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Do your applications include access control (user management, login window...)? If you also develop .NET and Java applications, you need another system to provide access control to these applications.
Visual Guard simplifies this process:
- A single system can secure all your applications
- Manage a single list of users, and give them access to all your applications
- You can even use Windows accounts to identify users, instead of the usual username/password accounts
Learn more about Visual Guard

Nowadays, every platform has an xUnit based open source unit testing tool. [...] When you need to refactor or build business logic in PB, think TDD. TDD is a powerful methodology with a proven track record for supporing developers in delivering quality code.

If you're looking for information on PowerBuilder, you've come to the right place! PowerBuilderTV is with you throughout the fall, bringing you webinars to enhance your PowerBuilder experience. From the latest PB release to the fastest web deployment tool, we've got information on it all.
See the full schedule, or catch up on past webinars.

Upcoming Webinars:

• Using PowerBuilder and Expression Blend Together - Tues. November 23rd at 12pm EST.
  WPF is all about creating a rich User Experience. Come see how Expression Blend, Microsoft's WPF design tool, helps you to build powerful and sophisticated PowerBuilder user interfaces.
  Presenter: John Strano
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• Combine PB, .NET and Java Access Control in a single tool - Thurs. December 2nd at 10am EST
  Companies rarely work with applications in a single technology. But securing each application with a different system means a lot of repetitive user administration. See how a single access control system can secure all your applications.
  Presenter: Christophe Dufourmantelle
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• Version control using PowerBuilder and Subversion - Tues. December 7th at 11am EST
  Presented in Spanish
  Presenter: Oscar Tobar
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There's a lot of "legacy" PowerBuilder code that you might want to access from .NET applications or perhaps PowerBuilder has some superior functionality that you would like to make use of in a .NET application. Think about how easy it would be to create a report in PowerBuilder with a DataWindow. Of course, PB can provide functionality through Web Services [...] but this has its limitations.

While there is literature describing how to use .NET controls in PB (see for example, past issues of this magazine), all are silent on how to set control properties at runtime and how to persist them. This article will address both issues.