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Have you ever seen a form that has its own microhelp that changes when a field gets focus? I'm sure you have. You might see a window and at the bottom of the window is a line that says, "OPTIONAL - Enter the employee birth date," when a field is entered. We are going to create a simple automated solution that will allow you to carry the microhelp along in the DataWindow.
PBDJ article, by Richard (Rik) Brooks


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.
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