual Guard PB trial version
Visual Guard is also available for .NET
applications
Enable
Enterprise makes PB applications multilingual
The new 2.6 release of Enable
Enterprise fully supports PB 11.5, including
DW Tooltips and new properties. Work on Version 3,
the next major release, is far advanced with some exciting new
features in the pipeline. In particular, the interface with Google
Translation API will provide a rapid, first-pass translation
of all your new strings (for the multitude of Google-supported
languages), ready for human review. Corrections can be made efficiently,
on the fly, using Enable Runtime Explorer 2.5.
In addition, Enable Enterprise Version 3 will be supplied with
the source code (obfuscated) for Enable Engine,
allowing easy deployment with Appeon and PB.NET
(WinForms, WebForms). This represents an exciting advanced opportunity
to make your migrated web applications multilingual!
Obtain a trial here -
More about Enable+Rex 2.6
PowerBuilder
10 Reasons You Should Be a PowerBuilder Developer
1) PowerBuilder positively impacts your bottom line.
2) PowerBuilder is low risk,
3)...
PBDJ
blog - By Chris Pollach
An Electronic File Cabinet in PowerBuilder - How to eliminate
your physical file cabinets
Even the best physical filing systems have drawbacks:
the cost of storage space, the need to pay rent for records that
have to be kept off-site […] We had to find a better way.
The vision was to totally eliminate our file cabinets. […]
We shopped around for a package, but decided to code our own PowerBuilder
solution. We built a custom "Electronic File Cabinet."
PBDJ
article - By Victor A Reinhart
PowerBuilder &
.NET
PowerBuilder .NET Web Services with Various Front Ends-A work in progress
Last year I wrote an article in PBDJ describing an ASP.NET project
that was done with DataWindow.NET in the browser and PowerBuilder
Web Services in the back end. […] This article covers solutions
that run in different browsers and on different operation systems.
I will also look at PowerBuilder 11.2 Webform although it is IE-only.
At the end I will cover PowerBuilder WinForm and PocketBuilder as
they could be solutions for applications that are not always connected.
PBDJ
article - By Arthur Hefti New DataWindow
Features in PowerBuilder 11.5 For client/server, Windows Forms
and Smart Client applications
In PowerBuilder 11.5 we introduce features that allow you to easily
give your existing DataWindows a new look and feel. New properties
are added to columns and controls to allow you to add tooltips.
You no longer have to settle for single-colored backgrounds. We
have introduced properties to control color gradients and translucency
for the background of columns, and most controls and bands.
PBDJ
article - By Frederick Koh; Gao Hong; Ni Hai-bo; Gan Ya-qin; Liang
Liang
PowerBuilder's .NET Strategy - PowerScript
language enhancements for .NET application development
.NET has become a mainstream programming platform. To be in line
with PowerBuilder's .NET strategy (.NET deployment and .NET development),
PB11 introduced many .NET-related features.
[…]These language features are a major step on PB's roadmap
to providing support for .NET platform, however they are relatively
isolated and have some limitations.
PBDJ
article - By Thomas Zang
PowerBuilder
Tips from Developers Like You
Datawindows: They’re not just for DATA anymore!!!
[…]Let’s take a look at a new feature of PB 11.5 that
will let you use datawindows in ways you probably never thought
of. And they have NOTHING whatsoever to do with data!
Blog Paul’s random musings - By Paul Horan
Round buttons in PowerBuilder?
Can’t be done, you say?? You’d love to have the professional
look and feel of, say, the iTunes interface with its cute round
buttons, but your GUI is restricted to those boring, old RECTANGULAR
commandbuttons? PB 11.5 and its support for the Portable Network
Graphics (.PNG) image format is here to save you!
Blog Paul’s random musings - By Paul Horan
More fun with PB’s new datawindow gradients - animated progress bars!
[…]Well, I was goofing around on iTunes today, and was quite
enamored with their nice animated progress bar. […] It’s
just a nice GUI effect, and I wondered if I could implement that
same effect in PowerBuilder… And I got pretty close!
Blog Paul’s random musings - By Paul Horan
Setting the RowStatus
If you have worked with PowerBuilder for a while, you have learned
that setting the status of a row is not always a straight forward
procedure. I have created a handy utility which will simplify this
process.
Schultz’s
PowerBuilder Notes
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