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- Last updated 3 weeks ago
This is a compilation of tips you can and should follow to help you get answers to your questions in the Appeon Community QA forum, based on several years of my asking, following and answering posts. Not every tip listed here is applicable to every t...
Hello PB Guru's,
I am looking for guidance from PowerBuilder experts regarding a security vulnerability identified during a penetration test of our PowerBuilder-based application.
Application Background:
Our application is a PowerBuilder thick-c...
Upgrade to new release questions
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 day ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 day ago
Hi Guys,
We are current using powerbuilder 11.2 and may be slightly overdue for an upgrade.
I just have some question about the current PB release.
I assume the system can simply convert 11.2 code to new release?
Can I still store all my datawind...
Hello,
I need an xml file (PBDOM_Document) to contain this header ?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"? , without "standalone=...".
But when I use the function: SetXMLdeclaration("1.0", "ISO-8859-1", " ") as indicated in the documentation to av...
PB 2025 R2 6464 can I remove the .NET Framework 4.8?
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- Advice
- Last updated 4 days ago
- James Levin replied 1 day ago
Good afternoon,
I'm in the process of upgrading my PB application from PB 2025 3711 to PB 2025 R2 6464 for the .NET 10 support.
PB application setup: PB Solution Mode, Git source code, Running 64-bit with pbds, latest fixed web viewer x64-bit, and ...
Export to Excel12 in PB2025, file not created
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- John Fauss replied 4 days ago
After migrating my program to PB 2025 I was notified by a user that the Excel export (to XLSX) no longer worked. Export to Excel XLS still works. There are no errors. The program thinks it is creating a file, but nothing is there. I've looked at all ...
HTTPClient proxy behaviour: machine-wide WinHTTP proxy and service accounts
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- New
- How-to
- Last updated 5 days ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 5 days ago
Hi,
Were moving our PowerBuilder application from a third-party HTTP library to the native HTTPClient object. Our customers run the application on desktops and Remote Desktop servers. They also run it as unattended batch jobs under Windows service a...
PowerBuilder IDE closing after adding a workspace or target
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 days ago
Hello. We are trying to set up a new developer and the PowerBuilder IDE closes after we try to add a workspace or target. We have installed PowerBuilder 2022 R3 and the dev has an Appeon login and has been assigned a license and is logged in. He is c...
If I run my application in the IDE, either in the debugger or just from the "Run" menu option, it works fine. But if I copy the .EXE and the DLLs I _thought_ were necessary, then I get this error.
Line 43 is included in the screenshot below:...
We have an Powerbuilder 2022r3 3397 application when selecting large data to export in XLSX format it crashes.
Is there any know issues in this version?
printgetprinter function returns incorrect formatting.
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Rich Gibson replied 1 week ago
I am using the following code to switch printers programatically:
strl_chq_printer = printgetprinter()il_rc = RegistrySet ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\BCIChq","ChqPrinter",regstring!,strl_chq_printer)
strl_chq_print then contains an unformatted str...
Slow Performance on PB2025
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- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- David Peace -Consulting Partner Powersoft replied 1 week ago
Hello!
We've been experiencing issues since upgrading our code from PB2022R3 to PB2025 in solution format.
We've already been experiencing performance issues, especially with menu objects and opening the object tree.
This has worsened with the ver...
Numeric Value Rounding Up in DW
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- John Fauss replied 1 week ago
Good morning,
In one of my DataWindows, numeric values entered by the user are being rounded.
Example: If a user enters .1234567 and tabs off, the value changes to .12346.
Setup:
SQL Server column: numeric(10,7)DataWindow column definition:
colu...
How to get a table name list in the database painter
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Roland Smith replied 1 week ago
I want to make a full list of table names first, then manually narrow it down to a list just related to one specific table.
Hi Team,
Our security team has raised concerns regarding the security of our PowerBuilder-based application under the following two scenarios:
1) Authentication Bypass:A security vulnerability was identified in the PowerBuilder thick client that al...
True multi-threading support in PowerBuilder (beyond Shared Objects)
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Bruce Armstrong replied 1 week ago
Dear Appeon Team,
I would like to inquire about the future product roadmap regarding multi-threading capabilities in PowerBuilder.
Currently, multi-threading is handled via Shared Objects. However, these objects run in isolated contexts and cannot ...
10x PowerBuilder Development with AI — Thinking About Open-Sourcing It
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Bruce Armstrong replied 1 week ago
Hi everyone,
As some of you might remember, I'm still working with legacy PowerBuilder versions (PB9 and others).
Over the past few months, I've been working on personal projects using more modern technologies and experimenting a lot with AI-assist...
Programming with PowerBuilder can avoid the impact brought by AI
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Is it true?
Build Runtime Library on solutions...
- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Bruce Armstrong replied 1 week ago
In older versions of PB (e.g. 5, 7), when you right-clicked Build Runtime Library in the IDE, it could regenerate several libraries that it thought it needed to. This often caused us problems such as bad runtime function reference. To get around this...
DataWindow Performance Degradation in PB2022 R3 Compared to PB2017
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hi Appeon Support Team,
We would like to report a DataWindow performance issue observed after upgrading our application from PowerBuilder 2017 to PowerBuilder 2022 R3.
Environment:
Current Runtime: PowerBuilder 2022 R3 Runtime 22.2.0.3487
Pre...
PowerServer and #tempTables in SQL Server
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- Last updated 1 week ago
- Jeff Martin replied 1 week ago
Just a high level question, as I am finding different answers in the forum posts I've found. We have project with over 5,800 objects across 75 libraries:
DataWindows: ~3,500Windows: ~1,400Global functions: ~730User objects: ~200Structures: ~25Our sy...
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