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Basic Programming using PowerBuilder
(PB101) 5 Days
Lecture 60%/Labs 40%
Course Description
This course teaches the fundamentals of building and deploying client/server applications using Sybase PowerBuilder. Recent versions of PowerBuilder use a new Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which is covered thoroughly in both lectures and labs. Each component of the IDE is covered in the context of using PowerBuilder to develop GUI-based applications. This course teaches the development methodology required to build, debug, and deploy two-tier applications using object-oriented and other "best practices" for PowerBuilder.
Course Objectives
Upon Completion of the course you will be able to:
- Create Targets, Windows, Workspaces, DataWindows, Applications, Application Objects, and Menus using the IDE.
- Design menus and connect them to Windows using the Menu Painter.
- Define extended attributes and manage database tables using the Database Painter.
- Debug PowerBuilder applications.
- Create user functions and user events.
- Use the DataWindow Painter to:
- Create DataWindows.
- Select presentation styles.
- Select data sources.
- Use PowerScript to write scripts to perform necessary processing.
- Design and test PowerBuilder reports.
- Utilize the following object-oriented programming techniques:
- Inheritance to build class hierarchies to create windows, menus, and user objects.
- Encapsulation for information hiding and packaging of business rules and database transaction handling.
- Polymorphism to simplify the programming interface.
- Understand the tradeoffs of using design and programming techniques such as DataWindows, generic messaging, and application partitioning.
Who Should Attend
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3GL, 4GL, or client/server programmers with little or no PowerBuilder experience who will use PowerBuilder to build and deploy client/server applications.
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Existing PowerBuilder developers who use versions earlier than 7.0 and want to build partitioned, object-oriented PowerBuilder applications and to learn the IDE.
Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of the Windows operating system.
- Familiarity with Graphical User Interfaces (GUI), Structured Query Language (SQL), and relational database concepts.
- Experience in a procedural programming language such as COBOL, PASCAL, JAVA, or C++.
- Object-oriented language experience is desirable.
Cost & Scheduling Information
Group or individual pricing is available.
This course is available at our facilities or by arrangement.
Course Outline
- Introduction to PowerBuilder
- Application Architectures
- PowerBuilder Database Access
- Object-Oriented Programming
- Creating PowerBuilder Applications
- The PowerBuilder Development Environment
- Windows and Workspaces
- Toolbars
- Panes and Views
- Application Objects and Targets
- Creating and Modifying Application Objects
- Creating Targets
- Creating and Customizing Windows
- Types of Windows and Controls
- Adding and Customizing Controls
- Using Inheritance
- Creating and Customizing PowerScript
- PowerScript Language and Functions
- Assignment Statements
- Property Modification
- Inherited Scripts
- Creating and Customizing DataWindows
- Presentation Styles
- Data Sources
- DataWindow Objects
- Managing Database Tables
- Database Profiles and the Database Painter
- Extended Attributes
- Manipulating Data
- Implementing DataWindows
- DataWindow Controls and Processing
- Transaction Management
- Dynamic Sorting
- DataWindow Updates
- DataWindow Buffers
- Modifying Rows
- Creating Menus and Menu Scripts
- Menu Painter
- Menu Scripts
- MDI Applications
- Frame and Sheet Types
- MDI Menus
- Multiple Sheet Instances
- Deploying the Application
- Project Painter
- Executable Build Process
- Dynamically Accessed Objects
- PowerBuilder Resource Files (PBR) and Dynamic Libraries (PBD)
- Machine Code Executables
