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The DataWindow is the best gift Powersoft could have given to the development community. A primary marketing tool used to sell PowerBuilder, the DataWindow is the one you save for the end of the argument (and win), the exclamation point in the discussion with the VB guys. Why has no one dedicated a book to it until now?
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I agree the book is excellent. I was a programmer in COBOL, am now working on learning OOP and Powerbuilder. The book looked like an excellent reference. My only issue is the samples are in Powerbuilder 7, and I can't find a way to access them in the Powerbuilder 9 I have. First I have to have Powerbuilder 7 to export them, then I could access them. If they were in exported format as well as compiled, it would be more flexible.

Since Powerbuilder released a new version while he was writing the book, I am suprised he did not think of this and export them on the CD.

If anyone can contact him with that suggestion, please forward it to him. I would enjoy seeing a version written for Powerbuilder 9 and 10, since that adds the XML and replaces the rich text control.


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