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Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5

Two IDEs for Your Choice of Traditional Client/Server or Visual Studio/Windows Presentation Foundation Apps

Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5 is the second .NET release of the Sybase PowerBuilder application development tool, bringing true power and ease of use to .NET. With Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5, developers have two Integrated Development Environments (IDEs). You can build and deploy applications in a traditional Client/Server architecture, deploy to WebForms, WindowForms, or Smart Client applications. Or, you can leverage the power of the new IDE, built on top of Visual Studio, to develop stellar Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. Or, you can use both. You can even migrate your Win32 applications to WPF, something that no other tool provides you. Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5 supports Microsoft's Common Language Specification (CLS) and its .NET features enable you to deploy NVOs and CVUOs as assemblies for your Visual Studio teammates. In short, Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5 IS .NET, but it's much, much more than just that.

What's New in Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5?

• New WPF DataWindow Features:
  • AutoWidth Column for grid style DataWindow
  • Optimized SRD syntax
  • DataWindow Buffers in the Debugger
  • Tab Order and Enabled support
  • Child DataWindow control support
  • New Candlestick Graph DataWindow style
  • Global Functions list

• New Win32 DataWindow Features:
  • AutoWidth Column for grid style DataWindow
  • New Properties for DataWindow controls
  • Transparent Property for Window Controls
  • Transparency property for all Standalone Controls
  • Sharing data sources with .NET
  • RTF and Images in the DataWindow
  • User-Drawn Controls in the DataWindow

• New Target Types:
  • WCF Services
  • Support for Custom Visual User Objects (CVUO) as .NET Assemblies
  • PB .NET Assembly

• REST Client support
  • PowerBuilder .NET targets can be clients that consume RESTful (Representational State Transfer) Web Services

• .NET 4.0 Framework support:
  • Improved security for .NET applications
  • Improved exception handling for applications that leverage the .NET framework
  • Improved WPF 4.0 enhancements — so all the new functionality that Microsoft has put into the .NET Framework 4.0 for WPF will be leveraged in the targets listed above

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Sybase PowerDesigner: The latest release, Sybase PowerDesigner 16, is now available!

Sybase PowerDesigner 16 Unveils First Information Architecture Tool

With a strong history of supporting data and enterprise architecture implementations, Sybase PowerDesigner 16 introduces the world's first integrated Information Architecture tool. This PowerDesigner 16 release establishes cross-discipline business and technical definitions for a single version of accurate, key information assets. The integration of business and IT metadata managed in the single Sybase PowerDesigner 16 tool streamlines organization's data governance, business intelligence, integration and consolidation efforts.

New Features of Sybase PowerDesigner 16

New Features of Sybase PowerDesigner 16 include:

• Support for over 80 RDBMSs more than any other modeling tool in the industry
• Modernized, role-based user interface based on Windows 7 standards for improved usability and management
• Enterprise Glossary features to ensure business terms and definitions are established and consistently managed throughout all models to ensure everyone is speaking the same language
• Improved Link & Sync technology with Impact Analysis in the repository ensures users are gathering all the connections throughout the entire enterprise to provide mission critical decision support
• The Power Designer Portal which ensures all users have full thin client access to all authorized metadata including graphics and full element definitions and descriptions for metadata sharing to broaden stakeholder communication and involvement
• The Portal Composer that allows for a broader community of users to make edits to key information directly through the web interface
• Sybase IQ Reference Architecture Advisor allows users to understand the scope and size of their specific requirements to facilitate the planning of their Sybase IQ implementation and makes Sybase PowerDesigner 16 the only data modeling product to fully support all of Sybase IQ's unique features

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