PowerBuilder 11

Top 11 Reasons to Consider PowerBuilder 11
This article looks at the top 11 reasons to consider PowerBuilder 11. Those reasons are broken into two groups: that directly affect your end users (things they will notice) and thing that will make your life as a developer easier.
By Bruce Armstrong- PBDJ article - click here...
PowerBuilder 11.0
In this new release, PowerBuilder 11 delivers features and functionality that you’ve come to expect over the past 16 years...
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PowerBuilder 11 User Guide
This book provides an overview of the PowerBuilder 11.0 development environment, a tutorial in which you build your first application, create a PowerDynamo Web target, deploy and run a Web site, and more.
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PowerBuilder and .NET
PowerBuilder and .NET
A variety of PowerBuilder customers have asked whether or not they should stay with PowerBuilder or go to .NET. The purpose of this paper is to show that PowerBuilder and .NET are not mutually exclusive.
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How to create a WebService using Visual Studio.Net and use .Net Web services with PowerBuilder
This document explains how a ASP.NET Web service can be created and how to call this Web service from PowerBuilder.
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DEV539: Moving to PowerBuilder 11
Gain extensive hands-on experience on all the new features of PowerBuilder 11, offering you the ability to create .NET application code from the PowerBuilder IDE and standard PowerScript programming code.
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Migrating to PowerBuilder 11?

When migrating your applications to PB11 or .Net, you may have to modify the code. Visual Expert will help you rebuild the knowledge of existing applications. It will also help avoid negative side effects after a change (impact analysis).
Visual Expert automates impact analysis, helps exploring and understanding PowerBuilder and Stored Procedure code. More info…

How to secure PowerBuilder11 / .NET applications?

PowerBuilder 11 is out! You have now the possibility to deploy your PB code as a .NET application. But how will you secure such an application? How will you manage user accounts, profiles and permissions? Will you build your own solution?

We developed a new solution to cover such needs: Visual Guard for PB11. Not only Visual Guard for PB11 secures PowerBuilder applications but it also supports .NET Winform and ASP.NET Webforms deployment. Read more...

Enable Runtime Explorer 1.6.1 supports PowerBuilder 11

Enable Runtime Explorer (or simply Rex) is a runtime component that helps PowerBuilder developers with their development, debugging and technical support work. The enhanced ability of Buffer Explorer to display (and modify) DataWindow, DataStore and DataWindowChild buffers means that developers can immediately see what is happening when a bug pops up!

Property Explorer helps developers to understand quickly by allowing them to display and modify (play with) the properties of all objects (controls and DWOs). Technical support can benefit from these functions too.
Rex also allows the size and position of controls and DWOs to be changed in runtime, so the time spent on trial-and-error iterations to make a screen look good can be minimized. Of course, all changes are documented in detail so that subsequent coding changes are a breeze, Read more...

Enable 2.0 makes PowerBuilder applications multilingual

Enable Development announces the release of Enable 2.0 that now supports PowerBuilder 11 for the end of June. Among the many enhancements, power users will be pleased to see further major performance improvements. Field trials on software with over 1Gb of code have returned developer “waiting” times that are now measurable in seconds. Runtime performance, already fast, has also been enhanced.

In addition, look for:
• better filters (ease of use, greater flexibility) in both Enable Extractor and Enable Author
• changes to the import/export functions so that translations can be used for several projects (repository)
• new referential integrity controls for the database
• ability to modify the PSR files generated, thus facilitating the management of “to do” lists
• ability to translate on demand a Tab Folder control and a menu
• many new APIs, including the full integration of Enable Runtime Explorer Read more...

Reminder: 2007 Worldwide PowerBuilder Survey

If you have not yet participated in the PowerBuilder Survey do it now and help us to learn more about the current and future use of PowerBuilder, click here...

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