Power Builder is a program that combines and uses new technologies for application developments. The tools provided allow developers to create critical client-server, distributed, Web and Smart Clients applications for JEE, Win32, and .NET platforms. This rapid application development (RAD) software makes the construction of prototypes fast.
It has a native data-handling object (data window), which is used to create, edit, and display data. It gives the programmer tools for specifying and controlling user interface appearance and behavior, and also provides simplified access to database content.
PowerBuilder is used primarily for building business applications. There are also versions that can be used to build applications to run on mobile devices such as cell phone or PDA. This version of PowerBuilder has .NET interoperability enhancements, and data window innovations and many new capabilities.
Additionally it offers native interfaces to all major databases like ODBC and OLE-DB, in the Enterprise version. PowerBuilder applications tend to support multiple databases with relative ease.
v12.0 [Jul 6, 2010]
New in PowerBuilder 12:
- A newly rewritten DataWindow that natively supports Windows Presentation Foundation as well as many new presentation styles for an enhanced user experience
- Fully managed code at runtime
- WPF Application target type (.NET IDE)
- WPF Window and WCF Client Proxy project types (.NET IDE)
-NET Assembly target type (Both Classic and .NET IDEs)
* Compliance with .NET Common Language Specification (CLS) for comprehensive .NET language support and interoperability
-Runtime packager enhancements to support generation of Microsoft Merge (MSM file)
-Intellisense™ autoscripting support for PowerBuilder objects, .NET classes and DataWindow object columns and controls
* Support for Tracepoints in debugging, running specified functions on the call stack, popup windows to enable easy display of variables and property values of PowerBuilder and .NET objects
-WPF Visual Inheritance – Found only in PowerBuilder!
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