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Elevate 2024 Review

Bruce Armstrong PowerBuilder

Intro With 2024, Elevate returns to its previous post-COVID form. A two-day free online event with a call for papers and multiple technical session tracks running concurrently on the second day. This year they ran the Chat Café as 4 separate Zoom ses...

PowerServer Security Measures

* Appeon * PowerServer

Installable cloud apps deployed from PowerServer adopt standard cloud-native architecture running on the .NET framework and adhere to industry best practices for security. All SQLs and DataWindows execute behind the firewall. Data is accessed through...

Codeless Enhancement of Your App’s UI & UX

* Appeon * PowerBuilder

With the upcoming release of PowerBuilder 2019, Appeon has added a new feature called “UI themes”, which enables you to control, through a style sheet, how the various visual objects and controls of PowerBuilder render. Of course, the style sheet co...

NEW ARTICLES

Free My GUI! - Multi-Threading in PowerBuilder

In this follow-up to the article titled “’Haunted Apps’ – How to Avoid Ghost (Unresponsive) Windows”, you’ll learn about the multi-threading capabilities available to PowerBuilder applications and how multi-thread...

How to create an application from object source code files using PowerBuild...

PowerBuilder can create an entire application from the object source files stored in a source code control system without relying on existing PBLs. This has been public knowledge for years, but since I cannot find the article...

Defining a PostgreSQL Database Profile in PB2019R3

PB2019R3PostgreSQL v12 database Summary: Ensure that the database properties are defined correctly for the PostgreSQL database in the DB Painter. If those properties are not defined correctly, the PB2019R3 IDE...

Create Multiple DSNs from a single PostgreSQL Driver

FYI - Summary: You can create multiple databases from a single PostgreSQL driver. Details:PowerBuilder R2019R3 PostgreSQL 12Windows 10 These instructions assume that at least one PostgreSQL driver has been successfull...

Generating a QR code using QRCoder

QRCoder is an open source .Net assembly for creating QR Codes. What we're going to do is wrap that with an assembly in SnapDevelop we can use from PowerBuilder. First thing we need to do is create a .Net standard Class...

Detecting a smart card insertion/removal from PowerBuilder

This is a follow up article to an earlier article I wrote called Communication with a smart card from PowerBuilder. In that article I showed how to interact with a smart card once it was inserted in the reader. In this...