STD Web Service Framework - Version 2016R0 Released!

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Web Service Framework - v2016.0.0.55 - Released!

     Software Tool & Die Inc are pleased to announce a new release of their Web Service STD Foundation Classes for IIs (STD FC IIs) - version 2016.0.0.55 (2016R0). The updated Web Service IIs framework is solely targeted to helping PowerBuilder Classic developers, to help develop .Net based Web Services and deploy these to IIs. The IIs based framework takes advantage of RAD techniques, employs an MVC (Model, View, Controller) architecture for superior performance, flexibility and extend ability! The STD Web Service framework is 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 2016R0 include:

• Removed the "Crypto32.DLL" and "CW3220.DLL" files from the framework!
• Rebuilt the framework's documentation set using Visual Expert 2015 build 2015.0.15.1109
• Framework documentation now available as a separate ZIP file
• Removed external references to the "Crypto32" and "CW3220" DLL's in the nc_crypto_master base class.
• Added new function "of_base64_stringtobinary" to the nc_crypto_master base class.
• Added new function "of_base64_binarytostring" to the nc_crypto_master base class.
• Added double quotes around the XOPY file names to handle file path spaces (nc_business_class_master).
• Ported "ns_DS_WebService_Master" class from the Integrated framework for processing within IIs.
• Ported "nc_cipher_master" class from the Integrated framework for processing within IIs.
• Deprecated the "nc_cypher_master" class.
• Revised MS-Windows API declarations to match the Integrated Framework.Tested framework with ...

      - PowerBuilder 12.x, 12.5.x and 12.6
      - Appeon 2015R2.
      - MS-Windows 7, 10, 2008 & 2012.
      - .Net 2.0, .Net 3.5, .Net 4.0 and .Net 4.5
      - IIs 7.0, 7.5, 8.0, & 10.0

   STD would like to thank Novalys Corporation for their support of the Foundation Classes by supplying the VisualExpert product for the framework's documentation.

Regards .... Chris