Microsoft Visual Studio
has excellent
multi-language support
both at design time and
runtime, while Sybase
DataWindow.NET doesn't
have that. In this
article we'll consider
how to implement
multi-language data
presentation using
...
Recently, I needed to
have FTP support embedded
in a PowerBuilder
application that I was
writing for my day job.
Since PowerBuilder lacks
the ability to natively
manipulate sockets (a big
negative, Sybase), a
third-party solution ha...
In DataWindow.NET 2.0,
Sybase added support for
access to Oracle through
the Oracle managed data
provider (ODP.NET). A
managed data provider
provides better
performance and more
support than a
non-managed driver for
database-speci...
In the first article we
presented a some theories
about the ClassDefinition
object and were able to
show the libraries of a
PB application in a
treeview control. This
month we'll read the
objects from the
libraries and inspect
the...
When we last left off, we
had a functional shell of
an application. We had a
menu that would open our
five different sheets
(Controls, Users,
Messages, Menus, and
Contacts); we had the
shell of those five
sheets themselves; we had
...
This month we'll take an
in-depth look at the new
features introduced or
existing features
enhanced in
DataWindow.NET 2.0. In
summary, DataWindow.NET
20 includes the
following:
PBDR.com announced a
major upgrade of PBDoc to
version 3.0. PBDoc is a
tool for generating
professional
documentation directly
from PowerBuilder source
code.
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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
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
PowerBuilder 11 deploys
entire applications as
.NET Windows Form or Web
Form applications and
deploys individual
components as .NET
Assemblies and as .NET
Web Services. Version 11
consumes resources of the
default .NET framework as
well as resources of
custom developer-defined
.NET res
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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
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