1. PowerBuilder 11.5 Geared Up for Accelerated Development
John Strano
Technology Evangelist

2. Capabilities and Features Since PowerBuilder 11.0
Incremental rebuild for .NET Targets
PowerBuilder 11.2
Certificate Store Support for Smart Client-published applications
Usability and UI Enhancements
Database Connectivity Enhancements
Enabling the DEBUG Condition for ORCA and OrcaScript
Application Pools for Web Forms in IIS7
Telerik RadControls Support
EAServer Support for .NET-deployed PowerBuilder Clients
AJAX Functionality for WebForm-Deployed Applications

3. PowerBuilder Videos For more PowerBuilder 11.x detail…

4. PowerBuilder 11.5 Overview

5. Products Packaged with PowerBuilder 11.5!
Premiums Packaged with
PowerBuilder 11.5!

6. Packaged with PowerBuilder 11.5!
PocketBuilder 2.5
PowerBuilder Application Server Plug-in 1.1
PowerBuilder Skills for Heterogeneous Environments
Mobile
JEE
.NET
Client/Server

7. PowerBuilder 11.5 Features7

8. .NET
Code Access Security

9. Brief Introduction of Code Access Security (CAS)
Code Access Security is for .NET applications at runtime
It’s complementary to Role-Based security
While Role-Based security answers the questions of "Who is the user and what can the user do?" …

10. Brief Introduction of Code Access Security (CAS)
…Code security answers the questions of:
Where is the code from?
Who wrote the code?
What can the code do?
CAS is a resource constraint model
PowerBuilder 11.5 supports CAS for:
Windows Form (and Smart Client)
Web Form applications
NVOs (as Web Services or as Assemblies)

11. Security in Windows Form–Design time
Security settings for code groups are designated in the project painters
Four levels of trust
Full Trust (default)
Local Intranet Trust
Can be customized
Internet Trust
Custom

12. Security in WebForm / Web Service
By default, WebForm and Web Services are deployed and running with “Full trust” level
Can choose “Custom” level in project painter
A new configuration file web_customtrust.config is generated and referred in application’s web.config
Application will be running in custom trust level
Security setting in web.config and web_customtrust.config will take effect in runtime

13. Security in WebForm / Web Service
WebForm security in project painter
WebForm deployed with custom trust

14. Strong Name Support for .NET Applications
You can ensure that a name is globally unique by signing an assembly with a Strong Name
Strong Names attempt to guarantee authorship of code
Strong Names satisfy the following requirements:
Strong Names guarantee name uniqueness by relying on unique key pairs
Strong Names protect the version lineage of an assembly
Strong Names provide a strong integrity check
A strong name consists of an assembly's identity—its simple text name, version number, and culture information (when provided)—plus a public key and digital signature. It is generated from an assembly file using the corresponding private key. The assembly file contains the assembly manifest that includes the names and hashes of all the files that make up the assembly.

15. Strong Name Support for .NET Applications
PowerBuilder 11.5 can generate Strong Named assemblies for all .NET applications
Can be put into GAC and shared by multiple Applications
Can protect the assembly from tampering
NVOs as .NET Web Services and as .NET Assemblies can be called by partially trusted callers if they’re signed with Strong Name
Mark the assembly with AllowPartiallyTrustedCallerAttribute
Note: Select this property unless you trust the callers
A strong name consists of an assembly's identity—its simple text name, version number, and culture information (when provided)—plus a public key and digital signature. It is generated from an assembly file using the corresponding private key. The assembly file contains the assembly manifest that includes the names and hashes of all the files that make up the assembly.

16. Strong Name Support for .NET Applications
Sign an assembly as strong name assembly

17. PowerBuilder .NET Security Summary
CAS provides you more security control on system resources
However, it makes the developer’s work and administrator’s work more complex, and may cause more problems for the end users when running the application if not adequately planned and managed
Need to work with system administrator to get the system’s security policy during development
Need thorough testing with intended security policy
Always grant the minimal, not the most, permissions enough for performing certain operation to reduce potential risks

18. More resources on .NET CAS
.NET Framework Developer's Guide: Code Access Security
How to Add a Trusted Publisher to a Client Computer for Click Once Applications
.NET Framework tool: Code Access Security Policy Tool (caspol.exe)
Code Access Permissions from .NET Framework
ASP.NET Code Access Security

19. PNG Graphics Support

20. PNG Support
PowerBuilder 11.5 supports the Portable Networks Graphics (PNG) file format for images in…
Menus
Toolbars
Treeview controls
DataWindow objects
PNG images have an “alpha” channel for transparency
Transparent portions of a PNG image display the background color gradient of the control to which they are assigned

21. FDCC Compliance

22. FDCC Compliance
The Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC) is a security standard
Mandated by the US Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

23. FDCC Compliance PowerBuilder
To meet the FDCC security requirements, PowerBuilder 11.5 can be installed only by a system administrator
However…
PowerBuilder
Applications that you develop with PowerBuilder
…are designed to be run in a standard user context without elevated system administration privileges

24. FDCC Compliance
Most PowerBuilder files install by default to Program Files\Sybase subdirectories
Write access to these subdirectories is restricted to administrative users
FDCC requires all writable files must be copied or installed to directories where standard users have write access

25. FDCC Compliance
Writable files that are shared by all users are installed in…
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\Sybase\PowerBuilder 11.5
These include…
The EASDemo databases
All Code Examples directories and files
All PowerBuilder Help files
The Translation Toolkit directories and files

26. FDCC Compliance
User-specific writable files are installed in the default Program Files\Sybase subdirectories but:
Are copied to different locations the first time a user starts PowerBuilder
There will be as many copies of these files as there are standard users who use PowerBuilder
C:\Documents and Settings\UserName subdirectory
Files copied or written
Local Settings\Application Data\Sybase\PowerBuilder 11.5
• PBxxx.INI files
• License files
My Documents\Sybase\PowerBuilder 11.5\Tutorial
• PowerBuilder Getting Started tutorial

27. Transaction Object Enhancement

28. Transaction Object Enhancement
PowerBuilder 11.5 adds two new events for the Transaction object…
DBError
SQLPreview

29. Transaction Object Enhancement
With Embedded SQL…
Whenever an error occurs in the Transaction object, the DBError event is called
The error code and error message are passed to the event
The SQLPreview event on the Transaction object is triggered before SQL statements are passed to the DBMS

30. Transaction Object Enhancement
DBError in concert with a DataStore or a DataWindow…
DataWindow/DataStore DBError event is triggered before the DBError event of the Transaction object
To coordinate these two events…
Two additional return values have been added for the DataWindow DBError event
The meaning of the existing return values is expanded to indicate whether the Transaction Object's DBError event should be fired

31. Transaction Object Enhancement
…cont’d…
SQLPreview in concert with a DataStore or a DataWindow…
If the return value of the DataWindow or DataStore’s SQLPreview event is 0:
Continue processing
The Transaction object's SQLPreview event is triggered

32. Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets

33. Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets
PowerBuilder NET targets do not require you to have IIS installed on the development computer
When you deploy directly to a remote computer…
System information about the deployment computer, including its OS and IIS versions, is passed to PowerBuilder…
…through the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) interface

34. Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets
If you deploy to an MSI setup file…
Run the setup file on a deployment computer
PowerBuilder can use the Windows API to obtain information about the OS and IIS versions on that computer

35. Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets
When you attempt to deploy Web Target projects on Vista or Windows 2008 under a standard user account…

36. Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets
The User Account Control (UAC) dialog box displays
This dialog box allows you to elevate your privileges for the purpose of deployment

37. Remote Deployment of .NET Web Targets
Deploying .NET targets to a remote Windows Vista or Windows 2008 computer might require changes to…
UAC
Windows firewall
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) settings

38. Support for
MS SQL Server 2008

39. SQL Server 2008 Driver: Transaction Object Syntax
New Database Connection Parameter “Provider”
Use the “SQLNCLI10” Provider value
Required to take advantage of new features
Default Provider value is SQLNCLI
Only supports SQL Server 2005 features
Example:
SQLCA.DBParm = “Provider='SQLNCLI10‘”

40. SQL Server 2008 Driver
Mirroring Support
New Data Types
T-SQL Support

41. SQL Server 2008 Driver New Data Types TIME & DATETIME2 types
Have 0-7 fractional seconds precision.
PowerBuilder supports 0-6 fractional seconds precision.
DATETIMEOFFSET
Not supported in PowerBuilder 11.5
CLR Types
HIERARCHYID
SPATIAL DATA – GEOGRAPHY & GEOMETRY
UDT – User defined CLR Types
FILESTREAM
NOT strictly a new data type but a new storage mechanism for Varbinary(max) data

42. SQL Server 2008 Driver : T-SQL Support
Row Constructors
INSERT INTO Employees VALUES ('tom', 25, 5), ('jerry', 30, 6);
ESQL / DSQL
FORCESEEK – Table Hint
Forces the query optimizer to use only an index seek
ESQL / DSQL and DataWindow data source
MERGE Statement
Dynamic SQL only
GROUPING SETS

43. SQL Server 2008 Driver: Delayed for GA
The MS SQL Server 2008 release was delayed
The GA version of our driver cannot be included in time for the PowerBuilder 11.5 GA
Resolution:
We will release PowerBuilder 11.5 with the SQL Server 2008 RC driver and support its GA in an EBF

44. Support for
Oracle 11g

45. Oracle 11g Support Client Access through Proxy
New DBParm “ConnectAs” is used to set the End User
Session and Connection Pooling
New “Pooling” DBParm
"CnnPool='Yes'“ …is now… "Pooling='Connection Pooling‘“
Implicit Fetching ROWID with SELECT … FOR UPDATE statements
“ROWID” no longer needs to be explicitly added in the select items
Client-side caching of SQL query result sets

46. Oracle 11g Support OCI Driver Name XML data type support
Diagnostic aid
“AppDriverName” DPBARM parameter allows you to set your own client driver name
XML data type support
Oracle XMLType data type - introduced with Oracle 9i
Supports returning single XMLType values from an Oracle cursor

47. .NET Interoperability Language Enhancements

48. .NET Interoperability Language Enhancements
PowerBuilder 11.5 will now…
Support method calls on PowerBuilder and .NET primitive types
Support method calls on PowerBuilder and .NET enumerated types
Support accessing static members of .NET classes with instance references

49. .NET Interoperability Language Enhancements
Function calls on .NET primitive and enumerated types:
Must be made inside a conditional compilation block for a .NET target.

50. .NET Interoperability Language Enhancements
Function calls on .NET Primitive Types:
Functionality of the primitive types is now merged with the functionality of their corresponding PowerBuilder primitives
#if defined PBDOTNET then
System.Int32 i1
long i2
i1.ToString()
i2.ToString() …
#end if

51. .NET Interoperability Language Enhancements
Function calls are also supported on .NET enumerated types that you import into a .NET target
An enumerated type from an imported assembly:
namespace ns1.ns2;
Public enum TimeOfDay {
Morning = 0,
AfterNoon = 1,
Evening = 2 }

52. .NET Interoperability Language Enhancements
e.g.: PowerBuilder allows you to call the ToString() method on the .NET TimeOfDay enumerated type after you reference it in your target:
#if defined PBDOTNET then
ns1.ns2.TimeOfDay daytime
daytime = ns1.ns2.TimeOfDay.Morning!
daytime.ToString()
#end if

53. .NET Interoperability Language Enhancements
PowerBuilder 11.5 lets you use instance references to access static members of .NET classes
string s
#if defined PBDOTNET then
//OLD WAY
//s=System.Web.HttpContext.Current.ToString()
//NEW WAY
System.Web.HttpContext context
context = System.Web.HttpContext
s = context.Current.ToString()
#end if

54. DataWindow Enhancements

55. New DataWindow Features: Supported Targets/Platforms
Traditional Win32
Windows Forms Target
Smart Client-Published WinForm Applications
InfoMaker 11.5

56. Tooltips Supported in all DataWindow presentation styles
Except RichText and OLE
New property tab – New properties
Columns and all Control types
All new properties are expression-enabled

57. Gradients/Translucency of Backgrounds
Supported in all DataWindow presentation styles
Except RichText and OLE
New property tab – New properties
Bands
Columns and all Control types
All are expression-enabled (except for DWO scope/level)

58. Text Translucency New Property on Font Properties tab
Columns
Text
Buttons
Group Boxes
Computed Columns
Expression-enabled

59. New DataWindow Object-Level Properties
Same as band/column/control background properties except…
Not expression-enabled
Transparency is not really transparent
Defaults to a white background
Extras
Images and Tiling

60. New Properties for Picture Control
transparentcolor
Designate a color in the image to be transparent
Transparency
Expression-enabled

61. New Column Edit Style - RichText
Supported in all DataWindow presentation styles
Except RichText and OLE
Comes with Floating Font Toolbar
Can be disabled
Roll your own using new events, functions

62. New Column Edit Style - RichText
RichTextToolbarActivation
New DataWindow control property – Enumerated
Enumerated values
RichTextToolbarActivationNever!
RichTextToolbarActivationOnEdit!
RichTextToolbarActivationAlways!

63. New Column Edit Style - RichText
New Events
RichTextCurrentStyleChanged
pbm_dwnrichtextcurrentstlechanged (long row, DWObject dwo)
RichText column has focus
The current style of the selection or cursor position has changed
RichTextLoseFocus
pbm_dwnrichtextlosefocus (long row, DWObject dwo)
RichText column loses focus
RichTextLimitError
pbm_dwnrichtextlimiterror (long row, DWObject dwo, string text)
RichText data exceeds column size
The “text “ argument is the plain text of the current column

64. New Column Edit Style - RichText
New Functions for getting and setting text…
Style (bold/underline/italic)
Color
Size
Alignment
Font

65. New DirectX Rendering for 3D Graph Styles
DirectX 9.0c (Direct3D) – Prerequisite
Depends on drivers supporting Direct3D
Graceful degradation to traditional rendering in case Direct3D is absent
Support can be checked by running DXDIAG.exe from a command prompt
Installed by PowerBuilder 11.5 for the developer on “first use”
Anti-aliasing should be disabled

66. New DirectX Rendering for 3D Graph Styles
New Functions
GetSeriesTransparency/SetSeriesTransparency
GetDataTransparency/SetDataTransparency
GetSeriesLabelling/SetSeriesLabelling
GetDataLabelling/SetDataLabelling

67. SUMMARY: PowerBuilder 11.5
Delivers Core Functionality Enhancements
DataWindow Look and Feel
Support for Newer DBMS versions
.NET Interoperability Language Enhancements
.NET Code Access Security
IIS7 and Vista

68. Advanced PowerBuilder 11.5 Education
Moving to PowerBuilder 11.5 (DEV545)
PowerBuilder 11.1, 11.2 and 11.5 changes and enhancements
.NET enhancements and target integration with EAServer 6.1
Configure CAS (Code Access Security) security zones for .NET targets
Advanced Web Services in WinForm and WebForm applications
Fast Track to PowerBuilder Part II (DEV633)
Taught on PowerBuilder 11.5
Focus on advanced client/server application development
Gain higher-level expertise to build and deploy fully functional applications using PowerBuilder’s more advanced features
Sybase Education: provides a wide range of training delivery options: Onsite, SyberLearning LIVE, SyberLearning OnDemand and Learning Center
Attend a class by December 31, 2008 and receive a 20% discount (NA & CAN only)

69. Q&A Thank you.