It's that time again - I
was invited to be the
guest editor for another
issue of PBDJ. It's the
second time now, and I
want to say thank you to
the many people who
helped me a lot within
the past year.
We begin this article by
answering a few
questions. Namely, what
is VoIP? What is Skype?
And why would you want to
integrate these
capabilities into your
PowerBuilder
applications?
The ClassDefinition
object was introduced in
PowerBuilder 6.0 a long
time ago. It allows you
to retrieve information
for an object at runtime.
Most of us didn't pay too
much attention to this
object and it only
attracts our attentio...
PowerBuilder provides the
send() function to send
messages to the Windows
objects. The information
about its usage is
fragmentary and widely
dispersed throughout the
help and manuals. Since
searching for this
information was quite
...
First the good news:
PowerBuilder is a great
tool; in fact you can't
accidentally do much
wrong. This strength is
based on a number of
reasons. The following is
list of why I think
PowerBuilder is so great,
but you might like to add...
Did you know you can make
automated installs for
your PocketPC and
SmartPhone applications
created with
PocketBuilder? When you
use a PocketBuilder
project to compile your
application, it
automatically creates an
_setup.ini file t...
When Silicon Valley's
renowned Kepler's Books
almost folded in August
2005, loyal patrons
grieved, but no one in
the book business was
surprised. Statistics
from the American
Booksellers Association
show that many bookstores
operate in the red.
Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
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
In keeping with the
longstanding SYS-CON
tradition of being at the
very forefront of
software development with
all its online and
offline resources,
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Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
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
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