"I believe in Business, having a Mobile Device & never building your own Corporate Apps is like having a Swiss Army Knife on a Survival trip and never using it" - Ian Thain

..."with nearly one in 10 Britons got one of these devices over the Holiday Period"

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Getting Down with .NET In-Depth Review of .NET Language Enhancements

Date: Thursay January 12th at 11am EST (New York) / 17h00 CET (Paris)

As a .NET language, PowerBuilder 12 supports the Microsoft Common Language Specification (CLS.) We'll review the CLS, learn how to utilize external .NET resources, how to create .NET Consumer Role compatible applications using the PowerBuilder 12 Classic IDE, and how to create .NET compatible extenders using the PowerBuilder .NET IDE.

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How to migrate your PowerBuilder Applications? - in French

Date: Thursday January 19th at 11am EST (New York) / 17h00 CET (Paris)

What are the advantages of migrating to PB 12.x Classic and PB 12.x .NET? What are the costs and difficulties related to migration? To learn step by step how to migrate your applications and in order to answer any question you may have, join us January 19, 2012 on PowerBuilderTV.

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PowerBuilderTV is back this New Year with all new webinars! On the website you can check out what's programmed so far for this month and register for the first webinar of 2012 - Don Clayton's 'In-Depth Review of .NET Language Enhancements' on January 12.

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"I'm working on a legacy PowerBuilder app, we have upgraded to PowerBuilder 12 but continue to use the "classic" IDE..I have started using expressions on the Protect and Background...The trouble is, for reasons that I am having a hard time pinning down, these expressions are sometimes causing the aforementioned row synchronization functionality to fail..."

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The International Data Corporation (IDC) just released an interesting White Paper looking at the past and the future of PowerBuilder and Sybase entitled "IDC White Paper: Sybase PowerBuilder: A Tradition of Productivity Evolved for Modern Developer Ecosystems". There are various points highlighted:

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" Sybase PowerBuilder provides the following benefits:

• A mature and highly functional application development environment that is currently in its sixteenth major release. Since its inception in 1991, PowerBuilder has aggressively evolved to meet customer demands for new architectures and technologies.
• A powerful, yet easy-to-use scripting language, which has been kept current to support modern language features and techniques that permit the construction of business logic tying the user interface to the enterprise data... "

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Take a full look at the PDF