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One of the questions that I've been pondering lately is what will become of Windows. Based on the buzz about BYOD (bring your own device), tablets and the like, and the less-than-stellar reception of Windows 8 and Surface (Microsoft's Windows 8 tablet), you'd think that Windows was on its last legs. Combine this with the "death of the PC" hype, and things look bleak. They would look particularly bleak for PowerBuilder developers for two reasons. First, the PowerBuilder IDE is only available for the Windows platform. There were versions available for the Mac and UNIX at one point, and I used both, but they never generated enough sales to warrant the amount of support required to maintain them. Second, PowerBuilder essentially generates targets that - for the most part - only run on Windows devices. The Win32, .NET Windows Forms, .NET Assembly targets in PowerBuilder C... (more)

The PowerBuilder .NET IDE

For the past year plus I've been spending a lot of time working with a web-based BI tool (the development is actually done in a plug-in to Eclipse, but the end users access the results through a browser). The tool reminds me a lot of the DataWindow. You create objects that can either map directly to a database table or are based on textual SQL. Those objects are then combined into a composite object that the user can access to do ad-hoc queries without having to know how the underlying tables are related. The data connection is abstracted from the data access layer, and the repor... (more)

Creation and Consumption of Web Services with PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder 12.5 introduced a number of significant enhancements to web services support, both for creation and consumption. In particular, the following were introduced as new features in PowerBuilder.NET: WCF client proxy WCF service target REST client proxy We're going to look at what those new features provide and how to use them. We're also going to look at how we can package some of that functionality so that it can be used from PowerBuilder Classic applications as well. Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) First though, some background. When support for a web service client... (more)

Come on in, the Forums Are Fine…

What forums you may ask; the Sybase NNTP forums? No, those are going away. Not on the schedule that was originally proposed (December 1 of 2012), but they will go away soon. Replacing them are the online discussion forums in the PowerBuilder Development Center (PDC), part of the SAP Community Network (SCN). Never fear though, the information on the Sybase NNTP forums aren't going away; a searchable archive of the messages will be available. If you've been using PowerBuilder for a long period of time, then you'll know we've gone through a similar transition before. We started in on... (more)

Upcoming PowerBuilder Events in Europe #fb

Dave Fish will be presenting at both of the following user group events: 11/11  Prague, Czech Republic http://www.sybase.cz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=154:nove-user-groups-na-prvni-tvrtleti-roku-2010&catid=24:akce 11/16 Vienna, Austria http://www.sybase.at/country.jsp?show=event&sub=PowerBuilder12 ... (more)