Chris Pollack's Blog

Dear Sybase User;

Please join us on Wednesday, May 16, 2007 for the next Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) special event! OSUG's mission is to create a Sybase community in the National Capital area where users can share knowledge, experiences, and best practices. Users of all Sybase products, including data management, tools and mobility are welcome to attend. This meeting will feature networking opportunities, product updates and a discussion.

With the release of PowerBuilder 11 scheduled for 2007, Sybase will be entering the Microsoft .Net 2.0 world with their  premier development tool. Some of our attendees at the October 11th OSUG meeting witnessed Mr. John Strano's overview presentation on PB 11 Beta. Again on January 24th, Chris Pollach presented "Getting Ready for PB11.Net" with an overview of installing, configuring and building .Net applications with PB 11. Chris also disseminated some more code examples and his STD Framework for Winform and WebForm development.

Since then, Sybase has continued through Beta II and has further added a significant amount of new features to PB 11! OSUG is pleased to feature Mr. John Strano  on a return trip to deliver a free "Hands-on" day of training on the new rich featured PB 11 along assisted by Mr. David Fish and Jim O'Neil from Sybase USA to expound on PB 11's .Net 2.0 features!. Both Jim and Dave will be co-presenting along with John in the morning and helping out with the Code Camp coaching in the afternoon sessions . We will also Sue Dunnell the senior PowerBuilder product manager on-hand to answer questions about the "Power" family of products!

The OSUG May 16, 2007 meeting will be held in Ottawa at Constitution Square in the Queen's University MBA lecture theatre. Constitution Square is located at 350 Albert Street (at Lyon) just across the street from the Crowne Plaza hotel. Bus access is right to the door and parking is available at the hotel, in Constitution Square and across the street. Queens University is located on the second floor (centre) and can be accessed from either the west or east elevators.

Here is the agenda, topics and the planned activities for the day:

Agenda

Time:            Topic:
8:15am        Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:45am        Introduction & welcome - Chris Pollach
9:00am        PB 11 - John Strano / Dave Fish / Jim O'Neil

• PB 11 Feature Overview
• Smart Client Review
• MobiLink Enhancements
• Web Service DataWindow
• .NET Windows Forms Deployment
• .NET Windows Forms Deployment Using Smart Client

10:15am       Coffee Break

• ASP .NET Deployment
• .NET Debugger
• .NET Interoperability & Conditional Compilation
• NVO Deployment as .NET Assembly
• NVO Deployment as .NET Web Service

12:00noon     Lunch

• Free Catered Lunch and Networking

1:00pm         PB 11 Code Camp - John Strano / Dave Fish / Jim O'Neil

•  Hands-On Computer Labs

2:30pm         Coffee Break 

• Hands-On Computer Labs (Continued)

4:30pm         Q  & A

•   Tips and Techniques!

5:00pm         Wrap-up

Note: In order to participate in the "Lab" exercises, the attendee should have:

• Portable PC with at least 1G of free disk space and 750M RAM
• Windows XP Proffessional / Server SP2 or Windows 2003 SP1
• Latest PB 11 Beta/RC installed
• Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0 or higher
• .NET 2.0 GA (framework version 2.0.50727)
• .NET 2.0 SDK (framework version 2.0.50727)
• IE Web Controls (included with PB 11.net)
• Visual Studio 2005 for the .NET Assembly & .NET Web Service labs.
  
  Please contact Chris Pollach for clarification or help configuring your environment. You do not need a PC to attend!