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

  ** Hot News **

"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

** 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