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PowerToTheBuilder.com My first .Net PBDJ article is finished. I need idea's for more.

November 21 at 3:43pm
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PowerToTheBuilder.com What's something you can do with .Net that you can't do with PowerBuilder (classic PB)?

November 19 at 12:17pm
Bill Heys
Bill Heys
I like to explain it this way: Languages have syntax and they have vocabulary. Syntax is rules-based (are they case sensitive, how are statements terminated or continued, what are the keywords and operators). Vocubulary has to do with the properties and methods of the underlying *system* or framework classes. In the case of .NET, VB and C# have ... See Morevery different syntax, but they both sit on top of the same .NET framework classes - hence the vocabulary is similar across languages.
What this means is you can build pretty much anything with any of the .NET languages. Most of the capability and the learning is understanding the underlying .NET framework namespaces and classes. The differences are mostly minor now.
When I last developed in PB (PB 6 or 7) and moved to .NET, I was overwhelmed by the vast number of .NET framework classes and namespaces compared to PB system classes. Over time, the the .NET framework has continued to expand.
Where there were only dozens of PB system classes, there were hundreds and now thousands of classes in the .NET framework.
November 19 at 4:39pm
Bill Heys
Bill Heys
With .NET, there are so many things you can do by leveraging the underlying power of the .NET framework. Code in the framework is code you don't need to write. In order to do some of these things in PB, you either need to write a lot more code, or you need to leverage third-party libraries. Or PB needs to vastly increase the number of system ... See Moreclasses.
In theory, with PB.NET, Powerscript simply becomes another language that can leverage the full power and functionality of the .NET framework. PB developers can now leverage all of the code in the underlying framework namespaces and classes. The syntax remains Powerscript. The vocabulary becomes .NET
November 19 at 4:44pm
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PowerToTheBuilder.com New PowerBuilder categories have been added to the PowerToTheBuilder forum: http://powertothebuilder.com/support.aspx

November 18 at 7:03am
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PowerToTheBuilder.com Will be spending this week writing a PBDJ article about PB.Net.

November 16 at 10:33am
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PowerToTheBuilder.com Spending some quality time with PB.Net... What do you think of it?

November 11 at 11:05am
Roland Smith

Roland Smith This is the Admin program for my WizSource Source Control System.

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PowerToTheBuilder.com Have you built an app with the PowerToTheBuilder controls? If so, feel free to post a screen shot! Everyone is interested in seeing your work.

November 5 at 1:04pm
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Graeme Cooke

Graeme Cooke Hi Brad, do you have any screen shots of the toolbar enhancements? Thanks

October 22 at 2:00pm · Report
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PowerToTheBuilder.com What would you like to see in the next release?

October 22 at 1:18pm
Nda Aja
Nda Aja
Office 2007 menu & PB Web Version advance GUI :D..
October 22 at 5:40pm
Roland Smith
Roland Smith
Everything
October 22 at 6:43pm
Maulana Hidayatullah

Maulana Hidayatullah Dear PBers..may I ask Something...??
I want to Open a window or a tab using uo_PowerDock.Of_OpenDocument(), but, the parameter for the object value, is a string parameter that I called from the DataBase...

"uo_PowerDock.of_OpenDocument(object, as_item,as_icon)"

can anyone tell me the way or the trick to solve that problem ???

Thanks. Regard
Maulana

October 17 at 2:16am · Report
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send me an email at brad.wery@PowertotheBuilder.com
October 19 at 6:05pm
Maulana Hidayatullah
Maulana Hidayatullah
Okay..Thx B4.. ^_^
October 20 at 7:57am