As programming languages and applications architectures have come and gone, we are hard-pressed to find an environment as productive to develop in as PowerBuilder," wrote Al Hilwa, Program Director for Applications Development Software, IDC. "What's more, PowerBuilder has evolved aggressively as these shifts have taken place. In the case of PowerBuilder, Sybase's plan of record is to continue to ensure that developers are able to fully leverage both the Visual Studio IDE and the .NET runtime while retaining their invested skills and the power and productivity of PowerBuilder.
Sybase PowerBuilder White Paper

It's funny how user groups can get started and where they get started.
Sybase article, by John Strano

This white paper will present decision-frameworks for determining how much of your Powerbuilder application should be moved to the Internet, as well as present the tradeoffs between techniques to help decide which technique will prove most beneficial..
Sybase PowerBuilder White Paper

The annual Novalys Powerbuilder survey results are in. Thanks to the participation of the community of PB developers, we've got a look at the trends. Not only did we look at the current use of PowerBuilder but we also analyzed the impact of Java and .NET on PowerBuilder users. Java/JEE technology has been used widely for many years but Microsoft uses all its marketing power to impose its platform, rallying the Sybase capabilities to its cause

What are the most awaited developments of PB? What proportion of PB teams adopted .NET technology in 2010? Who's still using PB5? Who has moved to PB12? Where do you fit in?
Take the 2011 PowerBuilder survey and see the results from 2010!

In PowerBuilder 12, PowerScript is a fully CLS-compliant .NET language and comes with the ability to deploy fully managed code. The older PowerBuilder IDE continues to be made available for vanilla PowerBuilder development. PowerScript is used primarily for building business applications. PowerBuilder applications are used by many companies in the financial sector. It is also used by government agencies worldwide, telcos, manufacturing, and healthcare companies. PowerBuilder database is in use at thousands of organizations around the world.
EzineMark article, by Daniel Wills

Global Search across several applications and type of files

If you need to find a component or a business term in your PB code, you can easily run a search. But if those references are spread across different applications and types of files, (PB, UNIX script, DB code, XML files, .INI files ) this search quickly becomes complicated, and you'll need more than one tool to perform it.
Visual Expert can quickly analyze multiple file types and applications in a single, global search, to find all occurrences. It's like Google for your application code!

Read a step-by-step description on how to search your code with Visual Expert

About Visual Expert: Explore and review code, perform impact analysis, create documentation. Supports PowerBuilder, Oracle PL/SQL, Sybase ASE and SQL Server T-SQL.
www.visual-expert.com