For the past three months
I've been looking at new
products or new versions
of products that Sybase
is introducing and
reviewing some of my
concerns with them. My
general sense is that
Sybase is often headed in
the right direction, ...
A week ago one of my
customers asked me to do
a presentation on Sybase
DataWindow.NET. We
discussed what they would
like to see (besides all
the standard stuff all
PowerBuilder shops want
to see, such as a
Master/Detail DataWindow
...
Sybase has recently
included impact analysis
features into the
PowerDesigner (PD)
modeling tool. If you
aren't familiar with PD,
it's a powerful tool for
modeling business
processes, data designs,
XML messages, and
application log...
I went to Vienna for the
Sybase Development Tools
Boot Camp in November, my
first trip to Europe.
Haven't seen much yet,
except the duty free
sections of the airports,
after my 10-hour flight
from Johannesburg, and a
nice three-hour...
As I was reviewing my
previous 'state of the
application' and began to
work toward a basic
application shell, I
realized that there was
some additional code that
I needed to write.
If you've read any of my
past articles, you know
that I love a good
challenge, a challenge
that really gets me
thinking and ultimately
ends up teaching me
something. One thing I
always wanted to do was
create dockable windows
usin...
Remember the excitement
you felt when you first
learned to develop
applications with
PowerBuilder? Instead of
taking three weeks to
build a window like your
C counterparts, you were
painting windows in less
than three minutes - and ...
The PowerBuilder
Developer's Resource
(PBDR) released PBDelta
v5.1.1. This update fixes
a number of bugs and
makes improvements to the
installation procedure of
site license customers. A
new page has been created
giving full details...
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Two of the biggest
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Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be
Sybase has just released
the latest version of its
premier .NET development
tool in PowerBuilder
version 11.2. I am proud
to say that I haven't
missed a beta since
November 1989 (version
0.8) and that includes
PocketBuilder and
InfoMaker too. I need to
thank the people at
Sybase for co
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
HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out to
PowerBuilder Libraries
(PBLs) and checking
objects in from PBLs.
These operations are
non-standard to most
source cont
Back in 2002, Sybase
announced their
four-phase approach
toward adding .NET
support to PowerBuilder.
Phase 1 was the
implementation of web
services in PB9 and Phase
2 was the release of
DataWindow.NET, which was
packaged with PB 10.
Phases 3 and 4 were the
more significant phases.
In P
I have been asked many
times by various clients,
students, and the IT
curious about
PowerBuilder: When did
Sybase develop the
product and how did it
evolve? I keep telling
this story and answering
e-mails on the subject. I
am now to the point where
I have decided that I
should have PBD
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HarPB is a specialized
utility for checking
PowerBuilder source
objects in and out of
AllFusion Harvest. It
handles the special
requirements of checking
objects out
I began my career at RCA
Aerospace and Defense in
1983 and worked at MITRE
Corp., BAE Systems, and
the State of NH. I worked
in the defense field
performing software
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