SAP Database & Technology Academy - How to use Non-Visual .NET Assemblies in PowerBuilder Classic Win32 apps

One of my videos for the SAP Database and Technology Academy.  Other PowerBuilder related videos can be found there as well at http://www.youtube.com/user/saptechnology/videos?query=PowerBuilder.

SAP Database & Technology Academy - How to use visual .NET Assemblies in PowerBuilder Classic Win32 apps

One of my videos for the SAP Database and Technology Academy.  Other PowerBuilder related videos can be found there as well at http://www.youtube.com/user/saptechnology/videos?query=PowerBuilder.

SAP Database & Technology Academy - How to Create a WCF Web Service in PowerBuilder

One of my videos for the SAP Database and Technology Academy.  Other PowerBuilder related videos can be found there as well at http://www.youtube.com/user/saptechnology/videos?query=PowerBuilder.

RIP Silverlight, we hardly knew you...

Apparently the Silverlight.net site has been taken down and replaced with a redirect to a page on MSDN.  Just one more sign of the slow demise of the product.  So sad.  They could have at least waited until HTML5 was ready to replace it...

Using Code Snippets in PowerBuilder.Net

If you are a big fan of the clip window in Classic PowerBuilder, you may have wondered what happened to it in PowerBuilder.Net.  You might have even been told that code snippets replaced it, but have no idea how to use them.  This article will hopefully address that issue.   We're going to walk through creating a code snippet, adding it to the PowerBuilder.Net IDE, and then using it in a scripting window.

Code Snippets actually have a lot more capabilities than the Clip Window, but they also require a little more work to setup.  The first thing you need to do when you want to create a new Code Snippet is create a new text file (doesn't matter where) with a ".snippet" extension.  Code Snippets are actually stored in XML, and most of the XML tags in the snippet contain metadata about the snippet.  Go ahead and paste the following into the top of that new text document you just created.

Actuate One Conference

On November 8th, 2012, I attended the one day ActuateOne Live! conference put on by Actuate in San Francisco.  The following are some of my notes from that event.

Upcoming PowerBuilder.TV Episodes

Appeon Mobile - Live Demo! : Take your PowerBuilder applications mobile - Armeen Mazda
November 8th at 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 18h00 CET (Paris)

VHG-Tools Platform — PowerBuilder .NET, Expression Blend, Web, and Cloud - Dmitri Joosten
November 13 at 9:00 AM PST (Los Angeles) / 18h00 CET (Paris)