Tomorrow, check out "Comment migrer vos Applications PowerBuilder" Jeudi 19 janvier à 11h00 EST (New York) / 17h00 CET (Paris). Don't understand French? On February 9th, PBTV has added an English version of the webinar "How to migrate your PowerBuilder Applications?" at 11am EST (New York) / 17h00 CET (Paris)

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At the end of February, Dave Fish will be presenting on PB's latest release: "PowerBuilder 12.5.1 - A Maintenance Release and a Whole Lot More!" Thursday February 23rd at 11am EST (New York) / 17h00 CET (Paris). In preparation, check out this PBDJ article by Frederich Koh.

Register here for the webinar

Date: Thursday February 23rd

PowerBuilder 12.5.1 will be released soon as a free download for anyone using PowerBuilder 12.5. While this is primarily a maintenance release it will include two new powerful features in the PowerBuilder .NET IDE. Join Dave Fish as he discusses and demonstrates the ability to dynamically load PowerBuilder assemblies into a WPF application at runtime as well as the ability to deploy 64-bit .NET applications.

Presenter: Dave Fish

Click here to watch the recorded webinar

This Yahoo forum post offers a number of different solutions to importing Excel files into Powerbuilder.

Check out the solutions here

Konstantin Goldobin has written an article on PBDJ concerning the use of Drop-down lists: "PowerBuilder helps implement data entry fields that are capable of clearly presenting irregular values to the user... it looks like we've overlooked one of the cases when use of a drop-down list can make data entry easier for the user."

Find out more here

"...here is the code to send sms through PB application .... but before you execute the code, make it sure that your GSM modem or Mobile set (which can be act as GSM modem) attached to the PC is working and installed properly...."

Check out other options for sending a SMS in French at Donf!

 Code: pb
integer li_FileNum
string mobileNumber
string Smsmessage
string comPort
string szEnd
string szCommand

mobilenumber = txtmobilenumber.text
Smsmessage = txtmessage.text
comPort = txtComPort.text
szEnd = char(26)

li_FileNum = FileOpen(comPort, TextMode!,Write!,LockWrite!,Append!)
if li_FileNum > 0 then 
  FileWriteEx(li_FileNum, "AT+CMGF=1")
  FileWriteEx(li_FileNum, "~n~r")
  szCommand = "AT+CMGS="
  szCommand += "~""+mobilenumber+"~""
  FileWriteEx(li_FileNum, szCommand)
  FileWriteEx(li_FileNum, "~r")
  FileWriteEx(li_FileNum, Smsmessage)
  FileWriteEx(li_FileNum, szEnd)
  FileClose(li_FileNum)
  MessageBox("Sms Application" , "Sms sent successfully....")
  txtmobilenumber.text = ""
  txtmessage.text = ""
else
  MessageBox("Sms Application" , "Unable to open comport....")
end if