NET is becoming (or rather it has already become) a mainstream application
development platform for developing both Windows Forms applications and Web
applications, and more and more companies have adopted the .NET technology.
Sybase anticipated this trend two years ago and developed a PowerBuilder .NET
strategy. In that strategy, we decided to support .NET in four major steps.
In the first step, we released with PowerBuilder 9 a PBNI extension called
the WebServiceClient that enables PowerBuilder to consume .NET Web services.
In the second step, we released a new product - DataWindow.NET - that makes
the patented DataWindow technology available to .NET developers. The
PowerBuilder .NET compiler is the next step in the strategy. In this article,
I'll give a brief introdu... (more)
From the PowerBuilder forums I've discovered that quite a few people are
requesting a feature that allows them to write console applications with
PowerBuilder. PowerBuilder doesn't support this feature natively right now,
but we can already do it with PowerBuilder 9Swith the help of PBNI.
There are two reasons you can't create console applications with the
PowerBuilder IDE. One, PowerBui... (more)
XML is becoming the standard for data exchange. More and more software
products and technologies are being built on top of it. Even the newest buzz
word in Internet programming- AJAX - is related to XML. The good news is that
.NET framework provides a very powerful API for manipulating XML, and you, as
a PowerBuilder developer, can leverage on that API through the .NET
interoperability f... (more)
XML is becoming the standard for data exchange. More and more software
products and technologies are being built on top of it. Even the newest buzz
word in Internet programming- AJAX - is related to XML. The good news is that
.NET framework provides a very powerful API for manipulating XML, and you, as
a PowerBuilder developer, can leverage on that API through the .NET
interoperability f... (more)
From the PowerBuilder forums I've discovered that quite a few people are
requesting a feature that allows them to write console applications with
PowerBuilder. PowerBuilder doesn't support this feature natively right now,
but we can already do it with PowerBuilder 9Swith the help of PBNI.
There are two reasons you can't create console applications with the
PowerBuilder IDE. One, PowerBui... (more)
Xue-song Wu, a staff software engineer in Sybase Asia Development Center, Singapore, team leader of PowerBuilder Virtual Machine and Compiler team.
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