PowerBuilder Over Priced
SAP needs to get a reality check on their pricing for PowerBuilder. Recent news this week from Microsoft has indicated significant price cuts on Visual Studio 2015. For example: Visual Studio...
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Second Track of Pre-Conference Training Announced
John Strano to Conduct Second Track of Pre-Conference Training (May 4 & 5) at the Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference The North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group (NCPBUG) is pleased to announce the...
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What would you add to PowerBuilder Classic?
Lets start a discussion here on what the PB community would like to see added into PowerBuilder Classic! This PB version is still what 95%+ of us use for mission critical applications. Here are a...
View ArticleHow to Enable Appeon on Chrome Version 42
Appeon no longer works in Chrome (version 42) without changing the NPAPI setting to enable plug ins. To enable it: Enter: chrome://flags in the browser's address bar and hit enter. Search for the...
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Friends, Romans, Countrymen - Lend me your User Objects!
Hi Everyone; As the designer & builder of the Software Tool & Die "Integrated", "Web Service" frameworks - not to mention now EOL products like "EAServer", "PocketBuilder", "Webform"...
View ArticleFix for appeon bug - using modify to set useformat causes the editmask.mask...
The following code will reproduce this problem. Note that we are saying NO to useformat. That appears to be what is triggering the problem. Just setting the format and setting the editmask.mask is...
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Where are the Charlotte PB Conference attendees coming from?
2015 Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference
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Web Service Structure Generator
Check out the new Structure Generator for building a Web Service result set. The Structure Generator is a development productivity aid that automatically builds corresponding parent & child...
View ArticleSAP going forward with PowerBuilder in partnership with Appeon!
Announced by Dirk Boessmann at the Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference.
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Moving Forward with SAP PowerBuilder
Dirk Boessmann, Senior Vice President for Mobile Development of SAP, spoke at the North Carolina PowerBuilder User Group Meeting on May 8th, 2015 in a talk entitled "Moving Forward with SAP...
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PowerBuilder CodeExchange is back!
The collection of PowerBuilder utilities, samples, code snippets, etc. that were available on the old Sybase CodeExchange website have been moved. Many of the samples have been migrated to...
View ArticlePowerBuilder Education
Hi ThereFor a start off, I am perfectly aware that I am not the person who should be writing about PowerBuilder Education. There are at least a handful of folk I know who have been the mainstay of...
View ArticlePowerBuilder Mobile Update
Appeon Technology "Tech Tip"Creating HintText for User InputAppeon has updated the coming release of Appeon Mobile with a new feature called “HintText”. The HintText displays a value in the TextField...
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Progress information in a shared object.
I have known for a long time that you can register an nvo as a shared object and have it run in a separate thread, but never really never paid it much attention. In my mind a shared object was meant...
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2015 Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference Slides Available
Many of the session slide decks and related materials are now available on the NCPBUG.ORG website. Follow this link.
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PB Conference Impressions
This was the second year in a row that I attended the Charlotte, North Carolina user group's PowerBuilder Conference. A big "hats off" to Matt Balent and the NCPBUG Team for a job well done! As...
View ArticleUnable to connect to my Informix database in PowerBuilder 12.6
I installed a test version of PowerBuilder 12.6 Enterprise on my computer. I am unable to connect to my Informix 11.70 database from within PowerBuilder 12.6. I have Informix I-connect software -...
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Planning the next Charlotte PowerBuilder Conference
We are starting to think about the next conference (in 2016). What topics would you like to see for sessions/workshops?
View Article"My" SCN Content
At the NCPBUG conference this year, at the end of one of the sessions, I believe it was Bruce that talked about getting active in the PowerBuilder section of SCN. Prior to the event, I had visited...
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