PB12.NET Training Day

** Hot News **

   

    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

ISUG - PB12 Benefit Update

** Update on PowerBuilder 12 Benefit **

   ISUG has announced that Sybase is now releasing orders for their Powerbuilder 12 member benefit.  If you have ordered this benefit, and you have correctly submitted your signed license form, you may have already received your download instructions or you'll be receiving them shortly.

   ISUG have identified some issues with this process and are taking steps with Sybase to try and reduce the turn-around time significantly.  They definitely understand the frustration and did not originally anticipate it taking this long to fulfill this membership benefit.  The good news is that ISUG and Sybase appear to now be getting over the hump and are expecting a much smoother process moving forward from this point.

   Please note that Sybase is rejecting a few signed license forms.  In order to meet auditor requirements, if your license form contains your company name, then your ISUG email address must be your company email address in the form @yourcompany.com.  If your ISUG email address does not match, but you have a company email address ISUG can make that change very easily.  If you do not, ISUG will need to get a new signed license form from you without your company name. ISUG will be contacting any members whose licenses are rejected to get straightened out ASAP.

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PS: So renew or sign-up for an ISUG green or gold membership today and take advantage of your PB 12.net benefit - plus ... enter into a draw to win a "kool" iPad!
PPS: Also, check out the ISUG blogs and their new e-learning initiatives for PowerBuilder and ASE!

Regards ... Chris

Ouch

** Oracle awarded $1.3B in damages against SAP **

 The amount is slightly less than Oracle's damages expert recommended but far more than SAP had said it should pay. To read the full story, click here.


 I guess Sybase needs to sell a lot more PowerBuilder!    :-)


Chris

PB 12.Net

    PowerBuilder is the declarative application development environment for building, maintaining and modernizing business-critical Windows applications. With PowerBuilder, all you need is your current skill-set to do a variety of application development PowerBuilder is simply the easiest way for developers to create the most updated, visually appealing business applications on the latest Windows platforms – on time and under budget.

 Check out this great video from Sue Dunnell - PB's product manager!

Regards ... Chris

PBTV - December, 2010

** Hot News **

PowerBuilder TV listing for the month of December, 2010!

Thursday December 2nd at 10:00am EST (New York) / 16:00 CET (Paris) Combine PB, .NET and Java Access Control in a single tool Companies rarely work with applications in a single technology. But securing each application with a different system means a lot of repetitive user administration. See how a single access control system can secure all your applications. Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

Tuesday December 7th at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris) Version control using PowerBuilder and Subversion In this webcast we will show you how to use PowerBuilder in a multiple developer work environment, so several people can use simultaneously the same PBL and keep track of the versions of each object modified. We will also show you how to install and configure the free tools for this task and how to use them with PowerBuilder in its different versions. Presented in Spanish Presenter: Oscar Tobar

I hope that you can make these exciting presentations!

Regards ... Chris

 

PBTV - November, 2010

** Hot News **

PowerBuilder TV listing for the month of November!

Tuesday November 2nd at 11:00am EST (New York) / 17:00 CET (Paris) What's new in Appeon 6.5? Appeon 6.5 is the latest release of the most-popular Web deployment solution for PowerBuilder. This release of Appeon boasts support for PowerBuilder 12, JBoss open-source application server, and 64-bit OS, just to name a few. We will spend 30 minutes to guide you through the key new features of Appeon 6.5. Presenter: Armeen Mazda

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Tuesday November 16th at 10:00am EST (New York) / 16:00 CET (Paris) Make your application customizable in a few minutes When users want to adapt screens or build custom reports, it generates additional costs. If multiple clients request different changes, it becomes even more complicated. Find out how to simplify that process: we'll introduce a tool to let users customize screens and reports by themselves, without any technical skill, and using only an executable copy of the application (no change to the source code). Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle

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Tuesday November 23rd at 12:00pm EST (New York) / 18:00 CET (Paris) Using PowerBuilder and Expression Blend Together WPF is all about creating a rich User Experience. Come see how Expression Blend, Microsoft's WPF design tool, helps you to build powerful and sophisticated PowerBuilder user interfaces. Presenter: John Strano

Regards ... Chris

Appeon 6.5 & jBoss

Appeon 6.5 now supports JBoss

Appeon 6.5, the most powerful and flexible version of the go-to web deployment tool to date. Appeon 6.5 introduces support for the JBoss Platform; take advantage of the popular open-source platform and Appeon brings you these new features while preserving stability and performance!

Appeon 6.5 also includes:

•  Support for the latest Software: PowerBuilder 12 Classic, Windows 7, EAServer 6.3, and Sybase's SQL Anywhere 12 DBMS.
•  Deployment to multi-instance servers
•  Calls to web services without any additional plug-ins
•  and more!

Discover Appeon 6.5 for PowerBuilder! With Appeon, maintain a single version of your application and deploy it in client/server and to the Web. The PB code is automatically converted to .NET or Java during deployment:

• No significant change to the architecture
• No effort spent rewriting the code
• The users will find the same interface they are already comfortable with

Appeon Flash Animations

  Watch new videos to find out more about Appeon ... 

•  Introduction to Appeon
•  How Appeon can help your project
•  See an application deployed with Appeon
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Try Appeon 6.5 for PowerBuilder free now from Appeon corporation itself or one of its distributors:  Sybase or Novalys. For those individuals who have an ISUG membership, you can get a full (unrestricted) developer version for free with your Gold or Green membership!


Regards ... Chris
PS: Check out my free Foundation Classes for PB and Appeon!

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PB12 ISUG Benefit - Active!

** Hot News **

    The International Sybase User Group (ISUG) are pleased to announce that their newest member benefit, PowerBuilder 12, is now available to both the Green and Gold level members! This member benefit is a fully-functional, personal-use copy of PowerBuilder 12 Enterprise (which includes both the Classic and .NET versions of PB).  However, unlike the previous NFR program, this benefit is strictly for personal use, and it tied to your ISUG membership.  You will be required to download, sign and return a license agreement that outlines these terms before you receive your copy.  Your right to use this license will expire at the earliest of your paid membership expiration or 12 months. These small changes are a result of abuse with prior versions of the PowerBuilder benefit and while they will be a minor inconvenience ISUG believes that you will appreciate this new offering.

   Also, don't forget that if you upgrade your membership or renew your membership before the end of September, you'll be eligible for our member drawing of a portable hard drive! So login to your ISUG membership account today, renew your (or upgrade to) Green / Gold membership if you want to or need to, and then go to 'My Benefits' to learn how to acquire your personal copy of PowerBuilder 12 today!

ISUG WebSite

Regards ... Chris

TopWiz Update

** Hot News **

Roland Smith of TopWiz recently updated the Winsock example on his website along with the examples that are based on it - EmailSMTP, PBChat and the new EmailPOP3.

The error handling in n_winsock was completely rewritten, most functions now return a boolean with True=Success or False=Failure and the MessageBox function calls have been removed. If an error happens, your code can call a new of_GetLastError method to get the error message text. It also has a new form of the of_Listen function that doesn't require a window handle.

The SMTP email object n_smtp has several new capabilities. The new of_AddAttachment function replaces of_AddFile and allows the developer tp attach blob variables in addition to files. Other new functions include of_AddCustomHeader and of_SetPriority.

The POP3 example can be used to download email from a mail server. It returns the email as a string that can be saved as a .eml file. Eventually, the plan is to add more functions to separate out the message body and attachments.

Enjoy .... Chris

ISUG User Group Meetings in September

** Hot News **

 Please note the following up coming International Sybase User Group meetings scheduled for the September, 2010 time frame ...

• September 14 - Sybase Northwest User Group Meeting (Washington)
• September 15 - Sybase Northwest User Group Meeting (Oregon)
• September 15 - ISUG Techcast (Details coming soon...)
  
• September 21 - New York City PowerBuilder User Group Meeting
  
• September 23 - Dallas Sybase Users Group of Texas
  
• September 28 - Philadelphia Sybase User Group Meeting

 I hope that you can attend one in your area!

Regards ... Chris