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John Strano

Technology Evangelist

PowerBuilder 11.5Geared Up forAccelerated Development


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Dedicated to Marilyn

Marilyn Kotwal

*Colleague and Friend*

October 8, 1949 - January 21, 2008


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Capabilities and Features Since PowerBuilder 11.0

PowerBuilder 11.1 Incremental rebuild for .NET Targets

PowerBuilder 11.2

Certificate Store Support for Smart Client-published applications

Usability and UI Enhancements

Database Connectivity Enhancements

Enabling the DEBUG Condition for ORCA and OrcaScript

Application Pools for Web Forms in IIS7

Telerik RadControls Support EAServer Support for .NET-deployed PowerBuilder Clients

AJAX Functionality for WebForm-Deployed Applications


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PowerBuilder 11.5

PowerBuilder Videos

For more PowerBuilder 11.x detail

http://www.sybase.com/products/development/powerbuilder/videos

http://www.sybase.com/products/development/powerbuilder/webcasts


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PowerBuilder 11.5Overview


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Products Packaged with PowerBuilder 11.5!

Premiums Packaged with

PowerBuilder 11.5!


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Packaged with PowerBuilder 11.5!

PocketBuilder 2.5

PowerBuilder Application Server Plug-in 1.1

PowerBuilder Skil ls for Heterogeneous Environments

MobileJEE

.NET

Client/Server


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PowerBuilder 11.5 Features


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PowerBuilder 11.5

.NET

Code Access Security


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Brief Introduction of Code Access Security (CAS)

Code Access Security is for .NET applications at

runtime

Its complementary to Role-Based security

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302422.aspx

While Role-Based security answers the questions of"Who is the user and what can the user do?"


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Brief Introduction of Code Access Security (CAS)

Code security answers the questions of:

Where is the code from? Who wrote the code?

What can the code do?

CAS is a resource constraint model

PowerBuilder 11.5 supports CAS for: Windows Form (and Smart Client)

Web Form applications

NVOs (as Web Services or as Assemblies)


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Security in Windows FormDesign time

Security settings for code groups are designated in theproject painters

Four levels of trust Full Trust (default)

Local Intranet Trust

Can be customized Internet Trust

Can be customized

Custom


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Security in WebForm / Web Service

By default, WebForm and Web Services aredeployed and running with Full trust level

Can choose Custom level in project painter

A new configuration file web_customtrust.configis generated and referred in applications

web.configApplication will be running in custom trust level

Security setting in web.config and

web_customtrust.config will take effect in runtime


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Security in WebForm / Web Service

WebForm security in project painter

WebForm deployed with custom trust


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Strong Name Support for .NET Applications

You can ensure that a name is globally unique by

signing an assembly with a Strong Name

Strong Names attempt to guarantee authorship of code

Strong Names satisfy the following requirements: Strong Names guarantee name uniqueness by relying on

unique key pairs

Strong Names protect the version lineage of an assembly

Strong Names provide a strong integrity check http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wd40t7ad.aspx


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PowerBuilder 11.5

PowerBuilder 11.5 can generate Strong Named assemblies for all

.NET applications

Can be put into GAC and shared by multiple Applications

Can protect the assembly from tampering

NVOs as .NET Web Services and as .NET Assemblies can be calledby partially trusted callers if theyre signed with Strong Name

Mark the assembly withAllowPartiallyTrustedCallerAttribute

Note: Select this property unless you trust the callers



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Sign an assembly as strong name assembly



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PowerBuilder .NET Security Summary

CAS provides you more security control on systemresources

However, it makes the developers work and administratorswork more complex, and may cause more problems for theend users when running the application if not adequatelyplanned and managed

Need to work with system administrator to get the systemssecurity policy during development

Need thorough testing with intended security policy

Always grant the minimal, not the most, permissions enough

for performing certain operation to reduce potential risks


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More resources on .NET CAS

.NET Framework Developer's Guide: Code Access Security

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/930b76w0(VS.80).aspx

How to Add a Trusted Publisher to a Client Computer for Click OnceApplications

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172241.aspx

.NET Framework tool: Code Access Security Policy Tool (caspol.exe)http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cb6t8dtz(VS.80).aspx

Code Access Permissions from .NET Framework

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h846e9b3.aspx

ASP.NET Code Access Security

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/87x8e4d1.aspx


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PowerBuilder 11.5

PNG Graphics

Support


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PNG Support

PowerBuilder 11.5 supports the Portable NetworksGraphics (PNG) file format for images in

Menus Toolbars

Treeview controls

DataWindow objects

PNG images have an alpha channel for transparency

Transparent portions of a PNG image display thebackground color gradient of the control to which they areassigned


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PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC

Compliance


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FDCC Compliance

The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) is a

security standard

Mandated by the US Office of Management and Budget(OMB)


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PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance

To meet the FDCC security requirements, PowerBuilder11.5 can be installed only by a system administrator

However

PowerBuilderApplications that you develop with PowerBuilder

are designed to be run in a standard user context withoutelevated system administration privileges


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PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance

Most PowerBuilder files install by default to ProgramFiles\Sybase subdirectories

Write access to these subdirectories is restricted toadministrative users

FDCC requires all writable files must be copied orinstalled to directories where standard users have writeaccess


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PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance

Writable files that are shared by all users are installed in

C:\Documents and Settings\AllUsers\Documents\Sybase\PowerBuilder 11.5

These include

The EASDemo databases

All Code Examples directories and files

All PowerBuilder Help files

The Translation Toolkit directories and files


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PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance

User-specific writable files are installed in the defaultProgram Files\Sybase subdirectories but:

Are copied to different locations the first time a user startsPowerBuilder

There will be as many copies of these files as there arestandard users who use PowerBuilder

C:\Documents and Settings\UserNamesubdirectory

Files copied or written

Local Settings\Application

Data\Sybase\PowerBuilder 11.5

PBxxx.INI files

License filesMy Documents\Sybase\PowerBuilder11.5\Tutorial

PowerBuilder GettingStarted tutorial


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Transaction Object

Enhancement


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Transaction Object Enhancement

PowerBuilder 11.5 adds two new events for theTransaction object

DBError

SQLPreview


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With Embedded SQL

Whenever an error occurs in the Transaction object, theDBError event is called

The error code and error message are passed to the event

The SQLPreview event on the Transaction object istriggered before SQL statements are passed to the DBMS


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DBError in concert with a DataStore or a DataWindow

DataWindow/DataStore DBError event is triggeredbefore the DBError event of the Transaction object

To coordinate these two events

Two additional return values have been added forthe DataWindow DBError event

The meaning of the existing return values is

expanded to indicate whether the TransactionObject's DBError event should be fired


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SQLPreview in concert with a DataStore or aDataWindow

If the return value of the DataWindow or DataStoresSQLPreview event is 0:

Continue processing

The Transaction object's SQLPreview event istriggered


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Remote Deployment

of .NET Web Targets


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Remote Deployment of

.NET Web Targets

PowerBuilder 11.5 .NET targets do not require you tohave IIS installed on the development computer

When you deploy directly to a remote computer

System information about the deployment computer,including its OS and IIS versions, is passed to

PowerBuilder

through the Windows Management Instrumentation(WMI) interface


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.NET Web Targets

If you deploy to an MSI setup file

Run the setup file on a deployment computer

PowerBuilder can use the Windows API to obtain

information about the OS and IIS versions on that computer


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.NET Web Targets

When you attempt to deploy Web Target projects onVista or Windows 2008 under a standard user account


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.NET Web Targets

The User Account

Control (UAC) dialog boxdisplays

This dialog box allowsyou to elevate yourprivileges for the purposeof deployment

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.NET Web Targets

Deploying .NET targets to a remote Windows Vista orWindows 2008 computer might require changes to

UAC

Windows firewall

Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) settings


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Support for

MS SQL Server 2008

SQL S 2008 D i


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SQL Server 2008 Driver:

Transaction Object Syntax

New Database Connection Parameter Provider

Use the SQLNCLI10 Provider value

Required to take advantage of new features Default Provider value is SQLNCLI

Only supports SQL Server 2005 features

Example:

SQLCA.DBParm = Provider='SQLNCLI10


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PowerBuilder 11.5

SQL Server 2008 Driver

Mirroring Support

New Data Types

T-SQL Support


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SQL Server 2008 Driver

New Data Types

TIME & DATETIME2 types

Have 0-7 fractional seconds precision. PowerBuilder supports 0-6 fractional seconds precision.

DATETIMEOFFSET

Not supported in PowerBuilder 11.5

CLR Types HIERARCHYID

SPATIAL DATA GEOGRAPHY & GEOMETRY

UDT User defined CLR Types

FILESTREAM

NOT strictly a new data type but a new storage mechanism forVarbinary(max) data

SQL Server 2008 Driver :


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Row Constructors

INSERT INTO Employees VALUES ('tom', 25, 5), ('jerry', 30, 6);

ESQL / DSQL FORCESEEK Table Hint

Forces the query optimizer to use only an index seek

ESQL / DSQL and DataWindow data source

MERGE Statement

Dynamic SQL only

GROUPING SETS

ESQL / DSQL and DataWindow data source

SQL Server 2008 Driver :

T-SQL Support



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PowerBuilder 11.5

The MS SQL Server 2008 release was delayed

The GA version of our driver cannot be included in time forthe PowerBuilder 11.5 GA

Resolution: We will release PowerBuilder 11.5 with the SQL Server2008 RC driver and support its GA in an EBF


Delayed for GA


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PowerBuilder 11.5

Support for

Oracle 11g


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Oracle 11g Support

Client Access through Proxy

New DBParm ConnectAs is used to set the End User

Session and Connection Pooling New Pooling DBParm

"CnnPool='Yes' is now "Pooling='Connection Pooling

Implicit Fetching ROWID with SELECT FORUPDATE statements

ROWIDno longerneeds to be explicitly added in the selectitems

Client-side caching of SQL query result sets


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OCI Driver Name

Diagnostic aid AppDriverName DPBARM parameter allows you to set your

own client driver name

XML data type support

Oracle XMLType data type - introduced with Oracle 9i

Supports returning single XMLType values from an Oraclecursor

Oracle 11g Support


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.NET Interoperability

LanguageEnhancements


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Language Enhancements

Function calls on .NET primitive and enumerated types:

Must be made inside a conditional compilation blockfor a .NET target.



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Function calls on .NET Primitive Types:

Functionality of the primitive types is now merged with thefunctionality of their corresponding PowerBuilder primitives

#if defined PBDOTNET then

System.Int32 i1long i2

i1.ToString()

i2.ToString()

#end if



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Function calls are also supported on .NET enumerated

types that you import into a .NET target

An enumerated type from an imported assembly:

namespace ns1.ns2;

Public enum TimeOfDay{

Morning = 0,

AfterNoon = 1,

Evening = 2

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e.g.: PowerBuilder allows you to call the ToString()

method on the .NET TimeOfDay enumerated type afteryou reference it in your target:

#if defined PBDOTNET then

ns1.ns2.TimeOfDay daytime

daytime = ns1.ns2.TimeOfDay.Morning!

daytime.ToString()

#end if



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PowerBuilder 11.5 lets you use instance references to

access static members of .NET classesstring s#if defined PBDOTNET then

//OLD WAY

//s=System.Web.HttpContext.Current.ToString()

//NEW WAY

System.Web.HttpContext context

context = System.Web.HttpContexts = context.Current.ToString()

#end if


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PowerBuilder 11.5

DataWindow

Enhancements

New DataWindow Features:


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Supported Targets/Platforms

Traditional Win32

Windows Forms Target

Smart Client-Published WinForm Applications

InfoMaker 11.5

Tooltips


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Tooltips

Supported in all DataWindow presentation styles

Except RichText and OLE

New property tab New properties

Columns and all Control types

All new properties are expression-enabled

Gradients/Translucency of Backgrounds


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Gradients/Translucency of Backgrounds

Supported in all DataWindow presentation styles

Except RichText and OLE

New property tab New properties

Bands

Columns and all Control types

All are expression-enabled (except for DWO scope/level)

Text Translucency


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Text Translucency

New Property on Font Properties tab

Columns

Text

Buttons

Group Boxes

Computed Columns

Expression-enabled

New DataWindow

Obj t L l P ti


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Object-Level Properties

Same as band/column/control background propertiesexcept

Not expression-enabled

Transparency is not really transparent

Defaults to a white background

Extras Images and Tiling

New Properties for Picture Control


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New Properties for Picture Control

transparentcolor

Designate a color in the image to be transparent

Transparency

Expression-enabled


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New Column Edit Style - RichText


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RichTextToolbarActivation

New DataWindow control property Enumerated

Enumerated values

RichTextToolbarActivationNever!

RichTextToolbarActivationOnEdit!

RichTextToolbarActivationAlways!



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New Events

RichTextCurrentStyleChanged

pbm_dwnrichtextcurrentstlechanged (long row, DWObject dwo) RichText column has focus

The current style of the selection or cursor position has changed

RichTextLoseFocus pbm_dwnrichtextlosefocus (long row, DWObject dwo)

RichText column loses focus

RichTextLimitError

pbm_dwnrichtextlimiterror (long row, DWObject dwo, string text) RichText data exceeds column size

The text argument is the plain text of the current column



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New Functions for getting and setting text

Style (bold/underline/italic)

Color

SizeAlignment

Font

New DirectX Rendering

for 3D Graph Styles


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PowerBuilder 11.5

for 3D Graph Styles

DirectX 9.0c (Direct3D) Prerequisite

Depends on drivers supporting Direct3D Graceful degradation to traditional rendering in case Direct3D is

absent

Support can be checked by running DXDIAG.exe from a

command prompt

Installed by PowerBuilder 11.5 for the developer on first use

Anti-aliasing should be disabled

New DirectX Rendering

for 3D Graph Styles


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for 3D Graph Styles

New Functions

GetSeriesTransparency/SetSeriesTransparency

GetDataTransparency/SetDataTransparency

GetSeriesLabelling/SetSeriesLabelling

GetDataLabelling/SetDataLabelling

SUMMARY: PowerBuilder 11.5


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11.5

Delivers Core Functionality Enhancements

DataWindow Look and Feel

Support for Newer DBMS versions

.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

.NET Code Access Security

IIS7 and Vista

Advanced PowerBuilder 11.5 Education


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11.5

Moving to PowerBuilder 11.5 (DEV545) PowerBuilder 11.1, 11.2 and 11.5 changes

and enhancements

.NET enhancements and target integration with

EAServer 6.1

Configure CAS (Code Access Security) securityzones for .NET targets

Advanced Web Services in WinForm and WebForm

applications

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Q&AThank you.