Basic PowerBuilder Classic 12 Programming

Course Number:  718-TP
Recommended Duration:  5 days

Intended Audience
This intensive hands-on course is designed for application programmers responsible for the design and implementation of client/server applications using PowerBuilder Classic 12.

Course Overview
This course introduces participants to the PowerBuilder Classic 12 development environment.  Each component of the PowerBuilder Classic 12 IDE is covered in the context of using PowerBuilder to develop GUI-based client/server business applications.

Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the participant should be able to:

• Use the System Tree to create workspaces and targets.
• Use the Application Painter to create application objects.
• Use the Window Painter to create windows.
• Use the PowerScript language to write scripts to perform required processing.
• Create user functions and user events.
• Use the DataWindow Painter to create Data Windows and select appropriate presentation styles and data sources.
• Use the Query Painter to interactively construct and edit SQL statements.
• Use the Database Painter to define extended attributes and manage database tables.
• Use the Menu Painter to create traditional and contemporary menus.
• Debug PowerBuilder applications.
• Package a PowerBuilder application for distribution.
• Discuss the alternative deployment types, including pcode, machine code, and .NET WinForm applications.

Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of the Windows operating system is needed. Participants should have taken an Introduction to SQL course or equivalent experience.  Experience in a programming language such as COBOL, Visual Bacic, C++, or Java is also needed.

Topics

• Introduction to PowerBuilder

• The PowerBuilder Classic Environment

• Creating an Application

• Creating Windows

• PowerBuilder Scripts

• User-Defined Functions and Events

• Creating DataWindows

• Implementing DataWindows

• DataWindow Updates

• Creating Menus

• MDI Applications

• Distributing the Application

• Supplemental Topics (as time permits)