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| Sybase Releases PowerBuilder 10.5 Sybase has announced the availability of Sybase PowerBuilder 10.5, the next-generation rapid application development (RAD) tool. PowerBuilder 10.5 features key functionality enhancements and offers improvements to the DataWindow, a patented data access, presentation and manipulation tool. These enhancements provide total integration for client/server, distributed and mobile applications. Significant enhancements in version PowerBuilder 10.5 include: * Enhanced DataWindow Capabilities - A key feature for developers, PowerBuilder's DataWindow greatly simplifies data access and data presentation - two tasks that are essential to most enterprise applications and often are difficult and time consuming. Stemming from enhancement requests from the user community, DataWindow improvements offer even more user-friendly features, including: - Build complex forms and reports with ease using autosize height functionality for all bands in a report, not just the main band where the data resides. - Utilize a new presentation style, the TreeView DataWindow that enables hierarchical data to be easily displayed. - New properties make complex data access, data manipulation and data presentation an easier, codeless, graphical experience. * New Rich Text Control - Empowers customers to deliver rich text in their applications, providing support for the latest rich text specification from Microsoft. * New Data Type Support - Offers built-in support for new data types creating a more robust product and better enables support integration with new technologies and other applications within the enterprise * Richer and Fuller Support for Web Services - Allows developers to use this industry standard without having to incur a learning curve. PowerBuilder developers can now play an active role in building applications that access a variety of data from customers' vendors and other services through the new Web Services support. * User Interface Enhancements - With all new icons, menus and toolbars, developers are able to quickly and intuitively build and bring fresh and modern looking applications to the market. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |