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OSUG - May 2, 2006 (Meeting Notes)

« H E Chris Pollach :: email
posted 2006.05.05 Friday

Dear Sybase User;

    For those who attended this event it was one you will definitely remember! Mr Joe Burger from the International Sybase User Group joined us from his home town of Columbus Ohio to present an overview of the ISUG organization, its goals, services, direction, web site, etc. Joe also backed up his presentation with a special offer to join ISUG for all the attendees. This was really appeciated by all and will allow them to receive about $8,000 of free Sybase software too. A special thanks to ISUG who provided the door prizes as well ...

Congratulations to our Door Prize Winners!

  • Nancy MacDonald - XWave - ISUG Cap
  • Sean Casey - Archimedes Systems Consulting - SQL Anywhere
  • Richard Hamilton - Service Canada - PowerDesigner
  • Dave Storey - Ocean Pearl Consulting - Sybase IQ

 

   The next presenter was Mr. David Fish - Senior Product Evangelist for Sybase tools. Dave covered PocketBuilder 2.0.4, PowerBuilder 10.5 (now released into production since March), PowerBuilder 11 (Sybase's .Net release) and the DataWindow.Net product (both in PB 11 and as a plug-in to VisualStudio2005). The main product highlights of the presentation were:

PocketBuilder

  • DataWindows everywhere
  • ASA RDBMS included
  • Native device support (cameras, GPS, RFID, etc).
  • What is coming in release 3.0.

PowerBuilder 10.5

  • New GUI Interface (all icons revised)
  • New Controls (calendar, date picker)
  • Application XP look & Feel (New Menu painter options)
  • New Database drivers (ie: ASE 15, Oracle 10g, etc)
  • MS.Net based web services (AXIS still supported - aka: EasySoap)
  • TreeView DataWindow (Cool)!
  • AutoSize height on all DW Bands.
  • Better PrintPreview control
  • New RichText control.
  • Decimal data type 28 digit support.
  • and much more!

PowerBuilder 11

  • PB to C# cross compiler
  • Support for .Net WebForm, WinForm and Smart Client application construction.
  • Support for WebForm "Classic" and new "Web Style".
  • New "NameSpace" support for variables.
  • DataWindow's now handle Blob's natively
  • ADO.Net support for Oracle
  • Database tracing enhancements
  • .Net remote debugger
  • and much more!

  Dave was able to demontrate many of the features listed above and was well questioned later in the Q&A session. Dave also invited Chris Pollach to demonstrate the DataWindow.Net running inside PB components deployed to EAServer. Chris demonstrated his port of the STD FrameWork originally developed for PocketBuilder - now running DW.Net web applications called from ASP and ASP.Net through IIs. Back on the demonstration theme, Dave was then back to show the crowd complete .Net WinForm and WebForm applications built completely from inside of PB 11. To top off the presentation to the over the 40 users attending, he demonstrated the new DataWindow.Net 2.0 painter running inside of the VisualStudio2005 IDE and then live within a VS deployed application.

  At the end of the Q&A session Dave and Chris performed demonstrations of the new WebForm "Classic" vs "New Web" styles and invited the audience to comment on their usefullness. Dave was taking these comments back to the engineering group for consideration as PB 11 is now closely approaching its "public" beta status later this month! 

                                        
Sincerely, Chris Pollach (cpollach@travel-net.com)
OSUG CoOrdinator (552-2757) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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