PowerBuilder Editorial — New Releases

PBDJ Editorial — New Releases

Jan. 11, 2007 12:15 AM

DataWindow.NET 2.5 Beta Is Open
New features of this release include the DataWindow Designer Visual Studio Plug-in. This is a set of plug-ins for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. It enables users to design DataWindow objects directly in Visual Studio instead of in the standalone DataWindow Designer from the previous versions. The standalone DataWindow Designer will not be distributed with DataWindow.NET 2.5.

The following modules are available as plugins:

DataWindow Painter
Database Painter
Query Painter
DataWindow Project plug-in integrated with the Visual Studio Solution Explorer.

The DataWindow Properties view has been rewritten to fit the Visual Studio look and feel. Minor tweaks have been made in all these modules to fit into the Visual Studio method of working.

TreeView DataWindow for Web Forms
The TreeView DataWindow for Web Forms can display hierarchical data on the Web. It can freely expand or collapse information to show or hide details. This feature will benefit DataWindow.NET developers who want to show hierarchical data on the Web.

Web Service DataWindow
The Web Service DataWindow allows the DataWindow to use a Web service method for data retrieval. The Web Service method used for retrieval must return the data in one of the following forms:

A simple type
An array of simple types
A structure made up of simple types
An array of structures

DataWindow Development Environment Licensed with SySAM
The DataWindow Designer Plug-ins are compliant with the Sybase standard "SySAM" licensing tool. To register for the beta, go to www.sybase.com/dwnet25beta.

PowerBuilder 10.5.1 Is Finally Out
This release contains a number of new features. A couple I'm particular fond of are:

New properties for spell-checking support - the SelectedStartPos and SelectedTextLength properties allow you to use a supported ActiveX control to spell check text in PowerBuilder rich text controls. Supported spell-checking controls include VSSpell from ComponentOne and WSpell from Wintertree Software.
PowerBuilder 10.5.1 includes support for custom SOAP headers in .NET Web services. This support was introduced in PowerBuilder 10.5 EBF 5034.

I'm working on samples of doing both that I'll post on Sybase's CodeXchange site (https://login.sybase.com/login/userLogin.do?referer= https://powerbuilder.codexchange.sybase.com/servlets/ProjectHome) once they're available.

Update: The sample for using the custom security header option to call eBay is located at this URL:
http://login.sybase.com/login/userLogin.do?referer=
https://powerbuilder.codexchange.sybase.com/servlets/
ProjectDocumentDownload?documentID=2556.

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About Bruce Armstrong
Bruce Armstrong is a development lead with Integrated Data Services (www.get-integrated.com). A charter member of TeamSybase, he has been using PowerBuilder since version 1.0.B. He was a contributing author to SYS-CON's PowerBuilder 4.0 Secrets of the Masters and the editor of SAMs' PowerBuilder 9: Advanced Client/Server Development.

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