Thomas Zang

PBDJ - PowerBuilder Journal Nowadays .NET has become a mainstream programming platform. To be inline with PowerBuilder's .NET deployment and .NET development strategy, the PowerScript language will be enhanced to be a true CLS-compliant .NET language in PowerBuilder 12. Users will be able to consume and extend any CLS-compliant .NET resource, thereby saving them a lot of development time. On the other hand, many modern language features will be brought into PowerScript as well, such as interface and namespace. These features are delivered in a 4GL manner to maintain PB's productivity and bring PowerScript's differentiators to other .NET languages. The original PowerBuilder object model is kept as much as possible to maintain the backward-compatibility; minimize the lear... (more)

PowerBuilder's .NET Strategy

.NET has become a mainstream programming platform. To be in line with PowerBuilder's .NET strategy (.NET deployment and .NET development), PB11 introduced many .NET-related features: Its .NET compiler enables users to develop .NET Windows Forms (including SmartClient) applications and ASP.NET Web Forms (including AJAX-enabled) applications with functionality similar to PB's native pcode c... (more)