January 2012

Upcoming events on PowerBuilderTV

How to migrate your PowerBuilder Applications?
What are the advantages of migrating to PB 12.x Classic and PB 12.x .NET? What are the costs and difficulties related to migration? To learn step by step how to migrate your applications and in order to answer any question you may have, join us January 19, 2012 on PowerBuilderTV. Please note that this presentation will be in French.
Presenter: Bassam Tannouri
Presented in English: Thurs. February 9th at 11am EST (New York) / 17h00 CET (Paris) - Register Now

PowerBuilder 12.5.1 - A Maintenance Release and a Whole Lot More!
PowerBuilder 12.5.1 will be released soon as a free download for anyone using PowerBuilder 12.5. While this is primarily a maintenance release it will include two new powerful features in the PowerBuilder .NET IDE. Join Dave Fish as he discusses and demonstrates the ability to dynamically load PowerBuilder assemblies into a WPF application at runtime as well as the ability to deploy 64-bit .NET applications.
Presenter: Dave Fish
Presented in English: Thursday February 23rd at 11am EST (New York) / 17h00 CET (Paris) - Register Now

Cómo hacer aplicaciones multitarea con PowerBuilder
En este webinar realizaremos aplicaciones multitarea en versiones de Powerbuilder anteriores a la 12, para que se puedan ejecutar como procesos independientes para aprovechar al máximo el procesador y la memoria. También explicarán las nuevas funcionalidades y ventajas del trabajo multiproceso en PowerBuilder 12.5 utilizando funciones de PowerBuilder.NET
Presentador : Oscar Tobar
Presented in Spanish : Jueves 8 de Marzo a las 09hrs (Ciudad de Mexico) / 16hrs CET (Madrid) - Register Now

Introduction to Customization Studio 2012
Imagine a PowerBuilder extension that would allow end-users to modify applications themselves! Customization Studio lets them edit a window as if it were a simple MS Office document. Users modify the executable version of the application, without changing the source code, creating an immediate result.
Customization Studio 2012 features a new application called "NCS Designer"; it provides tools designed for non-technical users. In this presentation, we will see how to use these tools to customize reports, add new items in your windows, modernize the look & feel of the application and more...
Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
Presented in English - Thursday March 22nd 2012 at 12:00 PM EST (New York) - 17h00 CET (Paris) - Register Now
More information on Customization Studio...

On-demand webinars on PowerBuilderTV:
  Add Single Sign-On to PowerBuilder Applications
  Building Modern PowerBuilder Applications
  The Road Ahead - An Update on What's Next for PowerBuilder
  Fast Track to Web-enabling PB with Appeon 6.5

What's new in the world for 2012?

Something we've learned from the PB Worldwide 2011 survey (that will be released shortly!) is that PowerBuilder developers are looking for a way to deploy their applications to mobile devices. Check out these articles that gives us a sneak peak of things to come.

How Quickly the Mighty Have Fallen
"...Perhaps the main issue there was the dependence on one particular mobile operating system. In order to play in this market, PowerBuilder would need to be able to generate native applications for both Android and iOS at a minimum. The Developer Agreement changes referred to earlier were reversed by Apple, so cross-compiling applications to work on iOS is acceptable once more."
PBDJ Article by Bruce Armstrong

Building Cross-Device Cross-Platform Mobile Applications with PowerBuilder -
"This is a very exciting time to be a PowerBuilder developer. If you attended TechWave you may have felt the positive energy from your fellow developers. Appeon was featured in the plenary session and several breakout sessions, covering mobility, cloud, and UI modernization...you may have seen the prototype of Appeon Mobile, which will enable PowerBuilder to deploy to virtually any mobile device, including iPhone, iPad, Android-based mobile and pad devices, and so on."
PBDJ article by Armeen Mazda

After PowerBuilder 12.5 Classic – Sneak Preview - Frederick Koh
"By the time you are reading this, PB12.5 will have been released and work on PB15 well under way. A lot of exciting things have gone into the .NET version of PB but we still get requests for features to go into the Classic version of the product. Even though there was a lull in activity in PB12 Classic, we are back again in 12.5 - and we are not stopping."
PBDJ article by Frederick Koh

Looking for more information on PowerBuilder?

Sybase PowerBuilder: A Tradition of Productivity Evolved for Modern Developer Ecosystems
Revolutionary at its inception for defining and popularizing this specific genre of distributed application development, the PowerBuilder 12.5 development environment today combines functional maturity with aggressive modernizations that keep it a viable and compelling tool for tackling business applications.
IDC and Sybase White Paper

New Release - Enable 3.6 for PowerBuilder
Enable adds a multilingual interface to your PowerBuilder Application and makes it available to international users in a matter of hours. No need to modify the source code or the executable file to update translations, print reports in several languages without changing the user interface, create a customized layout for each language, deploy the application to users with a customized layout and properties, and allow end-users to customize translations.
Try Enable
A new version of Enable for PowerBuilder has recently been released. Version 3.6 GA - build 3.6.0.11216 contains the following: native support for PB12.5 - support for MenuTitleText translation, support for Appeon for PB 10.5, 11.5, 12.x, 12. Enable Engine for PB12.5 WPF, to use in applications migrated from PB12.5 classic to PB12.5 WPF. It includes only the features to run the application in a different language, not for capturing strings, analyzing XAML, running Runtime Explorer or defining translations in runtime. Read more

Are your applications used simultaneously by independent groups of users (clients, partners, subsidiaries…)? Visual Guard simplifies this process.
- A single system can secure all your applications
- Manage a single list of users, and give them access to all your applications
- You can even use Windows accounts to identify users, instead of the usual username/password accounts
Visual Guard 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.
Try Visual Guard - Learn more about securing multi-tenant applications

Innovative uses of PowerBuilder from developers like you

PowerBuilder – Not Just for Business Apps (Mafia Manager)
Most people associate PowerBuilder with business applications, however there is no reason the tool cannot be used for other project types. Mafia Manager is an application that was written using PowerBuilder Version 10.5, written for Mafia Live a basic RPG about running your own Mafia.
The Displaced Guy

PowerBuilder and DOS based Tetris
If you’d like to see what’s PowerBuilder capable of you can use the link below to try a game - Tetris - written in PowerBuilder. It’s based on the original DOS Tetris I used to play... In spite of all the bugs described above, the game is really playable. Give it a try especially if you are a Tetris fan or PowerBuilder fan. In this second case it is a must! You can show all non-believers what PowerBuilder can do!
Notatki Niedzielnego Programisty Blog

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