Wednesday Morning Sessions at #PBTechWave

Started with Jim O'Neil's session on PowerBuilder in the Cloud. He started out with an explanation of what the cloud is and why you would want to use it. Demonstrated creating a database in the cloud and then moving data into it. Then he did a real simple demo of pulling data from the database using an HTTP call and then doing an importstring of the resulting XML data. He then demoed creating a .net web service in PowerBuilder and then deploying that to the cloud and calling it from PowerBuilder. One difficulty was getting the assembly to the cloud because PowerBuilder doesn't have the tooling to do it automatically. You have to create MSI files, upload them to the cloud, and then run them manually (not in silent mode).



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Next up was John Strano's 'Smart and Pretty' session, the session where he covered new 12.5 features, primarily:
WPF DataWindow Enhancements
Targets
WCF Services
Support for Custom Visual User Objects as .Net Assemblies
PowerBuilder.Net Assemblies
WPF target enhancements
REST Client
Batch Command Processing
Multithreading support


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Next session after that was also by John Strano, on using Custom Visual User Objects generated in PowerBuilder within the Visual Studio IDE.


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After that was Dave Fish's Tips and Tricks session for PowerBuilder.Net
Guided Tour of the PowerBuilder.Net IDE
Advanced Property Grid Features
Batch Build Command Options
Multi-threading Support
Debugger Enhancements
Deployment Enhancements


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