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A recent post included some PowerScript code, and I thought I would pass along a tip for pasting code snippets that produces a slightly more readable result than simply pasting code into the website's text editor. The toolbar contains a button to as...
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :) ...
Hi PB team, I need some advice how to connect to a access db file or import a CSV file located on a SharePoint folder. How do I go about doing this in PB 2021? Is there a built-in driver that I can use or is there a driver I need to download ? Th...
I am having issues running a lightweight PB application called CRH that has been deployed to a remote Amazon AWS server.  The app was built with PB 2021 build 1288 and uses SQL Server for the database.  The deployment goes fine and I can download and...
We are upgrading from PB12.1 w SVN to PB 2021 with native SVN.  Our libraries all migrated just fine, now we're setting up a new repository.  The Add To Source control worked well, but we had trouble being able to lock objects.  Our userid/pw was not...
Hi,   I used the Migrator option in SnapDevelop to transalate powerbuilder code to c# but get heaps of errors in the c# code. e.g. 1. every class has base.create(), base.destroy() etc but DataStore does not contain a definition for 'create' or 'de...
At the moment I have had to change my COM wrapped C# code to return JSON strings in order to call it the new way in PowerBuilder 2019 R3. This works well, but extrating the results from the returned JSON is a pain. I feel like I heard someone say the...
recently our TFS 2012 want to migrate to MS devops 2019 to catch the latest DEVOPS trend, but seems only TFS 2013 explore and related scc plugin can support that,but when we installed,  there is error message*Phenomenon:each check-in would prompt a  ...
We have our custom font (ttf) that we want to use in PB application. We don't want to register it globally, the idea is to use it privately just for our application and no other application should see it in the list of available fonts.  In .Ne...
Hi All Having had some help from a few of you last week on storing rich text, I am now further along with my RichText requirement. I have managed to add the rich text to the database, I now want to print a listing  The database table essentially h...
Powerbuilder 2017 R3 Application Frequently crashing/Freezing in Windows 10 Computer.   Windows Event viewer shows the below error messages Faulting application name: whs.exe, version: 12.1.0.7, time stamp: 0x5b6318c2Faulting module name: OLEACC.d...
Hi, Hopefully someone can help.   I want to store notes - rich text notes in my database table - i am using sql anywhere 16 and pb2019 Basically I want to add some notes in a customer record - save them - retrieve them and edit again  What dataty...
Hello, My company is using Bitbucket for source control. This worked fine with PowerBuilder 2017 R2. Commits, pushes and pulls were all OK. In PB 2017 R3 and PB 2019 there are some problems when using Bitbucket (Git) as source control. When doing a...
Hi,    I am getting below error message while inserting record to the table.  I need an assistance urgently to resolve this.   Thanks, Falguni...
Hello Customer support: I have documented the question in the below attached document. The question is related to the Power Client properties access via code.  I  appreciated your help on this topic. Thank you. :-) If this option doesn't exist in ...
  The PowerServer solution name is invalid. Failed to publish the installable cloud app.   Please Help my about  this message   how to fix it  ...
Hi, We have inherited a legacy PowerBuilder application and in the system documentation, in a section entitled "Object Encapsulation", I have found the following when discussing object level functions and instance variables: "Private access right i...
Hi, I'm beeing writing a small WEB-API which has to process POSTed metadata and files as json-data and insert it into a SQL Server database. I know, the client could send the data and files together in one POST using the content-type form-data.  B...
Hi PB Experts Can anyone please confirm if Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 is compatible with Appeon's version of Powerbuilder 2019?  ...
We are currently on PB-2019 Build 2170. We are going to update to PB-2021. We currently use SNC for the primary connection to SQL Server with SQLNCLI11 for the Provider dbparm value. We also have code that makes secondary ODBC connections. They also...
Anyone else seen this?  Once I apply a theme to an application and then run it, my PB IDE and some applications now have 'black' menu dropdowns.  See examples: In the PB IDE In the 'themed' application Moving the cursor shows the menu choice...
Hi,Please your help to clarify this point about incremental builds/deployments with PowerClient (Maybe the same for PS 2021).For example, if I modify a window and deploy the change to the WebServer, I see that all the elements of the application are ...


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