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PowerBuilder has almost entirely lost mind share. In order to reintroduce PowerBuilder to a new generation of developers, Sybase should treat it like a new product. When it was originally being developed, PowerSoft used the product internally and also partnered with clients, providing ...Jun. 28, 2006 12:45 PM EDT Reads: 11,182 Replies: 3
Finally, here is a solution that will resolve, once and for all, a problem I've been having ever since I started my development: how to easily secure my application according to the user profile.
Software is the engine of our economy, at the root of almost everything we do. Our success rate has been creeping up in recent years, but one thing is sure: there has been no major breakthrough. What will it take?
Sybase announced the availability of Sybase PowerBuilder 10.5, the next-generation rapid application development tool. PowerBuilder 10.5 features key functionality enhancements and improves the DataWindow, an industry leading patented data access, presentation, and manipulation tool. T...
One of the first things you'll notice when you open up the File->New->DataWindow dialog in DataWindow Designer 2.0 is the new TreeView DataWindow presentation style (see Figure 1). Once you've double-clicked on that, you'll see the same series of dialogs that you're already familiar wi...
Statistics Canada provides aggregated census, social and economic survey information to the public while protecting sensitive details - and offering multi-years' worth of data online using Sybase technology.
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.
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 DataWindow.NET. DataWindow.NET has two integral parts. One...
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 had to be found or I was going to be tempting the wrath ...
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 their content. When a user expands an entry in the treeview...
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-specific functions, though not as much as the Oracle native d...
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 some basic shared functionality with regards to managin...
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:
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.
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 that can be fed to a third-party EZSetup program to creat...
I'm the 'tech chair' of SYS-CON's 10th annual SOA and WebServices conference that will take place on June 5-6 in New York City. Last week I've invited Joel Spolsky to make a keynote speech at this event. Guess what, Joel has accepted my invitation! If you have a chance to attend this t...
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 one or two more items to it:
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 tedious, I decided to write down what information I cou...
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 attention when we see it in the debugger.
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?
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.
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 pre...
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.
PowerBuilder 10.5 is almost ready, and I'm sure you have a lot of questions about what's in the release and how it can make your job easier. You are also probably wondering why it's called '10.5,' how it fits in with our roadmap for PowerBuilder, and what our plans are for tools in gen...
After continually reinstalling my PocketBuilder application, ASA, and PocketBuilder on my Symbol handheld scanner unit each time I rebooted the unit, I felt 'enough is enough...'
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 lo...
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 a...
One of the long awaited features introduced in PowerBuilder 10.5 is support for contemporary (aka Office XP) menus and toolbars. The first difference you'll notice is that the flat contemporary style and new icons are used extensively throughout the PowerBuilder IDE itself (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 Win...
This month we take an in-depth look at the new features introduced or existing features enhanced in PowerBuilder 10.5. Even though it is not a full point release, it (like 6.5) is a full major release. In order to get many of these enhancements to the user (you and me) sooner, Sybase s...
We have a long way to go before the next generation of the Web truly arrives. Years and years. As commentator Shel Israel has said: 'Web 2.0 isn't dead. It's just barely being born.' In line with its commitment to keep developers, IT managers, and vendors alike ahead of the i-Technolog...
