TechWave 2007 Conference Guide available

In PDF format. Includes information about who is presenting each session, in case you were waiting for that before registering for sessions.

TechWave Special Event

The special event for Thursday evening has been announced: House of Blues. We'll enjoy a buffet dinner and some rocking and rolling good times.

TechWave GO! Mobile Device Trial

Sybase is excited to offer a limited number of Sybase TechWave 2007 attendees the opportunity to try out a new HTC mobile phone this week! The mobile phones are pre-loaded with Sybase software including Information Anywhere suite that allows you to send and receive email and instant messages and access detailed conference information on-the-go.

TechWave Mobile - Powered by Sybase 365

Get a "leg up" at TechWave by receiving the latest conference information directly to your device or smartphone. All you need is a Windows Mobile device, Palm, BlackBerry, or phone with a mobile internet browser. With TechWave Mobile, you can access detailed conference schedules and session descriptions, keynote information, exhibit hall hours, and much more!To get TechWave Mobile, simply browse to http://tw.try.sybase.com on your mobile phone or text the letters TW to SYBASE (792273). For assistance, visit the South Pacific Registration Desk.

PowerBuilder on YouTube

It's in Spanish though.  It's associated with Ruben Pillaca's second PowerBuilder book: Cooking with PowerBuilder 11

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9t0w145x-Q

Calling Dot Net Components from PowerBuilder via COM wrappers - Redux

Back in August of 2006, I wrote an entry about calling .Net components from PowerBuilder using COM wrappers (i.e., CCW). Since I was basing it on a registry entry approach still, the technique demonstrated there required the component to be added to the GAC, which required (in addition to having it compiled as a COM-visible assembly) that we needed to create a strong name and sign the assembly.

Problems using ActiveX controls…

If one of the ActiveX controls on your machine has registration problems, PowerBuilder can end up being unable to use any ActiveX controls.  This manifests itself in a couple of different ways when you go to the Insert->Control->OLE... menu option and then click on the Insert Control tab.

PowerBuilder 9.x:  You will get a system fault as follows:  Faulting application pb90.exe, version 9.0.0.5507, faulting module msvcrt.dll, version 7.0.2600.2180, fault address 0x0000beab.

PowrBuilder 10.x:  PowerBuilder won't crash, and in fact the list of ActiveX controls will display.  When you drop one on the window, however, it won't behave properly.