STD Web Service Framework - Version 2015R2 Released!

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Web Service Framework - v2015.2.0.45 - Released!

     Software Tool & Die Inc are please to announce a new release of their Web Service STD Foundation Classes for IIs (STD FC IIs) - Version 2015.2.0.40 (2015R2). The updated Web Service IIs framework is solely targeted to helping PowerBuilder Classic developers, to develop .Net based Web Services and deploy these to IIs. The IIs based framework takes advantage of RAD techniques, employes an MVC (Model, View, Controller) architecture for superior performance, flexibility and extendability!

   All the STD frameworks are free and can be downloaded from its STD Foundation Classes SourceForge project website.

    The Web Service framework - while greatly improving the PB & Appeon developer's productivity - also includes these types of features to help with RAD based projects:

• Helps the PB developer to Implement "stateless" programming
• Does DBMS transaction management automatically
• Manages DataStores for you automatically
• Manages DB updates for you automatically
• Facilitates  MVC design & programming
• Provides Encryption / Decryption services
• Provides extended numerical services (ie: And / Or / Xor / Xand / etc features to PowerScript
• Provides Result Set generation for any data
• Provides HTML generation for any data
• Allows SMTP eMail generation
• Facilitates  Event, Debug and Application logging
• and much more!

    The main updates to the STD Web Service FC's included in Version #2015R2 include: ....   

• Release numbering scheme changed to YYYY(Rn) = Year + Release#
• New INI value "Log_Wrap" (Y/N) that enables/disables Log File wrapping
• New INI value "Log_Wrap_Size" (NNNNNNNN) - threshold when Log File wrapping is engaged.
• New code added to "nc_iis_master" to validate SQLCA, SQLDA, SQLSA, ERROR & MESSAGE classes.
• New global function "FN_NVL" added that implememts the "NULL VALUE" DBMS command in PB.
• New global function "FN_IIN" added that implememts the "IN" DBMS command in PB.
• New code added to "nc_business_master" to check for valid INI & give diagnostics. 
• Tested framework with ...

      - PowerBuilder 12.x, 12.5.x and 12.6
      - Appeon 2013R2 and Appeon 2015.
      - MS-Windows 7, 2008 & 2012.
      - .Net 2.0, .Net 3.5, .Net 4.0 and .Net 4.5
      - IIs 7.0, 7.5

   The STD Web Service and other PB frameworks are free and can be downloaded from the STD Foundation Classes SourceForge project website.

Regards   ... Chris