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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.

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Unable to connect to ftp server

I'm trying to connect to an ftp server through a powerbuilder application using windows api functions. I manage to connect to the ftp server through Internet Explorer (so I don't think it's a permission problem) but the application fails for some…
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How to get return codes from PGP Command Line code

I am using a McAfee E-Business Server v8.6 and I wanted to get the return codes from the encryption/decryption commands from the command line. I run the said codes from PowerBuilder. I wanted to get the return codes from the log file set in the…
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How PowerBuilder application act as host for another guest executable?

How i can run a 3rd party executable as child process in my PowerBuilder app? The only objective i want to achieve is that the 3rd party exe file open and close just like we open and close a Sheet in PowerBuilder. I dont want to give any other…
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Looking for a Regular Expression extension

I'm looking for a Regular Expression library I can use in our application, which is written in PowerBuilder (PB has some RegEx functionality, but it's too limited for my needs). Required characteristics are: interface: COM or exported functions…
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Powerbuilder - How to create Class Properties

How do I create/define properties for a powerbuilder class? I'm running PowerBuilder 9 and I've been using public variables like properties , but I want to know how to create/define PowerBuilder properties for a object. My guess is that in PB 9,…
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How do I connect to SQL Server 2016 in PowerBuilder Classic 12.5.2?

I am supporting a legacy application written in PB Classic that has a hardcoded connection string using SQL Server Native Client (SQLNCLI10). However, the Native Client is not supported beyond SQL Server 2012. It works in 2014, but it isn't…
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Window without border like Corel Draw start up from powerbuilder

Friends, many a times I saw Corel Draw start up window. It has no shape; that means it contain balloon shape and has no border. I also created start up image and I placed on one window. Now I want to transparent the areas which are outside my…
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Check if a file is open from another process

How do I check if a file is already used by another process from Powerscript ?
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Powerbuilder 12 cannot save as pdf datawindow

I am running windows 2003 server. I had no problems doing a dw_1.saveas for a pdf until about 2 weeks ago when the hosting company decided to do a software update on the server. Now when I do a save as the file size is 0 kb. Any ideas?
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Creating PDF file in PowerBuilder

I am new to PowerBuilder. I got an assignment to create a PDF file using PowerBuilder. How can I do that?
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PowerBuilder 12 vs Visual Studio - Designer support

I have control designed for VS2008 and VS2010. Will it work in Power Builder 12 designer as well? or Would I need to create any design.dll
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Add event to dynamically declared control

This is a PowerBuilder question. I'm using PowerBuilder 12 Classic. I have a window in which most of the controls are declared dynamically in code using OpenUserObject. When one of these controls is clicked, a panel should open in the container…
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PowerBuilder and Visual Studio files in same StarTeam project?

We have a system that is largely written in PowerBuilder 11.5 and we are using a single StarTeam project to hold the source code. Now we are wanting to add some related websites developed in ASP.NET with Visual Studio 2010 to source control as…
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How do I call win32 dll from powerbuilder11.5?

I wrote this code in c++: extern "C" __declspec(dllexport) int __stdcall sumx(int a, int b) { int result; result = a + b; return result; } I also tried: int __stdcall sumx(int a, int b) { int result; result = a + b; return…
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Powerbuilder : what does this computed field formatter mean

I have a computed field, whose format is specified as follows - #,##0.00;[RED](#,##0.00);# By format, I meant the format value that we can set from the property of the computed field(in the format tab). What does this format mean?
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