Appeon PowerBuilder® 2017 R3
FOR WINDOWS
DOCUMENT ID: DC37774-01-1700-01
LAST REVISED: January 29, 2019
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Table of Contents
- Sample Applications
- Language Techniques
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- Selected Object-Oriented Programming Topics
- Selected PowerScript Topics
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- Dot notation
- Constant declarations
- Controlling access for instance variables
- Resolving naming conflicts
- Return values from ancestor scripts
- Types of arguments for functions and events
- Ancestor and descendant variables
- Optimizing expressions for DataWindow and external objects
- Exception handling in PowerBuilder
- Garbage collection and memory management
- Efficient compiling and performance
- Reading and writing text or binary files
- Getting Information About PowerBuilder Class Definitions
- User Interface Techniques
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- Building an MDI Application
- Managing Window Instances
- Using Tab Controls in a Window
- Using TreeView Controls
- Using Lists in a Window
- Using Drag and Drop in a Window
- Providing Online Help for an Application
- Data Access Techniques
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- Using Transaction Objects
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- About Transaction objects
- Working with Transaction objects
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- Transaction basics
- The default Transaction object
- Assigning values to the Transaction object
- Reading values from an external file
- Connecting to the database
- Using the Preview tab to connect in a PowerBuilder application
- Disconnecting from the database
- Defining Transaction objects for multiple database connections
- Error handling after a SQL statement
- Pooling database transactions
- Using Transaction objects to call stored procedures
- Supported DBMS features when calling stored procedures
- Using MobiLink Synchronization
- Using PowerBuilder XML Services
- Manipulating Graphs
- Implementing Rich Text
- Piping Data Between Data Sources
- Using RESTFul Web Services with JSON
- Supporting OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server
- Program Access Techniques
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- Using DDE in an Application
- Using OLE in an Application
- Building a Mail-Enabled Application
- Using External Functions and Other Processing Extensions
- Developing Distributed Applications
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- Distributed Application Development with PowerBuilder
- Building a COM or COM+ Client
- Building an EJB client (obsolete)
- Developing Web Applications
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- Web Application Development with PowerBuilder
- Building a Web Services Client (Obsolete)
- General Techniques
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- Internationalizing an Application
- Building Accessible Applications
- Printing from an Application
- Managing Initialization Files and the Windows Registry
- Building InfoMaker Styles and Actions
- Deployment Techniques
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- Packaging an Application for Deployment
- Deploying Applications and Components
- Deploying 64-Bit Windows Applications
