PBTV - June 2011 Schedule

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Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV

Summer's almost here and so is the June 2011 webinar schedule!

Thursday June 16th at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris) How to let end users customize their applications If end users know best how they want their applications to look, why not let them customize screens and reports themselves? We’ll introduce a tool that provides an innovative new way to let them customize applications and reports without touching the source code. You've never seen customization like this! Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

Tuesday June 21st at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Using PowerBuilder Custom Visual User Objects in Visual Studio With PowerBuilder 12.5, Custom Visual User Objects (CVUOs) can be deployed as WPF User Control libraries. Bring the power of the DataWindow to C# and VB .NET solutions. Become the star of any .NET development team! Presenter: John Strano

Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!

Regards ... Chris

PBTV May 2011

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 Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV...

Tuesday May 10th at 10:00am EST (New York) / 16:00 CET (Paris) Transfer Knowledge of PowerBuilder Code Do you have plans to update your applications this year, but its original developers have left the project? How will you reconstruct the knowledge of the application's inner-workings? How can you transfer this knowledge to staff or sub-contractors? In this presentation, we'll show you a tool to: - Facilitate the understanding of the code by a team new to the application - Avoid side effects from changes made to the application Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

Thursday May 19th at 10:00am EST (New York) / 16:00 CET (Paris) The New Features in Enable 3.5 We’ll introduce you to the new features found in Enable 3.5. More than 100 changes have been introduced in the Rex panel to improve runtime changes. This new version also includes an important architectural change allowing you to provide customized layout and properties. This will allow end users to customize the multilingual application using a Customization module. Presenter: Gian Luca De Bonis

Have you seen the new website? Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars while you are there!
 
Regards ... Chris
 

PB12.5 Public Beta Has Started!

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  The PowerBuilder version 12.5 public beta has started this week! You can join the program and download the software from this link <click here>. PB 12.5 includes the following new feature highlights (and more) ....


PowerBuilder 12.5 Features

• The ability to deploy custom visual user objects as .NET assemblies for use in other .NET applications.
• A new WCF Service feature that allows business logic written in PowerBuilder to be deployed as a web service.
• New options to make creating, compiling and deploying .NET applications faster and easier than ever before
• DataWindow enhancements for both WPF and PowerBuilder Classic.
• Language enhancements and support for .NET events
• The ability to call REST based web services
• Numerous IDE enhancements and more. 

    When you register to download PB 12.5, you will also be able to download further documentation that describes in detail the new and revised features of both PB Classic and PB.Net.

Enjoy!

Regards ... Chris

PowerBuilder 12.5 – Get Ready!

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PowerBuilder 12.5 Overview

    Join PowerBuilder Evangelist and resident .NET Rockstar Dave Fish, for this hour long webcast that will cover the exciting features you can expect to find in this new release!  The PowerBuilder 12.5 Beta will be available in April, 2011 and this webcast will give you an overview of the new features included in this release.  Attendees will learn about features like WCF Services, deploying custom visual user objects (CVUOs) as .NET assemblies, DataWindow enhancements, and more.

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Europe

Date: April 21 2011
Time: 12:00pm EDT (New York) / 18:00 CEST (Paris)
Presenter: Dave Fish
Register:   Click here

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North America

Tuesday, April 26, 2011
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. ET
(10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. PT)
Presenter: Dave Fish
Register:   Click here

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 PowerBuilder 12.5 – Get Ready, ‘Cause Here It Comes!

Regards ... Chris
 

PBTV April, 2011

Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV

Happy 1st birthday PowerBuilderTV - 1 year old on April.1, 2011!

Tuesday April 5th at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Carving Up Classic Client/Server Applications For .NET Deployment: Using the New .NET Project Partitioning Feature The March 12.1 PowerBuilder EBF contains a new tool and technology that enables you to overcome deployment issues that might impede .NET migration.  You might even be able to organize your code in a way that enables you to restore RAD development to its rightful position in PowerBuilder.NET deployment. Yakov Werde, member of TeamSybase and a PowerBuilder MVP will walk you though the ins and outs of the new partitioning feature "by-example".  He'll demonstrate the proper use of the new tool that allows you to configure your deployment architecture. Presenter: Yakov Werde

Thursday April 14th at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris) Take your commercial applications to the next level During this webcast, you will see how to evolve your commercial applications and win new clients: secure your SaaS applications, make your application customizable by your clients, protect your source code against reverse engineering, and support multiple languages to open new markets. Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

Thursday April 21st at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) PowerBuilder 12.5 Overview The PowerBuilder 12.5 Beta will be available in April and this webcast will give you an overview of the new features included in this release.  Attendees will learn about features like WCF Services, deploying custom visual user objects (CVUOs) as .NET assemblies, DataWindow enhancements, and more. Presenter: Dave Fish

Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!

Regards ... Chris

TechCast

ISUG TECHCAST

The North American PowerBuilder Virtual User Group and mLogica Present:

Carving Up Classic Client/Server Applications for .NET Deployment Using the New .NET Project Partitioning Feature

Sponsored by: 

    The March 12.1 PowerBuilder EBF contains a new tool and technology that enables you to overcome deployment issues that might impede .NET migration.  You might even be able to organize your code in a way that enables you to restore RAD development to its rightful position in PowerBuilder.NET deployment.  

Yakov Werde, member of TeamSybase and a PowerBuilder MVP will walk you though the ins and outs of the new partitioning feature "by-example".  He'll demonstrate the proper use of the new tool that allows you to configure your deployment architecture.  He'll also show you how to work around issues that might surface during partitioning.  He'll explain how to determine inter-assembly dependencies, determine if any circular dependencies exist, reorganize your code object storage scheme to eliminate them, and determine where you will store your global types

Wednesday, March 23rd
10am-11am PDT
1pm-2pm EDT
5-6pm GMT 

 Regards ... Chris

PB.NET Debugger

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"Kool" Webinar Coming!

    One great feature of the new PowerBuilder .NET IDE is the .NET debugger. Join Sybase for the webcast "Fun with the PowerBuilder .NET Debugger" on Wednesday March 2, 2011 (1-2pm Eastern) to learn more.

    The presentation will feature some cool and powerful new features that PowerBuilder can now
leverage via the Visual Studio shell. You host - John Strano - will be covering topics such as:

• Debugger advantages with the VS Isolated Shell
• Drag and drop breakpoint locations
• Variable Watch window
• TipWatch
• Conditonal breakpoints on specific variable values and number of loop
• iterations (Hit counts)
• Conditionally printing to an output log
• Running to a specified function on the call stack
• Stepping into, through and out of C#!

Click here to register for this webcast. http://app.en25.com/e/er.aspx?s=184&lid=14423&elq=3b3e967136a34b348cea246bf61d9c33

  For more information on PowerBuilder 12 please visit www.sybase.com/powerbuilder12.


Regards ... Chris

PBTV March 2011

 Upcoming webinars on PowerBuilderTV

 

For March, take some time to update your PowerBuilder skills and applications with PBTV webinars ...

  

Tuesday March 15th TWO sessions at 11:00 CET (Paris) OR 12:00pm EST (New York) Modernize your PowerBuilder applications Do you want to bring your legacy PowerBuilder applications up to date? In this webinar we’ll show you solutions to simply and effectively add innovative features, such as deploying your application on the web, renovating the user interface, reusing Windows Accounts, providing multilingual features, and more… You’ll come away ready to give your applications a facelift! Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle Click here to register for the EUROPE session 11:00am Paris time Click here to register for the NORTH AMERICA session 12:00pm New York time

Tuesday March 29th at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Dockable Windows Dock'em, tab'em, float'em, pull'em onto multiple monitors! On March 29th, see yet one more way you can benefit from PowerBuilder 12 and WPF. Join John Strano to see how you and your team can take advantage of dockable windows to enhance the UX of your PowerBuilder applications. Presenter: John Strano

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Thursday April 14th at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris) Take your commercial applications to the next level During this webcast, you will see how to evolve your commercial applications and win new clients: secure your SaaS applications, make your application customizable by your clients, protect your source code against reverse engineering, and support multiple languages to open new markets. Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

 Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!

Regards .. Chris

PBTV - January 2011

1PowerBuilderTV listings for January, 2011!

Happy New Year!

Thursday January 20th at 10:00am EST (New York) / 16:00 CET (Paris) How to make your application multilingual with Enable 3.5 In this webinar, you will see how to upgrade your applications to a multilingual interface with just a few, simple changes to your code. New Enable 3.5 allows you to translate the application and adapt the User Interface in runtime. Presenter: Gian Luca de Bonis

Tuesday January 25th at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Tutorial: Migrating from PowerBuilder Classic to .NET You asked and we listened! In this webinar, we'll show you a step-by-step tutorial on how to migrate a PowerBuilder classic application to PB .NET Presenter: John Strano

Click to see the full schedule or learn more

Don't forget to check out the archive of past webinars!

 Regards ...Chris

 

PB12.NET Training Day

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    The International Sybase User Group in conjunction with eLearnIt Systems is now offering a new one day PowerBuilder 12.NET training course. In this a full day of training where you will gain the knowledge and skills to prepare you to plan, perform a .NET migration and tips on re-factoring your enterprise level based PowerBuilder Classic applications.  You will able to follow-along with instructor led demonstrations using provided code examples if you bring your own notebook with verified functioning installations of PowerBuilder 12.1 Classic and .NET and SQL AnyWhere 11.

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Topics include:

•  .NET Revealed:

          * What is it?
          * What are the important features and how do they affect your PowerBuilder application?
          * Why might .NET be (or not be) important to you?

• Migrating from Classic to .NET WPF

          See how to:
          * To plan for your own application migration by getting an overview of the .NET migration process
          * To plan for re-factoring your code to lessen the impact of not supported features
          * Performance differences between the platforms might impact your existing code
          * GUI differences between the platforms might impact your code

• Future proofing your code, planning for today, tomorrow and beyond.

      The .NET and Classic platforms are intrinsically different. A large application that took seconds to modify and test in the IDE will takes many minutes to modify and test in the .NET IDE. In order to continue at a high productivity level you must partition your code into a series of related .NET assemblies. In this segment you will gain learn the basics of application logic partitioning and how to use the IDE to carve your application into smaller manageable pieces

• Visual Studio IDE tips & tricks

      The new .NET IDE is similar to but different than the Classic IDE in fundamental ways. The goal of this presentation. Increase your initial and ongoing productivity by learning how to leverage many of the new features that the Visual Studio IDE offers. Included is a demonstration of configuring and working with source code control.

• WCF and web services: Creating .NET web service client applications with examples and demonstrations

      Windows Communication Foundation is a new feature of .NET 3.5. WCF will be an imperative when SilverLight support is implemented. It is required when you migrate Classic Applications that are Web Service Clients to .NET or need to code new web service client applications in PB 12.NET. Learn the basics of WCF. Observe the process of building a Web Service Client app.

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       To have this course brought to your area, please contact your local Sybase User Group to arrange a class in your locale.


Regards ... Chris