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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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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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Sybase to Oracle - PowerBuilder Application Migration

We are planning to migrate Sybase to Oracle. The application is developed in PowerBuilder. Do we have any tool that finds the inline SQLs that are written in PowerBuilder Application? Also, please share some best practices that needs to be followed…
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Powerbuilder 10.5: upgrade or migrate away?

We've recently started to support a PowerBuilder 10.5 application and the question has come whether or not we should think about alternatives or keep the app running in PB 10.5. It is a classic PB app; an administrative software, build upon an…
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PowerBuilder 12: CopyRTF doesn't copy all text

Has anyone else experienced this issue? my shop is finally getting around to migrating code from PB8 to PB12.1. My issue is with the RTE control. This code snippet is located in an fw_save_rtf() event. if rte_1.modified and NOT…
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i am trying to access .ini file where stored the db information for powerbuilder

When I run this code I get default value as "sorry" instead of original value. Here is my code: sle_dbms.text = ProfileString( "C:\database.ini" , & "DBMS" , "DBMS" , "Sorry" ) sle_database.text = ProfileString(…
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What to look for in estimating a PowerBuilder Conversion Project?

I've been trying to do a spec for a PowerBuilder 9 to 11.5 migration of a relatively complex application. Granted PowerBuilder is not really my specialty I'm having issues trying to justify an estimate for this part of the project (and the…
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today() function returns date with time when project converted to .net

My application behaves differently when I work on Windows Server 2008 R2. When I converted my PowerScript to .net project, today() 's functions returns the value as date along with time (date+time) instead of only date. ldt_date = today() any…
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unreadable old storage data in SQL server using PB10.5

i have problem in storage Arabic data in SQL server database,data in database table shows the characters as strange symbols that has no meaning like ÓíÇÑÉ ÕÛíÑÉ but when i read this data using PB7 it seem good and readable ,when read it using PB10.5…
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Powerbuilder 2019 LDAP login

I have an application that needs an LDAP (Active Directory) login. In my previous project I have managed to create an application that has LDAP login. I created it using webservice but I am not quiet happy with its speed. Sometimes, it takes 1…
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Migrating a project to PowerBuilder 2021 - getting "mixing array and non-array in assignment statement" error

I have migrated a project from PowerBuilder version don't know to PowerBuilder version 2021. While regenerating one the windows in one of the libraries; I get an error that says: "Mixing array and non-array in assignment statement". Tracing this…
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Why Encode a string in Base64 (based on the Microsoft Crypto API) using PowerBuilder produce a result differ than Convert.ToBase64String() in .Net?

I have a text contains a hexadecimal bytes as follows: 01 1b 42 61 6b 68 73 68 5f 48 6f 73 70 69 74 61 6c 5f 41 6c 2d 53 68 61 72 61 66 69 61 02 0f 33 30 30 31 37 34 37 36 39 35 31 30 30 30 33 03 10 30 32 2f 30 31 2f 31 37 5f 30 35 3a 31 32 5f 50 04…
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How to declare and use out parameter in Powerbuilder with ASA database

I have a stored procedure named sp_getnextautono(as_sequenceid Char(20), as_sequenceno double output) In Powerbuilder I have scripted as follows: //Declaration Declare proc_autono Procedure for sp_setnextautono @as_sequenceid = :ls_input,…
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Connect to new object returns -3 in powerbuilder

I am working on project where i am connecting dot net dll in powerbuilder . In dll project at dot net i am referencing two more dlls . My project dll is made COM type and it has been registered successfully using regasm.exe "mydll.dll" in dot net…
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Appeon PowerBuilder2017 R2 Configuration

Every time I try to configure appeon PowerServer it keeps on saying "Failed to connect to PowerServer 'Local PowerServer'! Please verify that the settings are correct. Does anyone here know how to fix these errors? I have try searching it still no…
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