For many PowerBuilder users who are using older versions of PowerBuilder with TFS and are wondering whether the latest PowerBuilder 2019 R2 would work with the latest Azure DevOps Server 2019, this article shows how you could achieve that.
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Applying a New UI Theme to Your Application
This tutorial is an update to the 2019 tutorial. If you have zero experience with the UI Theme feature, please first follow our Quick Start tutorial. If you are ready to gain a comprehensive understanding of this feature and dive deeper into UI Theme settings, then please proceed with this updated tutorial.
Starting from PowerBuilder 2019, Appeon added the UI theme feature to PowerBuilder so that developers can codelessly control how commonly-used controls and objects render during application runtime.
UI Theme Quick Start Tutorial
This quick start tutorial walks you through the 3 simple steps to apply the UI Theme to your PowerBuilder application. For more advanced techniques, such as how to define a customized theme and how to define theme settings for selected objects/controls, you may refer to the advanced tutorial: https://community.appeon.com/index.php/articles-blogs/tutorials-articles/2-powerbuilder/301-applying-a-new-ui-theme-to-your-application-2.
Como Instalar PowerBuilder 2019 R2
En este vídeo veremos los requisitos de hardware para instalar PowerBuilder 2019 R2, como se descarga la versión trial y como es el proceso de instalación.
RibbonBar Menu Generator
I've uploaded a small utility (PowerBuilder source code) to CodeXchange here that you can run on the menus in your applications and create RibbonBar XML based on them. It's intended to quick start your migration from existing menus to the RibbonBar I'm expecting that you're going to want to tweak the output somewhat after it's generated. however, it is a whole lot better from having to create them from scratch.
How to use HTTPClient or RESTClient to call an API with basic authentication
Background
Almost every API requires some sort of authentication. Basic authentication is the simplest way to handle authentication. Here we are going to do a simple example to show you how to use HTTPClient or RESTClient to call an API with basic authentication.
Access a simple API with basic authentication in IE
Let’s take a simple basic authentication API from the Internet as an example.
If we input https://jigsaw.w3.org/HTTP/Basic/ in IE and press Enter, then input Username: guest; Password: guest in the pop-up login window.
Call WCF Services Using HTTPClient or RESTClient Objects
Background
Prior to PowerBuilder 2017 R2, the SoapClient did not support calling WCF Services.
In PowerBuilder 2017 R2 and the latter versions, the HTTPClient object is available, through which you can call WCF Services.
In PowerBuilder 2019, the RESTClient object is strengthened, now you can also call the WCF Services.
How to use HTTPClient object to consume a WCF Service
a. To get the methods and parameters to consume the WCF Service.
Normally when you open a WCF Service website, you will get the following page:
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