Now that summer's here, many people are thinking of their vacations. But not PowerBuilder developers - with the recent release of PB12, and TechWave coming up, there's too much excitement! So grab a cool drink, take a mintue to relax, and find out what's happening in the world of PB this summer!

Upcoming events on PowerBuilderTV

PowerBuilderTV is with you throughout the summer, bringing you webinars to enhance your PowerBuilder experience. We will be taking a quick break for TechWave, but will be back the week after, and all through the fall!
See the full schedule, or catch up on past webinars.

Upcoming Webinars:

• Building your first mobile application using PocketBuilder - Tues. August 17th at 5pm EST.
  Take PowerBuilder applications mobile with PocketBuilder. Put your PowerBuilder skills to use on mobile applications with PocketBuilder, the rapid application development tool for PocketPC and Windows Mobile.
  Presenter: Chris Pollach
  Register Now
• Inheriting from .NET classes in a PowerBuilder .NET application - Tues. August 31st at 12pm EST.
  This webcast will provide a step by step demonstration on how to inherit from, and extend a .NET class using PowerBuilder 12. Attendees will learn how to inherit from both .NET visual and nonvisual classes and extend their functionality using Powerscript.
  Presenter: Dave Fish
  Register Now

Looking for more information on PowerBuilder12?

PowerBuilder 12 Getting Started Guide
http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc37772.1200/html/pbgs/title.htm

PowerBuilder 12 User Guide
http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc00844.1200/html/pbug/title.htm

PowerBuilder 12 Deploying Applications and Components to .NET
http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.infocenter.dc00586.1200/html/dplynet/title.htm

Migrating PowerBuilder SOAP clients to WCF - Powerbuilder 12 Has Been Released, And Comes In Two Flavors!
PowerBuilder 12 has been released, and if you’ve been paying attention, you know that it now comes in two flavors! There’s PB12 “Classic” for traditional Win32, WinForm, WebForm, .NET Assembly, and J2E component targets, and PB12 .NET for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) and WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) proxy targets.
PBDJ article, by Paul Horan

Are We Headed in the Right Direction?
Sybase is currently in the middle of the most aggressive marketing program that I've seen for PowerBuilder in recent history. If you've been following my blog, you'll know that Sybase recently ran a four-page ad in Visual Studio magazine promoting the release of PowerBuilder 12. They've also been conducting a worldwide series of "Developer Days" promoting PowerBuilder 12 and a number of other Sybase products. One of the things they show during that road show is a rather tentative "road map" of which features are planned for future versions of PowerBuilder.
PBDJ article, by Bruce Armstrong

Are you a member of the Sybase Developers Network?
The Sybase Developers Network (SDN) is an online resource for developers and database administrators to learn about Sybase products and their applications. SDN offers a single point of access to developer software, services, related technical information and collaboration with other developers. SDN membership is free and provides access to these and other benefits:

For more information about the network, or to join, visit www.sybase.com/developer

Stay current on Sybase Products like ASE, SUP, PB and the rest of the Sybase product line. Just
visit your Sybase Developer Network profile or your MySybase profile and select the relevant products in the 'product interest' section. Select as many products as you like. You can update your selections anytime and add newly added products to your profile. If you have any questions about SDN, please e-mail kkuhn@sybase.com.

2010 PowerBuilder Worldwide Survey - First Results Available
The first results from the 2010 survey on PowerBuilder are in! Thanks to the participation of the community of PB developers, we've got a first look at the trends. The survey is still open, so please take a second to fill it out!

Take the 2010 PowerBuilder survey and see the first results from 2010.

Sybase Techwave 2010 - Registration is now open
Join Sybase at Techwave 2010 in Washington DC, August 9 -11 for the unique opportunity to learn what’s new with Sybase technologies. With over 150 technical sessions, TechWave will provide you with the practical information you need to give your company a competitive edge. With concurrent sessions across 3 days, you can dive deep into one product or learn more about other Sybase technologies.

The first day of the conference, including keynotes, plenary sessions, and introductory technical content, is free to all pre-registered attendees. The cost to attend the full conference, which includes two full days of technical training, is $600.

Check out the detailed agenda and register today at http://www.sybase.com/techwave/register

Visual Expert 6.1 Available Now!
Now featuring support for Windows7 and Vista, Visual Expert 6.1 helps maintain your code with advanced impact analysis. For the new version, the set-up engine has been completely redeveloped and you no longer need to uninstall a build to update Visual Expert.

Also, the new macros "Possibly unused" and "Unused local variables or parameters" are now available for Windows, Userobjects and Menus.
The "Possibly unused" macro allows you to retrieve their unused methods and attributes.
The "Unused local variables or parameters" macro allows you to retrieve unused local variables or parameters related to the selected component.
Try Visual Expert

Tips from developers like you

Refactoring PowerBuilder Applications
The migration march to PB 12.NET will have many shops revisiting legacy applications. In this article I'll show you a technique to use for rolling multiple test cases into a single test suite and how to approach writing test cases that exercise database-centric code..
PBDJ article, by Yakov Werde

Appeon 6.5 Available in August
The full Appeon 6.5 for PowerBuilder will be released in August. This edition, supporting PB12, JBoss and Windows7, brings you true 64-bit high-performance processing. You can deploy to multi-instance servers and mulitple URLs. If you want to try the new version, or would like more information, click here.

Appeon for PowerBuilder is consistently recognized as the best solution for building Rich Internet Applications rapidly and easily. Appeon 6.5 is for developers who want to further improve their Web development productivity!

To read the complete new features, download the datasheet.

Read more about Appeon

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