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Heino Hellmers

This session will cover RDL as an alternative to the DataWindow report for PowerBuilder developers and end users. RDL is a standard proposed by Microsoft for defining reports and it is used for reporting by many applications from different companies. RDL can be used in local mode as an independent and low budget reporting solution with many different datasources (like Oracle, Microsoft SQL-Server, ODBC and OLE DB) and in remote mode together with Microsoft SQL-Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

The attendee will be exposed to the Report Definition Language (RDL), its architecture and various features and possibilities in the context of creating, designing, using and embedding RDL reports. The presentation will take the attendee from an entry level view to being able to unlock many of the RDL features like charts, maps, tablixes (table+matrix), interactive reports, page control or native export to Word (.docx) , Excel (.xlsx) and PDF file. This will also include demonstrations of real-life working application code – including how to embed RDL reports into PowerBuilder applications.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 504

Chris Pollach

This workshop will cover the "Integrated" version of the Software Tool & Die (STD) Foundation Class libraries for PowerBuilder Classic, Appeon Web and Appeon Mobile. The attendee will be exposed to the framework, its architecture, services and various features that support the Win32, Web Browser and iOS/Android mobile platforms. The workshop will take the attendee from an entry level view to being able to unlock many of the framework’s advanced constructs. This will also include numerous demonstrations of real-life working application code. Attendees are invited to bring their laptops to install the Foundation Classes directly.

Duration: 120 min.
Location: Classroom 502

Chris Pollach

This workshop will cover the “Web Service” version of the Software Tool & Die (STD) Foundation Class libraries for PowerBuilder Classic. The attendee will be exposed to the framework, its architecture, services and various features that specifically support the .Net Web Service platform. The workshop will take the attendee from an entry level view to being able to unlock many of the framework’s advanced constructs. This will also include numerous demonstrations of real-life working application code – including how to integrate this with Appeon Web and Appeon Mobile. Attendees are invited to bring their laptops to install the Foundation Classes directly.

Duration: 120 min.
Location: Classroom 502

John Strano

PowerBuilder has long been heralded as the most productive custom application development environment in the industry. We'll examine multiple architectures and avenues for having PowerBuilder develop the presentation layer and business logic for retrieving, manipulating, transforming and persisting data for custom solutions on the HANA platform.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 504

Christophe Dufourmantelle

This presentation will introduce a revolutionary technology in the field of data analytics. Unlike high-end solutions like IBM Netezza or Teradata, it is 100% software-based and does not require any database migration. It runs in between the clients and the existing DB, focuses on BI applications, and has a much more affordable price-range than its Competitors.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Auditorium

Gian Luca De Bonis

Install and configure Reporting Studio in your environment. Create new reports and integrate them with your application.

Duration: 120 min.
Location: Classroom 504

Gian Luca De Bonis

Install and configure Reporting Studio in your environment. Create new reports and integrate them with your application.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 502

Chris Pollach

This seminar will expose the attendee to the techniques needed to build a PowerBuilder Classic application and deploy this as an MS-Windows Service component. The approach and implementation techniques of then multi-threading the service for performance and scalability will be reviewed and then how to build an architecture around the Windows Service for RAD development and operational considerations like email notifications, console, debug/tracing, etc. production support.

Duration: 90 min.
Location: Classroom 504

Franck Fasolin

The session will show examples of GUI features implemented with PowerBuilder Classic. It will then focus on the code needed to:
• Implement an "Outlook" search and display oriented GUI in you PB windows, by using only datawindows.
• Display and Interact with Google Earth
• Display pictures and use gradient in grid Datawindows.
• Use png pictures for buttons with hyperlink behavior.
• Use nice colors in PB graphs
• Build windows that look like Web pages (and moving them to Web with Appeon)

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 502

Christophe Dufourmantelle

Install and configure Visual Expert in your environment.
Analyse your code and get a copy valid until the end of 2015..

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 502

Bruce Armstrong

A walk-through of creating non-visual assemblies in Visual Studio.Net and then using those assemblies in PowerBuilder Classic via COM Callable Wrappers.
Prerequisites:
• Visual Studio Express 2010 or later
• PowerBuilder Classic 4.0 or later

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 502

Matt Balent

This session gives participants the opportunity to create their own JSON Parser as a C# COM component which can be consumed within PowerBuilder. The component itself will utilize the open source project JSON.Net. Bring a laptop with Visual Studio installed if you wish to follow along and build this "on the fly".

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 504

Chris Pollach

The Amazon Cloud platform is a rich environment to host your Web and Mobile applications enabled via Appeon. In this seminar we will take you through the steps to allocate, configure, install and manage an Amazon cloud space that includes Appeon, DBMS, PB Run-Time for Web Services, and your PB Application (including deployment techniques).

Duration: 90 min.
Location: Classroom 506

Chris Pollach

Enabling your Web and Mobile applications to implement secure communications for sensitive data and transactions is a must in today’s internet based world. This seminar will take the attendee through the steps necessary to build and deploy server and client certificates – then enable trusted connections through Secure Socket Layer communications. This will also include techniques on how to automatically switch your Appeon applications into SSL mode.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 506

Armeen Mazda

In this workshop, experienced Appeon staff will help you install and configure Appeon 2015 to your Windows laptop in the most straightforward manner. Topics covered include Microsoft IIS configuration, Web browser configuration, Appeon Server installation, Appeon Developer installation, and Appeon Plugin installation. This workshop is recommended for all PowerBuilder developers interested in trying Appeon but do not currently have Appeon 2015 or Appeon 2013 R2 installed to their machines.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 506

Don Clayton

PowerBuilder 12.6 is a potent development platform that remains among the most productive programming environments available. But times change: user interfaces are now "User Experiences". The Internet is everywhere, and system access is often taken for granted. But some things never change: users still want applications that are powerful and pleasant to use, and systems that leverage their computing platforms of choice effectively.

In this session, Don will discuss two real-world development projects to build entirely modern, Enterprise-class Appeon systems from the ground up. Topics will include the strategic decisions made regarding platforms, architecture, appropriate reuse of legacy code, and designing a UX with an eye towards for the future. In addition to showing these groundbreaking development efforts, Don will discuss a variety of ways to update older applications to achieve higher user satisfaction and productivity, and how to leverage PowerBuilder with Appeon to achieve your goals. A variety of tools, including PowerBuilder 12.6 and Appeon 2015 Web and Mobile will be demonstrated.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 506

Kay Jenkins

Kay Jenkins will discuss her company's partnership with Appeon and the unique challenges that have (and have not) been addressed in a commercial software solution deployment of PowerBuilder and Appeon.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 506

Song Li

This session shares the real-life experience of a US software vendor developing a suite of mobile apps in PowerBuilder to deploy at 400+ customer sites. This is a technical-focused session that outlines how to achieve a user-friendly UI/UX, fast performance, and mobile-specific functionality on iOS and Android devices. It includes technical implementation details and demonstration of the following features: locking screen orientation, zooming large data sets, handling gestures, creating mobile-specific controls, integrating maps, making phone calls, minimizing memory consumption, minimizing server calls, optimizing heavy nested reports, and more.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 506

Fili Sosa

Sizes and Colors is a Point-of-Sale solution that was developed 15 years ago in SAP Sybase PowerBuilder. The application was migrated to the Web with Appeon and today, it is a cloud-based application that is hosted on five servers at a Dallas datacenter with 2,650 shoe stores running it. Even during time periods with increased sales (holidays, for instance), the Appeon application maintains a high transaction rate per second with minimal CPU use. The cloud platform makes applications such as Sizes and Colors very affordable, particularly for small and medium-sized businesses, since companies can share resources and they do not need to purchase servers or any infrastructure. In 2013, Sizes and Colors created a Mobile App for iOS with Appeon Mobile. The Mobile App gave Management the ability to access real time data from anywhere using their iPhone, Ipod and Ipad. The same Mobile App was also deployed for Android devices couple months ago and it was amazing that the same PowerBuilder code used for the iOS devices works also in the Android. To add more power to the App, we also uploaded data to SAP HANA and created a Report for the Mobile App. The same data is also in Microsoft SQL Server and we compare the speed of both.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 506

Brian Le Suer

This session will demonstrate how AscentialTest reduces the costs of testing PowerBuilder and other applications by making testers more productive. You will learn how AscentialTest eliminates the need for custom test frameworks and allows domain experts to build manual and automated tests without scripting or recording.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 504

Armeen Mazda

In this workshop, experienced Appeon staff will guide you through all the basics of starting an Appeon Web or Mobile project. Topics covered include configuring your project, establishing database connection, developing Appeon-compliant code, and deploying your Web or Mobile application. This workshop is recommended for all PowerBuilder developers that have Appeon 2015 or 2013 R2 installed to their machines.

Duration: 60 min.
Location: Classroom 506