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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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Is there a viable SCC integration for Subversion?

What recommendations do you have for a Subversion client that supports Microsofts standard SCC API? So far, I've found two possibilities: TortoiseSVN SCC. Seems neither mature, active nor supported (no release since Jan 2005) SVN Plugin from…
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Is contributing internal tools to open source worth the effort?

I know this is a general question, but I'd like to hear other people's opinion about our case: I work in a small company. Our main development tool is PowerBuilder, which is a very limited IDE with a shrinking community. We've created some tools,…
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Porting a PowerBuilder Application to .NET

Does anyone have any advice for migrating a PowerBuilder 10 business application to .NET? My company is considering migrating a legacy PB application to .NET (C#) and I am just wondering if anyone has any experience - good or bad - that you would…
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Large Scale Legacy Powerbuilder with GIT or?

I am evaluating various version/source control options for our legacy Powerbuilder application (in PB11 now, will be migrating to legacy 12 soon). To this point, all the version control with very limited source control has been done in-house…
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An alternative IDE for Sybase Powerbuilder

Does anyone know of an alternative IDE for Sybase Powerbuilder? It feels pretty clunky, after working with VS2008 and Eclipse. If not, has anyone successfully worked with this language outside the IDE? I'm not against using a simple text editor,…
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PowerBuilder 11.5 & Version Control

What is the best version control system to implement with PowerBuilder 11.5? If you have examples of how you have did branching/trunk/tags that would be awesome. We have tried to wrap our heads around it a few times and always run into problems…
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Powerbuilder WebCam

I am using EZTWAIN from a powerbuilder application to acquire images from an HP scanner. Recently I tried a Kodak model (i1120) and it seems that it is not supported. Specifically the application freezes during the scanning process (perhaps the…
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Is there a way to handle the dynamic change of a dropdown for a single row in a grid-based datawindow?

Is there a way to handle the dynamic change of a dropdown for a single row in a grid-based datawindow? Example: NAME LIKABILITY PURCHASED IN COLOUR (Text) (DropDown*) (Text) (Text) Bananas [Good] Hands …
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Powerbuilder Dynamic Array Manipulation

string array[] long lBound, uBound lBound = LowerBound(array[]) // = 1, empty array value uBound = UpperBound(array[]) // = 0, empty array value array[1] = 'Item 1' array[2] = 'Item 2' array[3] = 'Item 3' lBound = LowerBound(array[]) // =…
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Powerbuilder Datawindow Error

Help, our team upgraded/changed our Laptops from Windows XP to Windows 7 64 Bit, that came with the laptop itself. its therefore licensed and cannot be downgraded. When using a datawindow and adding the second argument I am getting Column 2 has an…
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Saving a datawindow as PDF in PB 10.5

I have a grid datawindow with a picture in it's background (with dimensions of an A4 page) and I would like to export both data and the picture as a (single page) PDF file. I used several combinations of the following commands but at most I got a…
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Spy++ for PowerBuilder applications

I'm trying to write a tool which lets me inspect the state of a PowerBuilder-based application. What I'm thinking of is something like Spy++ (or, even nicer, 'Snoop' as it exists for .NET applications) which lets me inspect the object tree (and…
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DataWindow Error: Row changed between retrieve and update

I am getting an error when updating a DataWindow which says "Row changed between retrieve and update". What is the solution?
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Powerbuilder resources

I'm recently working in a company where we use PowerBuilder extensively. The only documentation or resources we have access to is some basic course saying things like "Do A, then B and you'll get C". I was wondering if there is some better crash…
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How to make PowerBuilder UI testing application?

I'm not familiar with PowerBuilder but I have a task to create Automatic UI Test Application for PB. We've decided to do it in Python with pywinauto and iaccesible libraries. The problem is that some UI elements like newly added lists record can not…
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