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SAP PowerBuilder — programming language and IDE from SAP (formerly Sybase). Very popular in the early 90s before being eclipsed by Visual Studio and failing to provide an adequate solution for web applications. Outside of StackOverflow, the best resource for PowerBuilder help is the Appeon PowerBuilder Community. Also possibly of interest: The International Sybase User Group, PowerBuilder Journal

PowerBuilder — programming language and IDE from SAP (formerly Sybase and prior to that PowerSoft). Very popular in the early 90s before being eclipsed by Visual Studio and failing to provide an adequate solution for web applications.

As of July 2016, further development of PowerBuilder has been assumed by Appeon Corporation

Outside of Stack Overflow, the best resource for PowerBuilder help is the Appeon Community Forum.

Also possibly of interest:

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Significance of date 02/31/2157?

I work in a large scale IT support environment. Twice now we have seen an invalid date of 02/31/2157 being inserted in an Oracle DATE column. So far I have not been able to reproduce this problem, but it appears to be happening occasionally when a…
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How to get the value of a returned value from an async from an external function in PowerBuilder?

How to get the value of a returned value from an async from an external function in PowerBuilder? I made a simple example in VB2013 .NET 4.5 and compiled it as a DLL. And inside the DLL is an async method like so: test.DLL public async…
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Attach labels to items in TFS from the PowerBuilder IDE?

We do this using the Advanced button on the checkin dialog now (with Merant, nee PVCS) but the Advanced button is disabled when I set TFS as my SCC provider. Is there a switch we can flip on either side to enable this? Or do we need to write…
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Powerbuilder query

How I can search a .txt file in any directory(i.e. c:\,d:\ etc.) using file functions in PowerBuilder?
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Create WPF Browser (XBAP) Application in PowerBuilder 12?

Is it possible to create XBAP applications in Powerbuilder 12 ? I learned that powerbuilder 12 supports WPF but im not sure about WPF Browser (XBAP) Apps. Any help or link is appreciated. Thanks!
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How to combine "|" character in run () command in powerbuilder in order to read an txt file as metadata output of a file (pdf)?

Could you please tell me how to use "pdftk mypdf.pdf dump data | findstr NumberOfPages in powerbuilder run command and save this metadata in a file by using the following code like this: string ls_runinput, ls_outputfile ls_outputfile =…
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Invoking .Net COM assembly from Powerbuilder application (without registration)

We have a Powerbuilder 10 application that is using .Net COM assemblies. We are trying to embed the manifest in the PB application (to invoke COM assemblies without registration). The merged manifest file has added sections for dependecies on the…
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PowerBuilder Plug-in Architecture

PowerBuilder seems to have some support for plug-ins since version 10. However, I can't find any documentation nor tutorials about this. The only hints I can manage are by examining the COM objects inside the existing DLLs. It doesn't help much, but…
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How could I create a Gantt-like chart in a datawindow (Powerbuilder)

I want a rather simple (and cheap) solution, just for presentation purposes (and just to show the task duration bars - no connection lines between them). So, I am not interested in buying some advanced custom control like this for example. Have any…
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Is there a free diff tool for PowerBuilder?

I do know of a couple of PowerBuilder diff tools that are shareware. But are there any that are freeware or open source?
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Column names in dynamically generated datawindows

When I dynamically create a datastore using SyntaxFromSQL (in order to generate datastore source code, based on a SQL SELECT statement), with syntax like this string ERRORS, sql_syntax, dwsyntax_str, presentation_str dwsyntax_str =…
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How do I add 2 years to a date in powerbuilder and account for the leap year correctly?

How do I add 2 years to a date in powerbuilder and account for the leap year correctly? We have a medical license application where the user would like the date to go expire two years. Current license date is 7/10/2010 and expire date should be…
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Two questions about the itemchanged and itemerror events

Within PB6.5.1 and PB9.0： Question 1: In itemchanged event: return 1 In itemerror event: return 3 At runtime,the sequence of events fired is: itemchanged-->itemerror-->itemchanged-->itemerror Why is each event fired twice？ Question 2： …
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How *does* Powerbuilder POST work?

Unfortunately searching for 'Sybase Post' doesn't get me the answers I'm looking for. I want to know what the actual function is of POST As in .. procedure lala POST procedure1() procedure2() I'm guessing in the above code, procedure2 would be…
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How to import Excel file into DataWindow

I want to import the .xlsx file into PowerBuilder DataWindow, I know we can able to do it with CSV format, but the user wants to use the xlsx format, Please let me know if there are any options to import.
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