Spring is the perfect time for new projects: ideas start to sprout. Just in time to help you realize your new projects, we’re bringing you updates on all the action in the PowerBuilder world! Sybase is preparing the worldwide Developer Days tour and a new initiative, PowerBuilderTV, will be bringing you webinars from the PB community. Enjoy our newsletter and keep supporting PowerBuilder.

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New! PowerBuilderTV: Webinars for Developers
Novalys will be partnering with Sybase and other members of the PowerBuilder community to bring you a series of webinars called PowerBuilderTV.
Sessions will include new features and tips and tricks to using PowerBuilder and companion products.
You can attend live sessions for the opportunity to ask questions and participate in promotions. Videos will be archived for consultation.

Our inaugural webinar: New Application Suite for PowerBuilder Developers - Thurs. April 8th at 10am EST.
Take 30 minutes and discover tools that will save you hours of development time. We’ll introduce you to tools that secure applications, help maintain and refresh your applications, and more!
Register Now - Learn more.

The PowerBuilder Ecosystem
One of the indications of how well a product is doing is how well the ecosystem surrounding it is doing. For a software product that can be determined by a number of things, including how active user groups are and whether the number of third-party products that work with it are increasing or decreasing.
PBDJ article, by Bruce Armstrong

Sybase Developers Days 2010
Join Sybase's technical experts at this worldwide Developer Days seminar tour as they showcase the latest releases of our industry leading development software. All seminars are free and run from 8:30am - 2pm local time (timing may vary slightly by location) with breakfast and lunch included.
Sybase Developers Days 2010

Novalys PowerBuilder Worldwide Survey
As every year, Novalys performed a survey in the use of PowerBuilder in 2009. 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 2009? Who’s still using PB5? Who has moved to PB11? Where do you fit in?

Take the 2010 PowerBuilder survey and find out more about 2009 results.

PowerBuilder and .NET

PB .NET Migration Assistant
It started off by me wondering, why is there is no version 12 .NET migration assistant like the one in previous versions? Then it dawned on me. The migration process is its own assistant!
PBDJ Blog Post, by Yakov Werde

WPF Skins
The new PowerBuilder 12.NET product utilizes the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) feature of the .NET framework version 3.5 that now allows the PB application developer to assign either Window or Application based "Skins". The skin is an XML style that can be applied to all controls within a specific Window class or to all objects within a given application.
PBDJ blog post, by Chris Pollach

Tips from developers like you

Troubleshooting text cut offs in nested DataWindows
Sometimes the situation occurs that text in nested datawindows running over a page is cut off. This article gives information for workarounds.
Sybase, Technote

Customize your Visual Expert with Macro Extensions!
With only a right-click on the navigation bar you can now add macro extensions to Visual Expert. Choose the macro(s) that you need and personalize the Visual Expert graphical interface, without cluttering it up with macros you don't regularly use.

Three extensions are already released. They allow you to organize Visual Expert to get statistical data about PowerBuilder code, list PowerBuilder scripts that use a data manipulation function, check the compatibility of your system functions and libraries with Windows 7. New extensions will be delivered regularly.
Try Visual Expert

Appeon 6.5 for JBoss Available Now!
On March 19, Appeon 6.5 for PowerBuilder released the edition supporting deploying Web applications to JBoss Application Server, which is a leading Java platform in the open source world. Customers or partners request for this version may contact Appeon account manager or directly send email to sales@appeon.com for getting the trial or production license.

Appeon for PowerBuilder keeps being recognized as the best solution for enabling the PowerBuilder developers to build Rich Internet Applications rapidly and easily. And Appeon 6.5 comes as the best version ever since for developers who want to further improve their Web development productivity!

To read the complete new features, download the PDF datasheet of Appeon 6.5 for PowerBuilder.

Appeon Website: www.appeon.com

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