Yakov Werde

Paul Harvey, the great American radio personality, would always conclude his colorful broadcasts with the quip "And now you know the rest of the story." For those of you not acquainted with Paul's broadcasts, here's a sample. If you get to about 3:40 in, you'll hear the classic remark. Paraphrasing Paul's tag line, in this article you'll learn "the rest of the story" about RAD Development methodology in PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET using a Referenced PB Assembly Target. I'll explain the technique and implementation steps using the open source PEAT PFC demo application. In a previous PBDJ article, "Slicing the Pie with PowerBuilder .NET 12.1 EBF Project Partitioning," I wrote about achieving Classic RAD-like build/test speeds in .NET WPF applications by configuring the Project object partitioning feature. This feature lets you logically carve up a large application into a... (more)

Slicing the Pie with PowerBuilder .NET 12.1 EBF Project Partitioning

There are all kinds of pies, chicken pot pie, shepherd's pie, cherry pie and of course good ol' American apple pie. Every host or hostess knows that pies are perfect circles. There are infinite ways to divide and serve them. They can be cut in halves, thirds, quarters, eighths, sixteenths or any combination thereof. If a pie is small, you might even choose to serve each guest a whole pie. It's up to you to determine which size pieces are appropriate for your guests. In a sense, configuring a .NET application for deployment is a lot like dividing a pie. You can deploy the entire ... (more)

The Missing Link

Application partitioning is a hot topic lately. If you've been following my articles in this publication and in ISUG Journal, you are no doubt beginning to get the picture of what application partitioning is all about. You now know that an application has three logical layers: user interface; business access and data access. You also know that the ultimate goal of partitioning in a .NET application is to extract business and data access logic into distinct sets of assemblies whose methods can be called from the GUI layer to accomplish application processing. With reference to di... (more)

RESTful Web Services: A Quick-Start How-to Guide - Part 1

Among PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET's new features comes the ability to use WCF to call RESTful web services. This article, the first in a two-part series, provides a PowerBuilder 12.5 .NET developer with the foundational knowledge and skills to rapidly get up and running building PowerBuilder RESTful Web Service clients. Along the way I'll share with you a few tips and workarounds. Introduction PowerBuilder 12.0 .NET provided the ability to call SOAP-based web services using Microsoft's .NET 3.5 WCF API. I encourage those of you not familiar with WCF and SOAP to view my PowerBuilder W... (more)

Bye Bye SetRedraw( )

A common Classic PB code technique when modifying the displayed contents of window controls, is to turn off screen refresh by calling SetRedraw( false ), performing the update activity and then calling SetRedraw (true). Setredraw( ) is one of those graphic object methods that falls by the wayside when migrating to .NET.  It is no longer supported.  Is this a bad thing that will give your users a migraine headache or a non-issue? This post and the accompanying video will give you a refreshing understanding of the issue and help set your expectations when you migrate and see those ... (more)