PowerBuilder 11.

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Geared Up for Accelerated Development
John Strano Technology Evangelist

Capabilities and Features Since PowerBuilder 11.0

PowerBuilder 11.1
Incremental rebuild for .NET Targets

PowerBuilder 11.2
Certificate Store Support for Smart Client-published applications Usability and UI Enhancements Database Connectivity Enhancements Enabling the DEBUG Condition for ORCA and OrcaScript Application Pools for Web Forms in IIS7 Telerik RadControls Support EAServer Support for .NET-deployed PowerBuilder Clients AJAX Functionality for WebForm-Deployed Applications

PowerBuilder 11.5

PowerBuilder Videos

For more PowerBuilder 11.x detail

http://www.sybase.com/products/development/powerbuilder/videos http://www.sybase.com/products/development/powerbuilder/webcasts

PowerBuilder 11.5

PowerBuilder 11.5 Overview

Products Packaged with PowerBuilder 11.5!

Premiums Packaged with PowerBuilder 11.5!

PowerBuilder 11.5

Packaged with PowerBuilder 11.5!

PocketBuilder 2.5 PowerBuilder Application Server Plug-in 1.1 PowerBuilder Skills for Heterogeneous Environments Mobile JEE .NET Client/Server

PowerBuilder 11.5

PowerBuilder 11.5 Features

.NET Code Access Security

PowerBuilder 11.5

Brief Introduction of Code Access Security (CAS)

Code Access Security is for .NET applications at runtime Its complementary to Role-Based security
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302422.aspx

While Role-Based security answers the questions of "Who is the user and what can the user do?"

PowerBuilder 11.5

Brief Introduction of Code Access Security (CAS)

Code security answers the questions of:
Where is the code from? Who wrote the code? What can the code do?

CAS is a resource constraint model

PowerBuilder 11.5 supports CAS for:
Windows Form (and Smart Client) Web Form applications NVOs (as Web Services or as Assemblies)

PowerBuilder 11.5

Security in Windows FormDesign time

Security settings for code groups are designated in the project painters Four levels of trust
Full Trust (default) Local Intranet Trust
Can be customized

Internet Trust
Can be customized

Custom

PowerBuilder 11.5

Security in WebForm / Web Service

By default, WebForm and Web Services are deployed and running with Full trust level Can choose Custom level in project painter

A new configuration file web_customtrust.config is generated and referred in applications web.config Application will be running in custom trust level Security setting in web.config and web_customtrust.config will take effect in runtime

PowerBuilder 11.5

Security in WebForm / Web Service

WebForm security in project painter

WebForm deployed with custom trust

PowerBuilder 11.5

Strong Name Support for .NET Applications

You can ensure that a name is globally unique by signing an assembly with a Strong Name Strong Names attempt to guarantee authorship of code Strong Names satisfy the following requirements:
Strong Names guarantee name uniqueness by relying on unique key pairs Strong Names protect the version lineage of an assembly Strong Names provide a strong integrity check
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/wd40t7ad.aspx

PowerBuilder 11.5

Strong Name Support for .NET Applications

PowerBuilder 11.5 can generate Strong Named assemblies for all .NET applications

Can be put into GAC and shared by multiple Applications

Can protect the assembly from tampering NVOs as .NET Web Services and as .NET Assemblies can be called by partially trusted callers if theyre signed with Strong Name

Mark the assembly with AllowPartiallyTrustedCallerAttribute

Note: Select this property unless you trust the callers

PowerBuilder 11.5

Strong Name Support for .NET Applications

Sign an assembly as strong name assembly

PowerBuilder 11.5

PowerBuilder .NET Security Summary

CAS provides you more security control on system resources However, it makes the developers work and administrators work more complex, and may cause more problems for the end users when running the application if not adequately planned and managed Need to work with system administrator to get the systems security policy during development Need thorough testing with intended security policy Always grant the minimal, not the most, permissions enough for performing certain operation to reduce potential risks

PowerBuilder 11.5

More resources on .NET CAS

.NET Framework Developer's Guide: Code Access Security http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/930b76w0(VS.80).aspx How to Add a Trusted Publisher to a Client Computer for Click Once Applications http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms172241.aspx .NET Framework tool: Code Access Security Policy Tool (caspol.exe) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cb6t8dtz(VS.80).aspx Code Access Permissions from .NET Framework http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h846e9b3.aspx ASP.NET Code Access Security http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/87x8e4d1.aspx PowerBuilder 11.5

PNG Graphics Support

PowerBuilder 11.5

PNG Support
PowerBuilder 11.5 supports the Portable Networks Graphics (PNG) file format for images in
Menus Toolbars Treeview controls DataWindow objects

PNG images have an alpha channel for transparency Transparent portions of a PNG image display the background color gradient of the control to which they are assigned

PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance

PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance

The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) is a security standard Mandated by the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance
To meet the FDCC security requirements, PowerBuilder 11.5 can be installed only by a system administrator However

PowerBuilder Applications that you develop with PowerBuilder

are designed to be run in a standard user context without elevated system administration privileges

PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance
Most PowerBuilder files install by default to Program Files\Sybase subdirectories Write access to these subdirectories is restricted to administrative users FDCC requires all writable files must be copied or installed to directories where standard users have write access

PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance

Writable files that are shared by all users are installed in

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Sybase\PowerBuilder 11.5

These include The EASDemo databases All Code Examples directories and files All PowerBuilder Help files The Translation Toolkit directories and files

PowerBuilder 11.5

FDCC Compliance
User-specific writable files are installed in the default Program Files\Sybase subdirectories but:
Are copied to different locations the first time a user starts PowerBuilder There will be as many copies of these files as there are standard users who use PowerBuilder
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName subdirectory Local Settings\Application Data\Sybase\PowerBuilder 11.5 My Documents\Sybase\PowerBuilder 11.5\Tutorial
PowerBuilder 11.5

Files copied or written

PBxxx.INI files License files PowerBuilder Getting Started tutorial

Transaction Object Enhancement

PowerBuilder 11.5

Transaction Object Enhancement

PowerBuilder 11.5 adds two new events for the Transaction object DBError

SQLPreview

PowerBuilder 11.5

Transaction Object Enhancement

With Embedded SQL Whenever an error occurs in the Transaction object, the DBError event is called
The error code and error message are passed to the event

The SQLPreview event on the Transaction object is triggered before SQL statements are passed to the DBMS

PowerBuilder 11.5

Transaction Object Enhancement

DBError in concert with a DataStore or a DataWindow

DataWindow/DataStore DBError event is triggered before the DBError event of the Transaction object
To coordinate these two events

Two additional return values have been added for the DataWindow DBError event The meaning of the existing return values is expanded to indicate whether the Transaction Object's DBError event should be fired
PowerBuilder 11.5

Transaction Object Enhancement

contd

SQLPreview in concert with a DataStore or a DataWindow

If the return value of the DataWindow or DataStores SQLPreview event is 0:

Continue processing The Transaction object's SQLPreview event is triggered

PowerBuilder 11.5

Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets

PowerBuilder 11.5

Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets

PowerBuilder 11.5 .NET targets do not require you to have IIS installed on the development computer When you deploy directly to a remote computer

System information about the deployment computer, including its OS and IIS versions, is passed to PowerBuilder through the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) interface

PowerBuilder 11.5

Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets

If you deploy to an MSI setup file Run the setup file on a deployment computer PowerBuilder can use the Windows API to obtain information about the OS and IIS versions on that computer

PowerBuilder 11.5

Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets

When you attempt to deploy Web Target projects on Vista or Windows 2008 under a standard user account

PowerBuilder 11.5

Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets

The User Account Control (UAC) dialog box displays This dialog box allows you to elevate your privileges for the purpose of deployment

PowerBuilder 11.5

Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets

Deploying .NET targets to a remote Windows Vista or Windows 2008 computer might require changes to UAC Windows firewall Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) settings

PowerBuilder 11.5

Support for MS SQL Server 2008

PowerBuilder 11.5

SQL Server 2008 Driver: Transaction Object Syntax

New Database Connection Parameter Provider Use the SQLNCLI10 Provider value
Required to take advantage of new features Default Provider value is SQLNCLI Only supports SQL Server 2005 features

Example: SQLCA.DBParm = Provider='SQLNCLI10

PowerBuilder 11.5

SQL Server 2008 Driver

Mirroring Support New Data Types T-SQL Support

PowerBuilder 11.5

SQL Server 2008 Driver

New Data Types
TIME & DATETIME2 types Have 0-7 fractional seconds precision. PowerBuilder supports 0-6 fractional seconds precision. DATETIMEOFFSET Not supported in PowerBuilder 11.5 CLR Types HIERARCHYID SPATIAL DATA GEOGRAPHY & GEOMETRY UDT User defined CLR Types FILESTREAM NOT strictly a new data type but a new storage mechanism for Varbinary(max) data PowerBuilder 11.5

SQL Server 2008 Driver : T-SQL Support

Row Constructors
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES ('tom', 25, 5), ('jerry', 30, 6);

ESQL / DSQL

FORCESEEK Table Hint

Forces the query optimizer to use only an index seek ESQL / DSQL and DataWindow data source

MERGE Statement
Dynamic SQL only

GROUPING SETS
ESQL / DSQL and DataWindow data source

PowerBuilder 11.5

SQL Server 2008 Driver: Delayed for GA

The MS SQL Server 2008 release was delayed The GA version of our driver cannot be included in time for the PowerBuilder 11.5 GA

Resolution: We will release PowerBuilder 11.5 with the SQL Server 2008 RC driver and support its GA in an EBF

PowerBuilder 11.5

Support for Oracle 11g

PowerBuilder 11.5

Oracle 11g Support

Client Access through Proxy
New DBParm ConnectAs is used to set the End User

Session and Connection Pooling

New Pooling DBParm "CnnPool='Yes' is now "Pooling='Connection Pooling

Implicit Fetching ROWID with SELECT FOR UPDATE statements

ROWID no longer needs to be explicitly added in the select items

Client-side caching of SQL query result sets

PowerBuilder 11.5

Oracle 11g Support

OCI Driver Name

Diagnostic aid AppDriverName DPBARM parameter allows you to set your own client driver name

XML data type support

Oracle XMLType data type - introduced with Oracle 9i Supports returning single XMLType values from an Oracle cursor

PowerBuilder 11.5

.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

PowerBuilder 11.5

.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

PowerBuilder 11.5 will now Support method calls on PowerBuilder and .NET primitive types

Support method calls on PowerBuilder and .NET enumerated types

Support accessing static members of .NET classes with instance references

PowerBuilder 11.5

.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

Function calls on .NET primitive and enumerated types: Must be made inside a conditional compilation block for a .NET target.

PowerBuilder 11.5

.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

Function calls on .NET Primitive Types:
Functionality of the primitive types is now merged with the functionality of their corresponding PowerBuilder primitives

#if defined PBDOTNET then System.Int32 i1 long i2 i1.ToString() i2.ToString() #end if

PowerBuilder 11.5

.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

Function calls are also supported on .NET enumerated types that you import into a .NET target An enumerated type from an imported assembly:

namespace ns1.ns2; Public enum TimeOfDay { Morning = 0, AfterNoon = 1, Evening = 2 }

PowerBuilder 11.5

.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

e.g.: PowerBuilder allows you to call the ToString() method on the .NET TimeOfDay enumerated type after you reference it in your target: #if defined PBDOTNET then ns1.ns2.TimeOfDay daytime daytime = ns1.ns2.TimeOfDay.Morning! daytime.ToString() #end if

PowerBuilder 11.5

.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

PowerBuilder 11.5 lets you use instance references to access static members of .NET classes
string s #if defined PBDOTNET then //OLD WAY //s=System.Web.HttpContext.Current.ToString() //NEW WAY System.Web.HttpContext context context = System.Web.HttpContext s = context.Current.ToString() #end if PowerBuilder 11.5

DataWindow Enhancements
PowerBuilder 11.5

New DataWindow Features: Supported Targets/Platforms

Traditional Win32
Windows Forms Target
Smart Client-Published WinForm Applications

InfoMaker 11.5

PowerBuilder 11.5

Tooltips
Supported in all DataWindow presentation styles
Except RichText and OLE

New property tab New properties

Columns and all Control types All new properties are expression-enabled

PowerBuilder 11.5

Gradients/Translucency of Backgrounds
Supported in all DataWindow presentation styles
Except RichText and OLE

New property tab New properties

Bands Columns and all Control types All are expression-enabled (except for DWO scope/level)

PowerBuilder 11.5

Text Translucency
New Property on Font Properties tab
Columns Text Buttons Group Boxes Computed Columns

Expression-enabled

PowerBuilder 11.5

New DataWindow Object-Level Properties

Same as band/column/control background properties except
Not expression-enabled Transparency is not really transparent
Defaults to a white background

Extras
Images and Tiling

PowerBuilder 11.5

New Properties for Picture Control

transparentcolor
Designate a color in the image to be transparent

Transparency
Expression-enabled

PowerBuilder 11.5

New Column Edit Style - RichText

Supported in all DataWindow presentation styles
Except RichText and OLE

Comes with Floating Font Toolbar

Can be disabled Roll your own using new events, functions

PowerBuilder 11.5

New Column Edit Style - RichText

RichTextToolbarActivation
New DataWindow control property Enumerated

Enumerated values
RichTextToolbarActivationNever! RichTextToolbarActivationOnEdit! RichTextToolbarActivationAlways!

PowerBuilder 11.5

New Column Edit Style - RichText

New Events
RichTextCurrentStyleChanged pbm_dwnrichtextcurrentstlechanged (long row, DWObject dwo) RichText column has focus The current style of the selection or cursor position has changed RichTextLoseFocus pbm_dwnrichtextlosefocus (long row, DWObject dwo) RichText column loses focus
RichTextLimitError pbm_dwnrichtextlimiterror (long row, DWObject dwo, string text) RichText data exceeds column size The text argument is the plain text of the current column PowerBuilder 11.5

New Column Edit Style - RichText

New Functions for getting and setting text

Style (bold/underline/italic) Color Size Alignment Font

PowerBuilder 11.5

New DirectX Rendering for 3D Graph Styles

DirectX 9.0c (Direct3D) Prerequisite Depends on drivers supporting Direct3D
Graceful degradation to traditional rendering in case Direct3D is absent Support can be checked by running DXDIAG.exe from a command prompt

Installed by PowerBuilder 11.5 for the developer on first use Anti-aliasing should be disabled

PowerBuilder 11.5

New DirectX Rendering for 3D Graph Styles

New Functions
GetSeriesTransparency/SetSeriesTransparency GetDataTransparency/SetDataTransparency GetSeriesLabelling/SetSeriesLabelling GetDataLabelling/SetDataLabelling

PowerBuilder 11.5

SUMMARY: PowerBuilder 11.5

Delivers Core Functionality Enhancements
DataWindow Look and Feel Support for Newer DBMS versions .NET Interoperability Language Enhancements .NET Code Access Security IIS7 and Vista

PowerBuilder 11.5

Advanced PowerBuilder 11.5 Education

Moving to PowerBuilder 11.5 (DEV545)
PowerBuilder 11.1, 11.2 and 11.5 changes and enhancements .NET enhancements and target integration with EAServer 6.1 Configure CAS (Code Access Security) security zones for .NET targets Advanced Web Services in WinForm and WebForm applications

Fast Track to PowerBuilder Part II

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PowerBuilder 11.5

Q&A
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