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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
- Advice
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Manuel Rivera replied 3 months ago
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...
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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- How-to
- Last updated 4 years ago
- Olan Knight replied 4 years ago
Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4. :)
PowerBuilder support for .NET 10 assemblies
- Misc
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Torgeir Lund replied 1 week ago
We are using PowerBuilder 2022 R3 (MR 3397) with .NET assembly invocation for ActiveMQ communication.
Our current .NET components are built on .NET 8.0 and run successfully using pbdotnetinvoker.runtimeconfig.json.
We are now upgrading our Visual S...
Keyboard Shortcut to Comment/Uncomment
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- Misc
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
I have been using PowerBuilder for a couple of years now and think it is great! I have been playing around with the 2025 version, and the improvements are making life much easier. I especially love the ability to collapse code. Looking forward to the...
settransobject() not having affect ?
- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Richard Hartman replied 1 week ago
I have some code where setttransobject() does not seem to be having an effect.The original application was using Sybase, which we are porting to use MS SQL Server. This was working with the sybase version as far as I know.I got a suggestion to upda...
PowerBuilder 2025 R2 Beta – Git workspace connection issue
- How-to
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
We are trying to use PowerBuilder 2025 R2 Beta together with TFS / Azure DevOps Server.
We have a Git repository located at:https://tfs.vitec.se/tfs/Aloc2/Products/_git/PLP
Inside this repository, the PowerBuilder workspace file is located at the f...
How stable is PB2025 R2 Beta
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- Advice
- Last updated 1 week ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
Hi,
i'm considering to start testing PB2025 R2
So just a heads up form you guys about how stable it ?
And where i can find known issues and issue reports if any ?
Thanks :-)
//Steen
ps. I think the feature set of R2 is IMPRESSIVE and supe...
Export to Excel12 in PB2025, file not created
- Issue
- Last updated 5 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week 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 ...
PB migration | 32-bit to 64-bit | WinPB.dll no longer exists
- Advice
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 week ago
We have migrated the PowerBuilder application from 32-bit to 64-bit. Due to this, WinPB.dll is no longer compatible.
We need a 64-bit compatible DLL replacement for WinPB.dll. Kindly help with this requirement.
PowerBuilder 2022
A client is using a custom build tool written in PowerBuilder to build their application exe and pbd files.
The PBD generation is working fine. PBORCA_ExecutableCreate is returning -12 (Link Error) when 64bit is requested. A 32bit...
I recently got a new PC at work I can no longer run ProDiff. I've installed it numerous times with several versions of .Net but I can't find any way to make it work anymore. So, does anyone have a suggestion on another tool to use to compare PBLs and...
Access Source from PBD Files
- Advice
- Last updated 6 years ago
- David Peace.Consulting-Partner replied 1 week ago
Was messing with the Powerbuilder Complier and using the params that were provided when i do a build. We also use topWiz for source control, and when i ran the pbc170 with the parameters, i didn't realize topWiz would go and get latest of all of the...
Issue importing a .NET DLL using Appeon .NET DLL Importer (Appeon 2022 R3)
- Issue
- Last updated 1 week ago
- YuSeok Kim replied 1 week ago
Hi everyone,
Im currently migrating an application from a WinForm target type to a Classic target type. The WinForm project uses a few .NET DLLs.
Earlier, I reached out to this community for guidance on how to handle .NET DLL usage during this migr...
We are using PowerBuilder 2022 R3 and Creating the Application build. As part of security standards our application needs to be applied with signed signature. that mean application.exe and .pbd files should be signed one.
Currently our application f...
Hi,
We have migrated our code from PB2017 to PB2022. Now we need to update our GitHub repository with the migrated objects. Could someone please advise us on the easiest and comfortable way to update the repository with the PB2022 objects.
Thanks.
Printing in PowerServer is much slower and freezes apps vs PowerBuilder
- Issue
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 week ago
We are getting complaints that printing is much slower in the PowerServer environment versus PowerBuilder.
In addition, the app freezes while things are printing so the user cannot do other tasks until the print job is finished then they can operate...
SoapConnection in PB2019 R3 Rel 2803
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- Leilani Lacurom replied 1 week ago
Hello, we recently migrated from PB 2019 R2 Rel 2170 to PB 2019 R3 Rel 2803. I am working on with one application that calls the web service. I have added the pbwsclient.pbd in the library list and deleted the duplicate objects. It is working on my l...
When is the planned release date for PowerBuilder 2025 R2?
- How-to
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Torgeir Lund replied 2 weeks ago
Hi we are planning to upgrade from PB 2022 R3 to PB 2025. We now see that the Beta testing stops in March 2026. So we will test the Beta and hopefully we could upgrade late spring to PB 2025 R2.When are you planning to release PB 2025 R2?
Regards
T...
Upgrade from PowerBuilder 6.5 to PB2021 or later
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 3 weeks ago
- David Peace.Consulting-Partner replied 2 weeks ago
I have a legacy PowerBuilder application developed using 6.5 version and now need to upgrade to latest version, Can this upgrade be done in one step or do i need to first migrate from PowerBuilder 6.5 to PowerBuilder 10.0 then to latest version PB2...
Is there any training material of PB2025 available?
- Resolved
- Misc
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
Hello,
My customer want to learn the new feature of PB2025, is there any training material available?
Thanksregards
HQ Ma
Enhancement suggestions for PB IDE 2025
- Misc
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Julie Jiang @Appeon replied 2 weeks ago
Dear Appeon support
I've already sent you the most critical points that we noticed in PB 2025.There are also some less important suggestions regarding the IDE, I'd like to share with you.
Ctrl+Click instead of Rightclick-JumpIn other IDEs, you can ...
Accessing array inside array in JSON
- How-to
- Last updated 2 weeks ago
- René Ullrich replied 2 weeks ago
Hi,
How can I access values in an array that is inside an array with JSONParser, for example iban field? Example attached.
BNR,
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