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PowerBuilder 11.5

Stop wasting your time and energy! PowerBuilder is Core Developement Technology, Geared up.

PowerBuilder 11.5 is the proven technology that delivers the ability to rapidly create Smart Clients as well as two-tier, distributed, and Web applications for a variety of platforms, including JEE, Win32, and .NET. For over 17 years, organizations and developers keep choosing PowerBuilder to develop more secure, manageable, and reliable business applications that offer the high quality, rich and modern user experiences. Whether creating modern business applications or migrating existing applications, PowerBuilder provides a wide range of development, deployment, and support options that enable developers to build mission critical applications exactly suited for business needs.

In this new release, PowerBuilder 11.5, brings .NET interoperability enhancements, DataWindow innovations, and a slew of other new capabilities to make your job even easier, your applications even more robust, and your development even faster. And as always, PowerBuilder continues to make clear business and IT sense though leveraging existing code, technology investments, and expertise, all the while incorporating the latest development paradigms.

PowerBuilder offers you:

Enhanced .NET Support

  • Strong-named assemblies
  • Function calls on primitive and enumerate types
  • Static member access

Native Database Support

  • Oracle 11g
  • MS SQL Server 2008

DataWindow and UI Enhancements

  • PNG support
  • Menus, toolbars, treeviews, DataWindows, picture, picture button
  • Transparency
  • Backgrounds with gradients and pictures
  • Controls with gradients, transparency (as a percentage), tooltips
  • Columns: Rich text edit style
  • Graphs: 3D graph styles (also in stand-alone graph control)

Simplified Security

  • Code Access Security
  • Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) compliance

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