This book is for anyone who builds applications with PowerBuilder®. It assumes that:
You are familiar with user interface guidelines. If not, consult a book that covers user interface conventions.
You have a basic familiarity with SQL. If not, consult a book that describes SQL statements.
This book describes the PowerBuilder development environment. It shows you how to use PowerBuilder user interface tools to build the objects you need, including windows, menus, DataWindow® objects, and user-defined objects, to create client/server and multitier applications.
Application Techniques presents information about programming techniques and building multitier applications.
Deploying Applications and Components to .NET explains how to build applications in PowerBuilder and deploy them as .NET Windows Forms or ASP.NET applications. It also describes how to deploy custom class user objects as .NET assemblies and Web services.
The DataWindow Programmers Guide explains how to use DataWindow objects in different environments and presents programming techniques related to DataWindows.
For a description of all the books in the PowerBuilder documentation set, see the preface of the PowerBuilder Getting Started manual.
Use the Sybase® Getting Started CD and the Sybase Product Documentation Web site to learn more about your product:
The Getting Started CD contains release bulletins and installation guides in PDF format. It is included with your software. To read or print documents on the Getting Started CD, you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can download at no charge from the Adobe Web site using a link provided on the CD.
The Sybase Product Documentation Web site is accessible using a standard Web browser. In addition to product documentation, you will find links to EBFs/Maintenance, Technical Documents, Case Management, Solved Cases, newsgroups, and the Sybase Developer Network.
To access the Sybase Product Documentation Web site, go to Product Documentation.
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