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)

Implementing Drag and Drop from your application to Windows Explorer

Getting PowerBuilder to accept file drops from Windows Explorer is fairly straightforward.  Getting it to support drag and drop of files from your application to Windows Explorer is actually fairly straightforward as well, but not entirely obvious.  We're going to start looking at how to do with starting with the .Net target types (WPF and .Windows Form) and then look to see how we might use the same technique for Classic Win32 applications.

Using Autoincrementing Columns from a PowerBuilder DataWindow

Note:  This blog entry is basically the written version of a video I did for the SAP Database and Technology Academy.  You can either watch the video or read the blog entry, or both if you're so inclined.

Don't miss the SAP Database & Technology Academy

It's a series of short (e.g., < 15 minute) videos explaining how to use various SAP products.  Here's the first set for PowerBuilder, with more coming soon.

http://www.youtube.com/user/saptechnology/videos?query=PowerBuilder

PowerBuilder Developer's Conference - Day 5 - TeamSybase breakfast

Normally TeamSybase gets together a couple of times during a TechWave, perhaps a day before it starts for a team meeting and then at least once more during the event for a lunch or dinner.  This year we were only able to get together on the last day for breakfast, and even then some had to leave early (or not even make it) because of early flights.

None the less, we were able to accomplish the primary thing we wanted to accomplish during the gathering.  We presented Sue Dunnell with an award recognizing her efforts in product management for the PowerBuilder product.

PowerBuilder Developer's Conference - Day 4 - Lunch and Clubhouse

After my second session I headed over to the exhibit hall to get some lunch.  On the way, I heard someone shout out "free beer" from the Clubhouse area.  I don't drink, but it still got my attention, so I wandered over, just in time to find Dave Fish and John Strano offering a demonstration of PowerBuilder 15 for all of the SAP TechEd attendees.