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Q&A Forum Tip: Including Source Code in Your Question
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Tjafzfa Gsjsf replied 8 months ago
6 replies
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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...
John Fauss John Fauss
  1. PowerBuilder
Please Update Your Queries With The Solution
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  1. Last updated 3 years ago
  2.  Olan Knight replied 3 years ago
3 replies
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Saw this and thought it was perfect. Note the angry mob in the background on panel 4.   :)
Olan Knight Olan Knight
  1. PowerBuilder
Application cloud deployment
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  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Dear Experts, I like to get an expert advice on our application's cloud deployment. Our application is in PB 2017. (migrated from PB 9 to PB 2017 a year back). PFC: using same PFC libraries used in PB 9 DB Connectivity: using SQL Native Client 20...
  1.  Amazon AWS
  2.  Azure
  3.  Cloud
  4.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Ganesan Rajan Ganesan Rajan
  1. PowerBuilder
Get visible row , datawindow scroll
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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0 votes
HI All,   i am going to try my best to explain my problem.   I have a datawindow where multiple records are being retrieved. The design ( the heigth) of the datawindow is designed that only one row is visible, but there's a scrollbar to scroll in...
John Vanleeuwe John Vanleeuwe
  1. PowerBuilder
Creating a RESTful web service in Appeon PB?
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  SAP Business One Delhi replied 5 years ago
3 replies
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0 votes
Hi, Ive just started looking at web service creation in Appeon Powerbuilder and I can see how to create a SOAP webservice with the .Net Web Service target, but is it possible to create a RESTful webservice as well?  If not, is that one of the planned...
  1.  REST
Daryl Foster Daryl Foster
  1. PowerBuilder
Windows Function to Connect NAS Drive is not working
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  John Fauss replied 5 years ago
5 replies
1865 views
0 votes
Hi All,  We are using windows function WNetUseConnectionA and WNetCancelConnectionA in our power builder application to connect to a NAS drive which is not working and getting error message saying Mapping is failed due to multiple connections to the...
Balaji Pinjala Balaji Pinjala
  1. PowerBuilder
Modified dates of ALL PBDs were updated with pbc190 /i
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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Greetings, I'm doing test pbc190 and pb2019. In case of deploying in pb2019 by incremental, only updated pbl and pbd are updated. But in case of pbc190 by incremental, all pbls and pbds are updated. Is it bug of pbc190? I want to update only mod...
Sunhye Yoon Sunhye Yoon
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2019 can Save to SQL SERVER 2016 using IDE but not runtime?
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Karl Wooley replied 5 years ago
6 replies
2382 views
1 vote
We are currently trying out a trial version of PB 2019.  We are running against a SQL SERVER 2016 DB. Using the IDE we're able to connect, retrieve and update to the database.  When the .EXE is built we can only connect and retrieve from the DB.  No ...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
  2.  SQL Server
Karl Wooley Karl Wooley
  1. PowerBuilder
Subversion Questions - Powerbuilder 2017 R3
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  David Edison replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Our current version control system is antiquated and needs to be replaced.  I am giving subversion a try because I need to be able to have the capability to lock.  I followed the basic setup from Bruce's video and have the following questions/issues....
David Vasconcelos David Vasconcelos
  1. PowerBuilder
PB 2017 R3 IDE crashing
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  2. Issue
  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Devang Modi replied 5 years ago
5 replies
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0 votes
Greetings, I just recently upgraded PB to 2017 R3 from PB 2017. No issues noted in upgrade and full rebuild was done with no errors.  I am now seeing my IDE crash when I run my application. This happens when opening a window using 'OpenSheetWithPar...
Mark Smithwick Mark Smithwick
  1. PowerBuilder
COM lookup and strong named assemblies
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hello If several different strong named assembly releases are deployed into the GAC (e.g.  Sybase.powerbuilder.core      v4.0_17.0.0.0_12345897d75b      v4.0_19.0.0.0_65789084e76b ) or in our case OLF.Agtech.Shared  etc.. How can we specify a ...
yakov werde yakov werde
  1. PowerBuilder
Dynamic OLECUSTOMCONTROL ?
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Roland Smith replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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Hello fellow legacy modernization travelers Is it possible to do dynamic OleCustomControls ? When an ActiveX is placed on a visual container in the painter, the control is declared in the source code and the painter glues in some binary hidden stuf...
yakov werde yakov werde
  1. PowerBuilder
Themes are practically useless for an existing mature application...
  1. Resolved
  2. Advice
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Mark Jones replied 5 years ago
8 replies
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1 vote
Apologies to everyone but as a company that has been using Powerbuilder for more than 20 years and we were excited for the themes hence rant below: RANT BEGINWell, we have been disappointed by Powerbuilder again. We were excited to use themes to giv...
Mark Jones Mark Jones
  1. PowerBuilder
What are some web host that are suited to host a Powerbuilder application?
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  mike S replied 5 years ago
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What are some web host that are suited to host a Powerbuilder application? Our team is going from your standard Client/Server to deploying the cloud. Which web host will work out best for PB? Thank you
  1.  Deployment
  2.  PowerServer Web
Sabir Foux Sabir Foux
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Change default Directory for DataObjectFactory.LoadDataWindow
  1. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Logan Liu @Appeon replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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I have noticed that DataObjectFactory.LoadDataWindow uses the App Domain's Base directory to find the pbwconfig file.  This will not work for us since we may have different DataWindow versions with the same name.  We need a way to dynamically set the...
  1.  .NET Assembly
  2.  .NET DataStore
Bernie Rivera Bernie Rivera
  1. PowerBuilder
Appeon Enterprise Management does not list the SQL Anywhere 16 Native Driver under the "resources" section. We're unable to add a transaction object as a result.
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Sabir Foux replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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Hello, We recently installed SQL SA 16 and loaded our data onto this new version coming from SQL SA 9. We were going through the deployment wizard provided by the PowerServer ToolKit when we reached the part to add a transaction object. We could not...
  1.  AEM
  2.  PowerServer Web
  3.  SQL Anywhere
Sabir Foux Sabir Foux
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
Local .NET Assemblies from Classic App (update?)
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  1. Last updated 6 years ago
  2.  Miguel Leeuwe replied 5 years ago
7 replies
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Hello    Back in 2012 Bruce Armstrong created a PowerBuilder.TV How-To video titled “Using .NET Assemblies with PowerBuilder”   The manifest creation tool he uses, GenMan32,   https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/junfeng/2007/04/14/genman32-a-tool-to-g...
  1.  .NET Assembly
  2.  OLE
yakov werde yakov werde
  1. PowerBuilder
How to execute and Work with Data Pipeline
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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I am new how to use Data Pipeline. So far I know how to create them and execute them in the GUI of PB2019 and it transfer the data with no issues. Now I want to use the pipeline object and execute it via PB Script and here it is where I do not know...
  1.  PowerBuilder (Appeon)
Clarence Chamorro Clarence Chamorro
  1. PowerBuilder
How to open a internet browser on https site with POST method
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Jon Tzeng replied 5 years ago
2 replies
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I am trying to open a https site with POST method to include ID and password to access the https site and open the site on the default internet browser. The POST I tried to use HttpClient and sendRequest method. But I cannot make it works. The return...
Jon Tzeng Jon Tzeng
  1. PowerServer 2020 or older (Obsolete)
How to activate PB2019 license in offline
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Balasubramaniam N replied 5 years ago
5 replies
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Hi Team, I installed PowerBuilder2019 in my VDI machine, this machine has no internet access. When I tried to activate the license using "Activate offline license manually" option, it is showing the below message. Message: "You can only use an onli...
Balasubramaniam N Balasubramaniam N
  1. PowerBuilder
Runtime needed to run a Web Service
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  2. How-to
  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Chris Pollach @Appeon replied 5 years ago
1 reply
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0 votes
Hello: we have developed a Web Service using PB2017 Universal version. The .msi installer has been created and the Web Service has been deployed in the test server. However when trying to invoke the WebService, the following arises: Line 74:     ...
  1.  .NET Core Framework
  2.  Runtime Packager
Javier García Javier García
  1. PowerBuilder
Error creating an instance of a .net DataStore
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  1. Last updated 5 years ago
  2.  Mark Lee @Appeon replied 5 years ago
4 replies
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I am getting the following error when attempting create a .net datastore in a deployed environment: Could not load file or assembly 'System.ComponentModel.Annotations, Version=4.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its ...
  1.  .NET Assembly
  2.  .NET DataStore
Bernie Rivera Bernie Rivera
  1. PowerBuilder

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