Learning To Create a WCF Web Service using PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET Page 2 Back to Page 1 of the article Continuing through the PowerBuilder wizard for creating the WCF Service… finally we reach the confirmation window where we click finish and let PB get the WCF Service started. This is how your solution explorer will look after clicking the finish… Read more »
Learning To Create a WCF Web Service using PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET This is a completion of a prior article where I talked about my first experience using PB12.NET to create a WCF Web Service. The WCF Service accesses a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database and is used to provide data to a web application that I wrote in ASP.NET MVC3…. Read more »
Creating My First WCF Service using PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET I’ve finally taken the time to start digging into PowerBuilder 12.5.NET and this time I wasn’t going to stop until I had a working WCF Service created. Not only did I want a working WCF Service created entirely in PowerBuilder, but I wanted it to access a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database and… Read more »
The PowerBuilder Phenomenon – One Perspective Introduction This is a historical perspective of the application development platform and IDE named PowerBuilder by Sybase Corporation. The summary was written by Rich Bianco and is accurate to the best of his knowledge. This summary contains facts and opinions about the history of PowerBuilder, the opinions are Rich’s and do not reflect those… Read more »
WaveMaker™ delivers for the cloud like PowerBuilder did for client-server About WaveMaker Rapid Application Development for Business-Critical Web 2.0 Applications WaveMaker is an easy-to-use WYSIWYG development tool for the cloud platform. It has a visual drag-and-drop interface that makes Web 2.0 and cloud application development easy and fun, like what PowerBuilder did for client-server. If I had to describe WaveMaker in… Read more »
Do any development technologies stack up to PowerBuilder? The question was almost rhetorical… but look at what I’ve done here. Converting PowerBuilder to C Sharp .NET, WCF RIA Services and Silverlight 4 I know it is hard for some people to watch the big guys win all the time, but Microsoft has been up to some good things lately. I’ve used… Read more »
A Great Opportunity to get two latest versions of PowerBuilder for free. By joining the International Sybase User Group (either as a Gold or Green member) you are eligible to receive PB 11.5 for free, it is under a special license for developers only and you can’t deploy any production applications with it. You may also get PowerBuilder 12.Net for… Read more »
Using the WrapPanel of the Silverlight Toolkit The WrapPanel control doesn’t come standard in Visual Studio 2010, it has been removed and placed in the Silverlight Toolkit which can be downloaded from Codeplex Making a Windows Explorer “like” interface using the WrapPanel in Silverlight 4 The WrapPanel is a very useful control that allows you to place multiple controls within… Read more »
My Personal Initiative Utilize, Learn & Contribute to an Open Source, Microsoft .NET based Content Management System My justification for the project is primarily to learn, and at the same time investigate ways to use the CMS to better manage my expanding list of websites and content. I have used a lot of Open Source software and felt that it… Read more »
Using the SplitButton control in your Silverlight 4 Application What is the SplitButton? The SplitButton is a nice control that allows you to turn one button into many different click options. For example, you might have a Save button, with a split section that drops down with options to Save-As, Save a Copy, etc. SplitButton Examples … Read more »
How to Open Websites from Silverlight 4 and NOT use OOB Setting As with all workarounds, they aren’t perfect implementations, this one is a start. The Silverlight 4 Application – Web Browser Running non-OOB The specific things that facilitated this particular workaround are pretty simple. First we add an iframe to the test page that the Silverlight application is hosted… Read more »
PowerBuilder Predictions for 2011 – Dead, Alive, Comeback? No Login Necessary for Voting or Comments! Vote once per day to see results! Comments welcome and require no login! Pass it on… Short URL for Twitter: http://poll.fm/2ntjp Facebook URL: http://poll.fm/f/2ntjp update Feb-4, 2011: The DisplacedGuy – PowerBuilder Predictions Poll 2011 Some preliminary observations: PowerBuilder isn’t dead PowerBuilder outlook is optimistic… Read more »
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Having a hard time finding good sources of training and tutorials for learning PowerBuilder 12, 12.5 and PowerBuilder .NET? I did too so I decided to build the biggest list on the web and I am pretty sure I’ve done it. Next goal is 100 quality links to help people learn PowerBuilder 12, & 12.5 .NET. I add… Read more »
Wikipedia Plea, Jimmy Wales Plea for More Money in 2011 The decision is as easy as 1, 2, 3 Well, if you enjoyed my rant about Wikipedia’s Plea For Money last year, you are in for a real surprise this year! I’ll show you how great things went for Wikipedia last year while most normal businesses were suffering. Let’s start… Read more »
