PowerBuilder TV - PowerGen 2016

Tuesday, October 11, 2016
at 8:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 17H00 PM CET (Paris).

Automating the PowerBuilder Build Process with PowerGen 2016

    An essential tool to automate the building of PowerBuilder applications, it lets you use command line functions to automate the entire build, create libraries from object source. With PowerGen, you can control your builds with predictability and reliability.

Presenter: Phil Wallingford

   

Regards ... Chris

PowerBuilder TV - BootStrap for PowerBuilder!

Tuesday, October 4, 2016
at 8:00 AM PDT (Los Angeles) / 17H00 CEST (Paris)

Bootstrap for PowerBuilder

                                                      

   Download the source files of a PBT from your source control system and import the objects into empty PowerBuilder library files that it creates for you. Follow that up with any rebuilds and regenerates that are needed to get all objects to compile successfully.
With PowerBuilder Bootstrap, you will be able to:

• Extract all source code files for a target from a source control system.
• Create new library files for a target and import all the object source code files.
• Generate a new PBC file for a Workspace.
• Optimize all libraries for a target.
• Compile the executable files for a target and copy to a deployment folder.

Presenter: Roland Smith

   

Regards ... Chris

Installable Web Applications

Hi Everyone;

    Here is another interesting new feature in the Appeon 2016 product released on September 9, 2016 - called the Installable Web Application or IWA for short! The IWA feature is automatically available when you upgrade your Appeon Server to the 2016 release. Once your PowerBuilder application has been deployed to the Appeon Server as a Web Application, you can now also deploy this directly to an MS-WIndows desktop user. The deployed IWA application runs like a locally installed WIn32 application. The benefits of an IWA are:

• The deployment of your Appeon Web app should be more straightforward and reliable as you eliminate a key environment dependency
• No longer require configuration of the Web browser plug-in.
• IWAs are easier to launch since they are resident on the user’s machine and have shortcuts.
• In terms of performance, response times are similar to the web browser model but IWAs will consume less client-side memory.

    Before you deploy the IWA application, you can complete the new IWA properties found in the Appeon Developer tool that is integrated with the PowerBuilder IDE, as follows:

  Once the IWA properties are completed, you can simply install the IWA from you web browser, as follows: http:////IAWRunner.html. The IAW Runner application will install like a any Set-up.exe into the client machine and become a launcher for your PB based IWA application. For example ...

           

When you update the PowerBuilder application on the Appeon Server, all the IWA desktop deployments are automatically updated as well the next time they start!

And basically, that's IWA in a nutshell! 

Regards ... Chris