One of the first things you'll notice when you open up the File -> New -> DataWindow dialog is the new TreeView DataWindow presentation style (see Figure 1). The first thing you'll actually notice is that all of the IDE icons have more of an XP style, but then you'll notice the new presentation style. Once you've double-clicked on that you'll see the same series of dialogs that you're already familiar with from the other presentation styles, in which you select the data source, the tables to use, the columns in the tables, etc.

One of the 'new' features in PowerBuilder 10.5 was actually initially introduced in the PowerBuilder 10.2 maintenance release. The folks at Sybase finally addressed a number of fundamental issues with database tracing for deployed applications.

In addition to the other new features in PowerBuilder 10.5 that we've covered in this issue, there are a number that do bear mentioning but aren't significant enough to merit a separate article. I've grouped them together in this 'miscellaneous' enhancements discussion. I'm going to look at a few of those, pretty much in alphabetical order.

Two things have my interest these days: the arrival of PB 10.5 and TechWave 2006! (Yes, that's right, I'm already planning ahead.) So, I thought I'd take this opportunity to roll a little application using MS MapPoint to illustrate what's new in PowerBuilder 10.5 Web services as well as help me plot my way from Chicago to Las Vegas for this year's conference! (see Figure 1).

One new long-anticipated feature of PowerBuilder 10.5 was originally planned for the PowerBuilder 10.0 release: the new Rich Text Edit (RTE) control. The original RTE control (see Figure 1) was introduced into PowerBuilder before Microsoft implemented a Rich Edit Control within the Windows Common Controls. Since there wasn't a 'standard' rich edit control in the operating system, many developers were using third-party controls to implement such functionality. In addition, at that point, cross-platform availability was a requirement, since PowerBuilder was available for development on Mac and UNIX platforms. One of the most popular third-party controls was called HighEdit, and the original PowerBuilder RTE control was an OEM version of that control.