Fall is traditionally a time of harvest for farmers, but the same can be said of PowerBuilder developers too! They're harvesting ideas and projects. PowerBuilder 12.1 has just been released and Sybase wants to hear your feedback.

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 fall, 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:

• Using PowerBuilder and Expression Blend Together - Tues. November 23rd at 12pm EST.
  WPF is all about creating a rich User Experience. Come see how Expression Blend, Microsoft's WPF design tool, helps you to build powerful and sophisticated PowerBuilder user interfaces.
  Presenter: John Strano
  Register Now
• Combine PB, .NET and Java Access Control in a single tool - Thurs. December 2nd at 10am EST
  Companies rarely work with applications in a single technology. But securing each application with a different system means a lot of repetitive user administration. See how a single access control system can secure all your applications.
  Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
  Register Now
• Version control using PowerBuilder and Subversion - Tues. December 7th at 11am EST
  Presented in Spanish
  Presenter: Oscar Tobar
  Register Now

PowerBuilder 12 and Beyond: Give Sybase Your Opinion!

Now’s your chance to influence the future of PowerBuilder.
PowerBuilder 12.1 is out now, and the engineering team at Sybase is starting to plan future versions. They need your feedback. Influence the current and future evolutions of PowerBuilder. Fill out this short survey to let them know what you think. Your answer will be sent to directly to Sybase.
Don’t miss out – help shape the future of PowerBuilder. Take the survey!

Looking for more information on PowerBuilder12?

Using Add-ins with PowerBuilder .NET 12.0
When Sybase originally released PowerBuilder 10.0, one of the new features they added with that version was the PowerDesigner plug-in. There had been a number of IDE "add-in" third-party products for PowerBuilder before (e.g, SmartPaste, SmartJump), but this was the first time that Sybase had opened up an API to officially support add-ins to the IDE. This article shows you how to use add-ins with PB .NET 12.
PBDJ article, by Bruce Armstrong

PowerBuilder 12.1 .NET IDE Productivity
I recently migrated a Classic MDI application to .NET. One of the nice features that helped me prepare my code for .NET deployment is the Unsupported Feature list that appears in a selectable view in the Output window. That view gets populated following a build if the app has unsupported features. The unsupported list is a very useful guide to locating and navigating to lines of code and property references that need your special attention.
PBDJ article, by Yakov Werde

PowerBuilder, .Net, Java: Centralized Access Control for all your applications!

Do your applications include access control (user management, login window...)? If you also develop .NET and Java applications, you need another system to provide access control to these applications.
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
Learn more about Visual Guard

New PowerBuilder Tool: PowerFilter

PowerToTheBuilder presents PowerFilter. It's a powerful, easy-to-implement datawindow filtering component that provides users functionality similar to what is found in Excel 2007. Add one control to your window and 3 lines of Powerscript to implement it.
PowerFilter lets you custom filter with pre-defined options based on datatype. It supports Grid and Tabular DataWindows, Columns and Computed Fields.
Check it out at http://www.powertothebuilder.com/powerfilter.aspx

Make your applications customizable in a few minutes

When users want to adapt screens or build custom reports, it generates additional costs.
If multiple clients request different changes, it becomes even more complicated.
Customization Studio simplifies this process: users can customize screens and reports by themselves, without any technical skill, and using only an executable copy of the application (no change to the source code).
Learn more about this solution in a PowerBuilderTV webinar:
November 16th at 10am EST (New York) / 16h CET (Paris) - Register

Looking for more information? Want a trial version? Contact Novalys

Tips from developers like you

Writing COM Controls for PowerBuilder in C#
While there is literature describing how to use .NET controls in PB (see for example, past issues of this magazine), all are silent on how to set control properties at runtime and how to persist them. This article will address both issues.
PBDJ article, by Frederick Koh

Are you PBProtected?

New decompilers can easily reverse engineer any PowerBuilder application. This lets unauthorized people manipulate your code. PBProtect generates an obfuscated code 100% equivalent to the original one, making it too difficult to reverse-engineer.
New Features in PBProtect 3.0: support for Windows 7 and PowerBuilder 12, incremental obfuscation, and reduced obfuscation time.
Try PBProtect

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