The EAServer .NET client is one of the most important features in EAServer 6.1. This new feature enables .NET to communicate with EAServer components using IIOP. It provides underlying marshaling support for PowerBuilder's WinForm applications with EAServer and it's also a way to inter...

This article is based on my presentation at TechWave 2007 and is intended for the beginner or moderately experienced PowerBuilder developer. I hope to share some of the useful information I've picked up as an application developer using PowerBuilder and EAServer.

Back in August of 2006, I wrote an article about calling .NET components from PowerBuilder using COM wrappers (i.e., CCW). Since I was basing it on a registry entry approach, the technique demonstrated required the component to be added to the GAC, which in turn required that we create...

Most of the applications we software developers build need to interact somehow with data from a database. The .NET Framework defined by Microsoft provides a rich set of objects to manage database interaction; these classes are collectively referred to as ADO.NET and the latest versions...

Over the past year, I've been discussing some of the various technologies found inside SQL Server 2005. Three of these technologies are CLR integration, HTTP endpoints, and Service Broker. (Articles on these topics were published, respectively, in the November 2005, March 2006, and Nov...