Features

The New Generation of PowerBuilder

Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5 is the second full-fledged .NET release of the market’s favorite application development tool, bringing true power and ease of use to .NET. In the box, you’ll find two Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that give you options. You can build and deploy applications in a traditional Client/Server architecture, deploy to WebForms, WindowForms, or Smart Client applications. Or, you can leverage the power of the new IDE, built on top of Visual Studio, to develop stellar Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. Or, you can use both. You can even migrate your Win32 applications to WPF, something that no other tool provides you. PowerBuilder supports Microsoft’s Common Language Specification (CLS) and its .NET features enable you to deploy NVOs and CVUOs as assemblies for your Visual Studio teammates. In short, PowerBuilder IS .NET, but it’s much, much more than just that.

So, what's new in PowerBuilder 12.5?

New WPF DataWindow Features:

AutoWidth Column for grid style DataWindow
Optimized SRD syntax
DataWindow Buffers in the Debugger
Tab Order and Enabled support
Child DataWindow control support
New Candlestick Graph DataWindow style
Global Functions list

New Win32 DataWindow Features:

AutoWidth Column for grid style DataWindow
New Properties for DataWindow controls
Transparent Property for Window Controls
Transparency property for all Standalone Controls
Sharing data sources with .NET
RTF and Images in the DataWindow
User-Drawn Controls in the DataWindow

New Target Types:

WCF Services
Support for Custom Visual User Objects (CVUO) as .NET Assemblies
PB .NET Assembly

REST Client support – PowerBuilder .NET targets can be clients that consume RESTful (Representational State Transfer) Web Services
.NET 4.0 Framework support:

Improved security for .NET applications
Improved exception handling for applications that leverage the .NET framework
Improved WPF 4.0 enhancements – so all the new functionality that Microsoft has put into the .NET Framework 4.0 for WPF will be leveraged in the targets listed above

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