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Do you have your PowerBuilder 12 beta yet? While most of us were on summer vacation, Sybase developers were working hard to release the beta version of PowerBuilder 12! Now it’s your turn to contribute to the success of PowerBuilder by testing the beta version and giving your feedback to Sybase! So, if you don’t have your beta yet download
it now!
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PowerBuilder
12
Sybase Unveils All New PowerBuilder to Make Developing
for Microsoft .NET Applications Even Easier
Sybase, Inc. (NYSE:SY), an industry leader in delivering enterprise
and mobile software, today announced the beta availability for
PowerBuilder 12, a new generation of Sybase’s proven development
tool. This latest release of the award-winning PowerBuilder empowers
developers with the easiest, fastest and most cost-effective path
to the Microsoft® .NET Framework, the Microsoft Windows®
component that supports building and running the next generation
of applications.
Sybase, Press Release
Introducing PowerBuilder 12 .NET
A dormant giant gets a new lease on life as a .NET-compatible
development environment.
[...] The upcoming release of PowerBuilder 12, which is compliant
with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) promises to be the
most effective method to migrate valuable PowerScript-based code
assets to a standards-compliant, interoperable format with minimum
risk and exposure. This article explores some of the new PowerBuilder
platform's potential to accomplish that goal. It also offers suggestions
on how to approach a PowerBuilder legacy application migration
effort while leveraging available developer skills and knowledge.
DevX article, by Yakov Werde
Come Get Your Beta While It’s Hot . . .
The PowerBuilder 12.0 beta has officially started. It's pretty
hard to overstate the magnitude of the changes that are taking
place within PowerBuilder for this version. As a result, it's
more important than ever for as many people as possible to participate
in order to get the most amount of feedback as possible back to
Sybase. It's going to be a lot easier to let Sybase know there's
a problem with a feature now before the "die is cast"
and it's easier for them to fix than to wait until after the release
to find the problem, and then have to wait for an EBF for a correction.
PBDJ article, by Bruce Armstrong
Spotlight
on Visual Expert 6.0 features: New Impact Analysis
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Visual Expert used to perform Impact Analysis and provided
a component-level result.
Now, Visual Expert 6.0 provides fine-grained results at
instruction level!
With one glance at the source code, you can see the instructions
that make reference to the selected item, the number of
references, and can navigate from one reference to another
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Watch
the video and see for yourself! In addition,
the user interface has been redeveloped to include a new
navigation bar, new source code view with tooltips, and
over 100 new macros to explore and clean up your code.
Download
Visual Expert 6.0 |
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PowerBuilder
Hey Buddy, Can You Spare Some Code...?
PowerBuilder fans have been sharing code with one another since...well
at least since the beginning days of CompuServe in the early 1990s.
When PowerBuilder users gathered in just a single section in a
general interest programming forum, we had an associated file
library section, and when we moved to our own PowerSoft forum
we had a series of file libraries.
PBDJ
article, by Bruce Armstrong
PowerBuilder returns from the dead…
Not sure how I missed it when it was first released. Or perhaps
my age is showing and I just forgot I saw it earlier. In any event,
it’s an IDC
report reviewing the history of PowerBuilder and commenting
on the .Net direction incorporated into the last few releases.
Of particular interest for people using the product since the
early days, it includes the release date for every major version
back to 1.0.
PBDJ
article, by Bruce Armstrong
How
to protect against Reverse Engineering
PowerBuilder decompilers are becoming more and more powerful.
This leaves PB applications open to reverse engineering and unauthorized
operations. Someone could crack your software protection to perform
illegal transactions or spread unprotected copies of your product.
Both in-house and commercial applications can be affected.
PBProtect, the obfuscator for PowerBuilder, defends
against reverse engineering. With no effect on execution time
or maintenance, PBProtect’s one-click process
is simple and effective.
To discover more on PBProtect, go to www.pb-protect.com
PowerBuilder
Tips from developers like you
Using the Microsoft Chart Controls in PowerBuilder
You may not be aware of this, but Microsoft now provides a rather
powerful charting control free of charge as an add-in for .NET
3.5. It's available for download at http://xrl.us/ben3pm. Because
it supports 35 different chart types (see Figure 1), it can add
significant new charting capability to PowerBuilder applications.
PBDJ
article, by Bruce Armstrong
Updating Your PowerBuilder Applications for Today's World
User Interface (UI) standards have evolved over the years and
custom-developed applications haven’t kept pace. Many applications
developed in the 1990’s now have a dated look and feel.
With some minimal effort, applications can be given a fresh look
by making a few key User Interface (UI) changes. At stake is no
less than your user’s satisfaction with your software.
Sybase white paper – by Donald D. Clayton
How
to Make your Applications Multilingual
Many companies already know that Enable Enterprise is a cost-effective
way to extend the international reach of their software. By using
Enable, developers can upgrade a monolingual PowerBuilder program
in a matter of hours with just a few changes to the original code.
Now, you can also make your Web and .NET applications
multilingual!
A special version of the Enable Engine allows
customers to deploy multilingual applications with Appeon and
PB.NET (both WinForms and WebForms). The new 2.7 version includes
other exciting features like support for user-defined translations
and additional APIs for improving performance and flexibility.
Learn
more about Enable and get
a trial version to see for yourself how easy it is
to make your applications multilingual.
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soon...
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