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 It’s Thursday morning, you’re the CEO of a large, publicly traded company, and you just called your executives into the conference room for the exciting news. The board of directors has approved the acquisition of a key competitor, and you’re looking for a call-to-action to get everyon...Oct. 6, 2009 11:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,528 |
 Those who answer to users probably agree that the style of the PowerBuilder applications have remained unchanged for far too long. While major improvements are anticipated with the release of the PowerBuilder 12 beta, developers who would like a quick face-lift for their applications a...Sep. 21, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 837 |
 The latest development technologies rely on intermediate languages and can be decompiled. PowerBuilder is no exception. In this article, we will address the risks posed by decompilers. We will also discuss what can be done to protect against the possible negative results of decompilati...Sep. 9, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 779 |
 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 ca...Aug. 27, 2009 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 1,398 Replies: 1 |
 In today’s competitive IT environment, organizations are reducing development and maintenance costs, and improving the accessibility of their legacy applications. With the growth in technology and demand for n-tier architecture-based applications, corporations now have an opportunity t...Aug. 19, 2009 09:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,590 Replies: 2 |
 In today’s business world change is a constant and companies need to ensure that they keep up with that change. Whether the change is an opportunistic response to new conditions – requirements, regulations, market conditions, a merger/acquisition – or a major transformation, companies ...Aug. 19, 2009 05:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,320 |
 Nowadays .NET has become a mainstream programming platform. To be inline with PowerBuilder’s .NET deployment and .NET development strategy, the PowerScript language will be enhanced to be a true CLS-compliant .NET language in PowerBuilder 12. Users will be able to consume and extend an...Aug. 19, 2009 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 2,053 |
 Yes size really does matter when you are talking about a client/server application, web server, or application server communicating with a database management system. Size is often overlooked when designing very large application systems that can potentially generate an excessive amoun...Aug. 10, 2009 02:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,583 |
 Software that is not used is useless. Facing the challenge that doctors prefer to spend time with their patients rather than facing the monitor, we have fine-tuned methods in our DataWindow-based forms so that user entry is quick, painless, and a pleasure. These include the use of drop...Aug. 7, 2009 01:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,120 |
 This article describes the integration between the SCM AllFusion Harvest Version Control Interface (VCI) and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for version control. It will show how to make the necessary connections using the interface, demonstrate check-outs and check-ins, how to delete fil...Jul. 17, 2009 01:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,511 Replies: 1 |
 How do you establish agile enterprise architecture? How can you rapidly develop and deploy applications to satisfy or even lead the market demand? Many enterprises are constructing and reorganizing the architecture using the concept of service-oriented architecture (SOA). However, we m...Jul. 9, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,941 |
 In the previous articles in this series, we looked at FDCC changes (part 1) and GUI enhancements (part 2) in PowerBuilder 11.5. In this article, we’ll be looking at the enhancements that were added to PowerBuilder 11.5 that are specifically related to .NET targets. The one thing we won...Jul. 3, 2009 10:00 PM EDT Reads: 2,411 |
 This is the second part of an ongoing series about the new features that were added in PowerBuilder 11.5. In the first part, we looked at the Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) and the impact it had on developers. In this part, we’re going to look at a number of the improvements...Jun. 12, 2009 06:15 AM EDT Reads: 2,034 |
 QweryBuilder is a database development tool designed and developed in PowerBuilder. Its purpose is to use innovative ideas and techniques to make database development and data retrieval easy and intuitive. It currently works against Sybase ASE, iAnywhere SQL Anywhere, Microsoft SQL Ser...Jun. 9, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,264 |
 No one would argue that the world is mobile. Let’s discuss how mobility is impacting business on a global level. Currently we have explosive data growth leading to information everywhere. What is critical is access to useful information anywhere, anytime. End users want convenience, en...Jun. 8, 2009 02:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,317 |
 I plan to make this the first of a series of articles that discuss the new features in PowerBuilder 11.5, which was released late last year. Of course, they won’t be the first articles we’ve run on the topic, as we ran an article on the new Code Access Security features back even befor...May. 28, 2009 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 2,483 |
 This article seems like it should be the fourth in a series of articles. The first two were on non-visual components in August 2006 and July of 2007. The last one was in August of 2007. In that one, we looked at using the Interop Forms Toolkit to provide a COM wrapper for Visual .NET c...Apr. 30, 2009 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 1,518 |
 Enabling interoperability is one of the greatest benefits of using web services. In the business world, applications work on different platforms with different operating systems running applications whose programming languages vary wildly. For applications to interact with each other t...Apr. 30, 2009 05:45 PM EDT Reads: 1,992 |
 Oracle has provided support for failing over database connections and, through Transparent Application Failover (TAF), doing so in a way that allows connected applications to continue functioning relatively uninterrupted during and after the failover. The connected application has to w...Apr. 20, 2009 04:15 PM EDT Reads: 1,340 Replies: 1 |
 Version 5.x of EAServer allowed easy synchronization of components or packages among different servers, or a cluster of servers. Just right-click on the package or component, choose “Synchronize,” add any necessary addressing information for target servers, and click “OK.” The user int...Apr. 20, 2009 02:30 PM EDT Reads: 689 |
 Back in August of 2007, I wrote an article entitled "Dynamically Generating Next-Generation Charts from PowerBuilder DataWindows" that demonstrated one method of dynamically generating Flash charts from within a PowerBuilder application. I was primarily writing that from the perspectiv...Feb. 27, 2009 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,574 |
 For this article I'll focus on SQL Anywhere version 10 and PowerBuilder 11.0. Some of the features reviewed may not be supported in previous versions of these software releases. In Part 1 I discussed the installation of SQL Anywhere, developing a schema, and the Database Painter. In Pa...Feb. 20, 2009 03:13 PM EST Reads: 1,959 |
 My favorite sport is artistic roller skating, where I act as the tabulator. It’s a wonderful sport, a bit like ice skating, except that most events are skated on quad skates (four wheels in a rectangular layout). We do freestyle (with jumps and spins), figure skating (on the circles), ...Feb. 16, 2009 10:15 AM EST Reads: 1,597 |
 TecnoTRENDS has been using PowerBuilder as its main development platform for years. The ultimate reason for choosing PowerBuilder was the versatility of the Sybase DataWindow control available under this platform. In short, the DataWindow control provides a significant productivity boo...Feb. 13, 2009 12:15 PM EST Reads: 1,002 |
 In the last few years many customers I consult for have asked how to modernize their PowerBuilder applications and their development skill set. They want to go to the Web, they want to embrace .NET, and, in general, they don't want to fall behind. I can sense their anxiety, but there a...Jan. 28, 2009 05:15 PM EST Reads: 2,152 |
 When you start to develop mission-critical business applications using your favorite development tool, you should seriously consider iAnywhere's SQL Anywhere database management system to support the data management requirements. The iAnywhere company is a subsidiary of Sybase. In the ...Jan. 28, 2009 01:40 PM EST Reads: 1,601 |
 .NET has become a mainstream programming platform. To be in line with PowerBuilder's .NET strategy (.NET deployment and .NET development), PB11 introduced many .NET-related features: its .NET compiler enables users to develop .NET Windows Forms (including SmartClient) applications and ...Jan. 5, 2009 09:30 AM EST Reads: 3,103 |
 Even the best physical filing systems have drawbacks: the cost of storage space, the need to pay rent for records that have to be kept off-site, the time it takes to locate and refile documents, and, of course, the time wasted finding lost or misfiled documents. You might even have a d...Dec. 24, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 2,646 |
 In PowerBuilder 11.5 we introduce features that allow you to easily give your existing DataWindows a new look and feel. New properties are added to columns and controls to allow you to add tooltips. You no longer have to settle for single-colored backgrounds. We have introduced propert...Dec. 24, 2008 07:30 AM EST Reads: 4,252 |
 Virtualization is actively being used by Sybase IT to help solve power/cooling issues as well as transform the datacenter into an environment that brings greater benefits to their customers, especially the engineering organization. Average CPU utilization was very low on physical serve...Nov. 27, 2008 07:00 PM EST Reads: 3,440 |
 Up until recently, Web applications were "connected-only" applications. Users could only use the application by connecting to the central server and all data access was done in a single place. For many years, people accepted that was the limitation of Web applications. But it isn't a l...Nov. 26, 2008 08:00 AM EST Reads: 1,710 |
 In Part 1 we started to develop a small racing game using XNA Game Studio Express 2.0. We learned about the game loop and how it's implemented by the XNA (by using the Update and Draw methods) framework. We also created our first track on the screen and four cars started moving on the ...Nov. 12, 2008 01:50 PM EST Reads: 1,471 |
 With PowerBuilder 11 Sybase gave developers what we have long hoped for – the possibility of taking an application created in a client/server architecture and turning it into a Web application, almost without having to move the code; and it's better if you don't use a server applicatio...Oct. 25, 2008 09:30 AM EDT Reads: 5,570 Replies: 2 |
 PowerBuilder 11.0 supports deploying existing PowerBuilder client/server business applications as an ASP.NET WebForm application. This greatly improves developer productivity without having to learn a new development language and preserves PowerBuilder development skills. Although the ...Sep. 12, 2008 08:00 PM EDT Reads: 4,076 |
 Maybe some of you remember a time when we created a sprite on a piece of graph paper and afterwards hacked zeroes and ones in so we could see something eventually move on a TV screen. I have to admit that those days have been gone for a long time and a lot of things have happened in IT...Sep. 3, 2008 12:36 PM EDT Reads: 2,791 |
 PowerBuilder 11's .NET support may be welcomed by developers looking to expand their horizons and take further advantage of SOA, yet developing in this environment also introduces new threats. Applications developed using the Microsoft .NET platform inherently expose the intellectual p...Sep. 2, 2008 02:04 PM EDT Reads: 1,595 |
 One of the reasons that ASP.NET has become popular as a framework for Web developers is the availability of third-party controls and tools. This third-party product support means that, when you’re developing features and functionality in an ASP.NET application, you have "buy versus bui...Aug. 19, 2008 06:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,326 |
 Most new users of PowerBuilder start with SQL Anywhere as the back-end database engine (formerly Adaptive Server Anywhere or ASA, and before that Watcom). With growth, a need to shift and adapt to a wider database platform is thrust on developers by customers. A recent exercise in this...Aug. 8, 2008 06:00 PM EDT Reads: 1,989 |
 In PowerBuilder 11.2, .NET meets J2EE head-on with the capability to deploy .NET Windows Forms and Web Forms applications (as well as assemblies and Web Services) that access Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs) in Sybase's own EAServer. As you'll see over the course of this article, integratin...Jul. 15, 2008 04:30 PM EDT Reads: 2,237 |
 PowerBuilder 11 deploys entire applications as .NET Windows Form or Web Form applications and deploys individual components as .NET Assemblies and as .NET Web Services. Version 11 consumes resources of the default .NET framework as well as resources of custom developer-defined .NET res...Jun. 19, 2008 11:00 AM EDT Reads: 3,959 Replies: 1 |
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