PowerBuilder® 2017 R2
FOR WINDOWS
LAST REVISED: March 26, 2018
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Table of Contents
- Purpose
- Overview
- Migrating from any PowerBuilder version
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 12.6 or earlier
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- Oracle JDK replaces SAP JVM (IM)
- Appeon branding
- "PowerBuilder Classic" renamed (IM)
- .NET assembly/Web service not available in Standard Edition
- RichTextEdit control and RichText DataWindow changes (IM)
- PB .NET IDE and WPF Projects Removed
- EAServer Projects/Targets Removed
- Windows Form Removed
- Web DataWindow Removed
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 12.5.2 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 12.5 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 12.1 or earlier
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- RTF and Images in the DataWindow Object
- User-Drawn Controls in DataWindow Objects
- Window Control transparent Value and transparency property
- Support for New ASE 15.5 Datatypes (IM)
- Sharing Datasources with .NET
- AutoWidth Property (IM)
- Support for Tab Sequence, Enabled, and Show Focus Rectangle Properties
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 12.0 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 11.5.1 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 11.5 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 11.2 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 11.1 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 11.0 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 10.5 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 10 or earlier
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- Toolbar changes in PowerBuilder 10.5
- Icon changes in PowerBuilder 10.5 (IM)
- Migrating components to EAServer 6.0.1 or later
- Creating an EJB client application for EAServer 6.x
- PowerBuilder system types as variable names in proxies
- OLE DB performance with Microsoft SQL Server
- Change in behavior of OpenTab
- RichTextEdit control and RichText DataWindow changes (IM)
- Some PSR files must be regenerated (IM)
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 9 or earlier
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- Unicode changes (IM)
- Automatic changes made when you migrate
- ImportFile size limit
- Migrating Web and JSP targets
- JSP object model changes
- DBCS text in object properties is not converted correctly (IM)
- XML string encoding
- Runtime errors in EAServer
- Using masks with as is characters
- Format of WMF files saved from DataWindows changed
- MTS/COM+ components must be redeployed
- Change in Date function behavior
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 8 or earlier
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 7 or earlier
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- Adding targets to a workspace
- Distributed PowerBuilder is not supported
- Reserved words
- SystemError event change
- IsValid function change
- Format for color options changed (IM)
- Web DataWindow migration issues
- DataWindow method return values for empty DataObject property
- ScrollNextRow and ScrollPriorRow behavior change
- Changed behavior of OpenSheet functions
- Migrating from PowerBuilder 6.5 or earlier
