http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com John Strano's PowerBuilder Blog Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:00:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A series of posts "A WPF Primer for the PowerBuilder Developer" are now available at… http://blogs.sybase.com/powerbuilder This series will give a concise introduction to WPF concepts from the perspective of the PowerBuilder developer including… Vector-based graphics XAML markup The WPF event model and event sequencing Migration of PowerBuilder to WPF The WPF DataWindow WPF controls new to the ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=290 A series of concise demonstrations of PowerBuilder 12’s PowerBuilder .NET IDE for developing WPF applications is now available on YouTube on the SybasePowerBuilder channel. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=SybasePowerbuilder&aq=f Develop WPF applications while having a “PowerBuilder Experience”! As a reminder, the public CTP (Community Technology Preview) of PowerBuilder 12 is open and can be joined by registering ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=304 As every year, many of you replied in 2008 to Novalys worldwide survey of PowerBuilder users. The thousands of responses received each year allow us monitor how PowerBuilder projects have developed since 2001. Help us to follow the evolution of the PowerBuilder community by completing Novalys' 2009 survey. You will ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=276 Join us during June for user group meetings in Minneapolis, Denver and Houston for a hands-on experience using PowerBuilder 12 .NET to create WPF applications! http://www.isug.com/common/UpcomingEvents.html We will review the PowerBuilder roadmap, specifically as it relates to PowerBuilder 12 before talking about the Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) for PowerBuilder Developers. Then will come ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=271 PDF Version While DataWindow .NET 2.5 is tested, certified and supported with Visual Studio 2005, it may be used with Visual Studio 2008. This document will introduce you to the idiosyncrasies associated with installing and working with DataWindow .NET 2.5 in Visual Studio 2008. As a baseline, let’s first recap what you experience ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=188 Download Source Thank you Sandy Barletta! Just after the earth began to cool (I think it was in the PB3 time frame), I discovered the DWSyntax tool created by Sandy.   ‘Round about that time I had been exporting DataWindow objects (this was before “edit source” folks) in order to get functional syntax ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=129 Greenbrier builds and leases railcars. When the company decided to develop customer interfaces for the Web it chose Sybase EAServer as their Web application server. EAServer gave Greenbrier the features it needed and seamless integration with PowerBuilder code made it the perfect tool to take its large library of PowerBuilder ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=157  Download Source   Here’s a DataWindow tip…and a half. Unless you want to dynamically build a DataWindow object from scratch at runtime (it’s do-able…but quite involved), there’s no direct way to create a group for a DataWindow object in an ad hoc manner. Here’s a workaround. First, insert a computed field in ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=102 Download Source     Perhaps you’ve enabled the titlebar and control menu of a DataWindow control.  You may even want the users to be able to minimize/maximize and reposition the control at runtime.   Now you’d like to trap when the user interacts with the control in this fashion in order to execute some logic ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=64 We are pleased to announce that we are taking our flagship TechWave conference around the world this year.  In response to numerous requests from customers and partners, we will be holding regional TechWave events in major global locations during the second half of 2009. Last year’s TechWave conference received the highest ... http://powerbuilder.johnstrano.com/?p=28