PowerBuilder .NET Guided Tour

PowerBuilder

A New PowerBuilder IDE for .NET Development

PowerBuilder

A New PowerBuilder IDE for WPF Development

Leveraging Visual Studio features Isolated Shell provides framework and features UI Editor WPF Designer Debugger

Plug-in existing PowerBuilder components Database Painter SQL Painter etc.

PowerBuilder

A New PowerBuilder IDE for WPF Development

Provides a familiar PowerBuilder experience Little or no re-training

Provides usability enhancements consistent with other major IDEs

Keeps PowerBuilder current with latest functionality

PowerBuilder

A New PowerBuilder IDE for WPF Development

PowerScript in the VS Core Editor WPF Painters

Incl. WPF DataWindow Painter Tabbed documents Auto-hide for tool panes 3rd Party Add-ins Import/Export IDE Settings

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A New PowerBuilder IDE for WPF Development…and more…

Benefits for…

WPF Application Targets

.NET Assembly Targets

.NET Web Service Targets

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Virtual PowerBuilder Libraries

PBLs are now folders

PowerBuilder classes/objects are now files

PBLs track files Adding a file to a PBL folder does not by itself add it to the

PBL

Simplification of source control

Saving with compilation errors now supported

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WPF Painters (Window, Visual UserObject)

WYSIWYG design surface for adding, moving, resizing, positioning of controls

XAML editor for optional advanced editing of layout, contents, and behavior

WYSIWYG Preview (WPF, vector-based)

Support for 3rd party controls

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Adding 3rd Party WPF Controls to the Toolbox

A dialog will be provided to select the 3rd party WPF control to import.

Controls may be added to the Toolbox of the … Window UO DataWindow

…painters

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New PowerScript Editor Features

Intellisense (including for the DataWindow) Syntax Highlighting Bookmarks Code Outlining (collapsing sections) Highlight of matching elements Incremental Search Line Numbering Go to definition Code Snippets Surround With Split Screen Editing Error Markers

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Other Painters

Database Painter

Query Painter

Structure Painter

…will essentially have the same UI as in PowerBuilder Classic

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Other Painters

…cont’d…

Menu Painter Similar to the PowerBuilder Classic IDE’s Menu Painter

Library Painter Will be consolidated with the System Tree A list tool window for “details”

SQL Dialog Will have the same UI as in DataWindow .NET 2.5…a modal

dialog

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Exercise One

Build a simple “Hello World” Application Create a Solution Create a Target Create a WPF Window Create an ODBC Connection to SQL Anywhere

Add code in Application Object to connect to Database Create a DataWindow Add DataWindow control to WPF Window

Assign DataWindow Object Code SetTransObject and Retrieve function calls

Build Application Run Application

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Exercise Two

Migrate an Existing Win32 Application to WPF Use Wizard to create solution and target Review Unsupported Features List Build Target Run Application What needs to be fixed?

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Exercise Three

Powerscript Language Enhancements

Array Enhancement

Jagged Array Enhancement

Return Array from Function or Event

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PowerBuilder “Classic” IDE

Current IDE remains intact for: Traditional Client/Server targets Winform/Webform targets EAServer/PASP components

Microsoft will not be investing in Winforms/Webforms Currently considering Win32 enhancements for a post

PowerBuilder 12.0 release (Windows 7 features support)

Sybase will continue to support current DBMS and operating system platforms with maintenance releases.

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Summary:PowerBuilder .NET

Build WPF applications with a familiar PowerBuilder experience

Provide your users with rich, progressive user interfaces

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Summary:The PowerBuilder WPF Workshop

No need to go to another tool for your .NET requirements

Extend your skills and your existing code to new incarnations of the .NET framework