PowerBuilder 6: A Developer's Guide

PowerBuilder^® 6 A Developer's Guide PowerBuilder 6: A Developer's Guide is the most comprehensive tutorial and reference for PowerBuilder developers using PowerSoft's Desktop and Enterprise editions. Based on the author's authoritative PowerBuilder seminars, this guide offers proven examples, full source code, and expert advice that can make any PowerBuilder user into a PowerBuilder master. The first section teaches PowerBuilder fundamentals, from using painters to creating and manipulating windows. More advanced topics like embedded SQL, inheritance, and distributing applications round out the core areas that every PowerBuilder developer needs to master. The second section tackles high-level issues: developing multi-tiered applications, Internet development, advanced DataWindows, extending PowerBuilder, working with objects and the PowerBuilder Foundation Class Library. The final section covers PowerBuilder certification and preparing for the Certified PowerBuilder Developer exam. The companion CD-ROM includes full source code for more than 30 example applications that demonstrate every key feature of PowerBuilder. Additions, updates, and revisions to the book will be available from the author's Web site via links on the CD-ROM and Web links from http://www.mandt.com. You'll Get Complete Coverage of:

• PowerBuilder programming basics
• Distributed processing and Internet development
• Multiple Document Interfaces
• Event-driven programming
• Every important painter—from PowerScript Painter to DataWindow Objects
• Encapsulation with OOP and user objects
• Extending PowerBuilder with DLLs, OLE, and DDE
• Creating and programming advanced Data Windows including graphs and reports