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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...
Questions PowerBuilder 2025 R2
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi team,
I have two questions regarding PowerBuilder 2025 R2:
- Release Date: Is there an estimated release date for the next build? We are planning to transition to PB 2025 R2 soon.- PB Commenter (or alternative): Is PB Commenter (or a similar too...
Characters Not Respecting Syntax Colors in PowerBuilder 2025 R2 Editor
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 5 months ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,
I recently downloaded PowerBuilder 2025 R2 and was excited to try it out. Ive configured the script editor with a dark theme, but Ive run into an issue with how certain characters are displayed - specifically: '+, -, , , and =.
You can reproduc...
Error updating table with trigger that affects rows in other tables
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- Issue
- Last updated 2 months ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hi,
After migrating to 2025 R2, we have strange error in some datawindows when updating a field that triggers actions in the underlying update trigger. The trigger affects rows on other tables not included in datawindow's sql.
Database is SQL 202...
Can .NET application reuse a database connection string from a PowerServer application?
- Advice
- Last updated 1 month ago
- mike S replied 1 month ago
Hi,
We have an existing PowerServer (2025R2 Build 6430) application that already connects to the database. We are now developing a .NET API as part of the same solution and would like to avoid maintaining duplicate database connection settings.
Wha...
SQL Sort with computed field 'dec' very slow
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Michael Kaczmarczyk replied 1 month ago
HI,
a customer of us is complaining about performance issues after upgrading from an old version of our program ( PB2019R3 ) to the current version ( PB2022R2 ). We do data retrieval in our application and sort/filter on the clients side.
We coul...
PowerBuilder build takes over 5 hours
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
I updated PowerBuilder 2025 R2 to version 6464. However, when I open the solution, change it to 6464, and run the build, it takes an excessively long time. I started it at 6 PM, but the build still hadn't finished by past 11:40 PM. Previously, a full...
Buenos das,
Estoy necesitando acceder a una respuesta del objero httpClient, es un json y lo intento acceder mediante el objeto jsonpackage pero la app en android se cierra sin mostrar error alguno.
El codigo que utilizo es el siguiente:
string ...
PB 2025 R2 (6464): Deploy produces a working EXE but zero PBDs - "Failed to link, code = -5"
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- kitty he @Appeon replied 1 month ago
I upgraded from PB 2025 (Build 3726) to PB 2025 R2 (Build 6464) and can no longerproduce a deployable build. The IDE fails at the link step and generates no PBDs atall, and PBAutoBuild fails before it even loads the target.
This blocks us completely...
PB 2022 R3 build 3487
In our application, there are 10 Windows that can take anywhere from 4 - 8 seconds to open.
To improve performance, is it better to declare autoinstantiated nvo's as an instance on the window, or to declare them in the code th...
Are there any automated test tools still on the market that will work with PB 2022 and higher?
Our QA team has something for our C# web app but not for the PB desktop app.
Not able to generate api endpoints put and delete when generate net data store
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
hello,
Example:
query:
SELECT consultant_master.consultant_id, consultant_master.consultant_name, consultant_master.consultant_email, consultant_master.consultant_phone, consultant_master.manager_name, consultant_master....
PB IDE Closes while creating a new project
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Ken Guo @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hello,
I'm using PB 2025 R2 build 6430 runtime 6430.
Try to create a new project
The moment you click New menu... [ from File New or Right click (none) and select New) the IDE gets closed with no messages.
In my windows 10 machine this issue is...
"Row changed between retrieve and update" -- when upgrading PB
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 year ago
- Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Our old datawindow sources say "revision 7" and the new ones (powerbuilder 2021) say "revision 21".I found another posting for this issue here (https://community.appeon.com/qna/q-a/datawindow-update-show-row-changed-between-retrieve-and-update) w...
Deploy not doing anything?
- Resolved
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Richard Hartman replied 1 month ago
My other project shows pbd files being built, and the exe being created:
What might be going on here?
How to stop incremental build in PB 2025 R2 to run the app from IDE
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Peter Pang @Appeon replied 1 month ago
Hello,
Using PB 2025 R2 build 6430
Project is in Solution mode
More than one users are working on the same project.
Each users working on their objects (windows, datawindows, nvo's etc.)
When one user plans to run to check his development, the...
Oracle NTS with PowerServer
- How-to
- Last updated 2 months ago
- David Xiong @Appeon replied 1 month ago
We have incorporated Oracle NTS into our very large client-server powerbuilder application (works amazing). We would also like to be able to incorporate it into our PowerServer application. However, it appears the nuget oracle driver does not support...
PowerServer 2025 R2 – RibbonView Theme Not Applied After Deployment
- Issue
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Mark Lee @Appeon replied 1 month ago
I have migrated my PowerBuilder application to PowerBuilder/PowerServer 2025 R2 and enabled RibbonView with a custom UI theme.
The theme works correctly in the IDE, but after PowerServer deployment, the application runs with the default Ribbon and n...
Hello,
We are migrating a PowerBuilder application from PB2022 to PB2025 and we have found a difference in behavior when building in Solution mode.
We have a PBD that uses an associated PBR file to embed image resources. This works correctly in PB2...
Power Builder Upgrade | Dw2xls Library
- Advice
- Last updated 3 years ago
- Armeen Mazda @Appeon replied 1 month ago
We are currently in the process of enhancing our systems, and as part of this effort, we are looking to upgrade our PowerBuilder version from 2017 to PB 2022. In this transition, one critical consideration involves our internal reports that rely on t...
.Net 10 assembly call on client
- Resolved
- How-to
- Last updated 1 month ago
- Uwe Schwan replied 1 month ago
Hi Support Team. What is the best way to distribute the .net 10 x86 desktop runtime to our client installations. They need .net 10 to call a .net assembly. We only make a xcopy deployment to the clients. BR Uwe
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