The Hottest Thing Yet to Rock .Net!

Sybase PowerBuilder has always been the award winning tool of choice for Windows development teams who want results, not excuses. Now PowerBuilder 12 is starting a whole new revolution. It’s everything you love about PowerBuilder, but built for the future: more power and .NET all the way.

A simple wizard helps you migrate existing applications to .NET at a fraction of the time, cost and complication of re-writing. Overthrow the status quo and create the most updated, visually appealing business applications on the latest Windows platforms — on time and under budget.

PowerBuilder 12 and .Net

"PowerBuilder 12 is one of the most significant releases in the product’s history,” said David Tong, vice president of Engineering, Sybase. “We have recognized the need in the PowerBuilder community for a versatile and open .NET development tool and have responded with a solution that empowers developers to quickly and easily deliver .NET Framework-based applications without limitations via end-to-end managed code."

PowerBuilder 12 has two self-contained modules, one designed for Windows 32-based development and a new comprehensive module for developing Windows Presentation Foundation-based applications on top of the Microsoft Visual Studio shell.

"By leveraging the Visual Studio Shell, Sybase is providing its community of developers with even more flexibility in building and deploying data driven applications that target the Windows platform,” said Matt Carter, Group Product Manager, Visual Studio, Microsoft. “Microsoft is pleased to be working with Sybase to enable custom tools such as PowerBuilder."

PowerBuilder 12 works with the Visual Studio infrastructure to expand productivity for the .NET Framework, enhancing development of Windows Presentation Foundation applications. With the release of PowerBuilder 12, Sybase becomes the only vendor to allow customers to maximize their existing investment in code and skills with a solution that converts Win32® code to the .NET Framework seamlessly and removes the pain of expensive migration.

PowerBuilder 12 continues the tradition of simplifying application development by taking advantage of the features in the Visual Studio shell, and going to the next level by enhancing ease of use and adding new functionality not available in any other IDE for the .NET Framework. Sybase's patented DataWindow has been completely rewritten to natively support Windows Presentation Foundation and allow for deployment of fully managed code in .NET Framework-based applications.