Appeon announced the availability of the PowerBuilder 2019 R3 Beta

PB 2019 R3 mainly focuses on improving the productivity of PowerScript and C# development.

This beta program is open to all PB customers.
You can send your comments until October 15 to allow Appeon to review them and possibly integrate them into the official release.

Here is an overview of the main new features of this release : 

PowerScript Development

• PowerClient Deployment – Automation of App Installation and Update process.
• Decoupling PowerBuilder IDE & Runtime .
• Git Enhancement

Learn More about New PowerScript Features

.C# Development

• Asynchronous Programming – provides asynchronous methods, debugging, and unit testing to simplify asynchronous C# programming for the .NET DataStore.
• Enhanced Debugging 
• Docker Deployment –  complete the whole docker deployment without leaving the IDE

Learn More about New C# Features  

Database Compatibility

• New MS SQL Server Driver – support of the new OLE DB Driver for SQL Server for PowerScript projects (replacing the native deprecated client)
• More Database Compatibility – support of new database types for C# projects (Amazon RDS databases, Azure SQL, Azure SQL Managed Instance, ASE, etc.)

Learn More about  New Database Features

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The new code inspection features announced by the Visual Expert Team are available in Beta.

Thanks to hundreds of predefined rules you will be able to detect automatically the following issues for PowerBuilder, Oracle, and SQL Server code:

• Security vulnerabilities
• Maintainability issues
• Bugs
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One of the main controls used while modernizing a UI is a Ribbon Menu.

Problem: this Ribbon will replace the existing PB menu, which usually comes with tons of critical business and security logic. 

PowerBuilderTV announced a new series of webcasts.

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• Build Modern Dashboard in PowerBuilder Apps - Part 1
• Build Modern Dashboard in PowerBuilder Apps - Part 2
• A common approach and automated testing solution for PowerBuilder and dotNet Applications
• Scan PB Code for Security Vulnerabilities

More webcasts will be announced soon, so stay tuned.

Visual Expert (VE) 2020 has released a new feature - Object Dependency Matrix to check cross-references for PowerBuilder, Oracle & SQL Server code.

The agenda is to widen the concept of “Impact Analysis” through visualizing multiple objects for PB, PL/SQL, or T-SQL code in a two-dimension matrix. 

Ultimate Suite 2020 includes new UI controls that can be combined to create modern Application Dashboards.