PowerBuilder

What is PowerBuilder?

PowerBuilder lets you build faster and better business apps for Windows, iOS, and Android. Develop visually using proven technology standards. Deploy device- independent, operating system, and database-independent applications. Who knew that building data-rich cloud applications could be so easy?

What is PowerBuilder?

A Visual IDE

PowerBuilder is a simple, intuitive, visual-oriented IDE to quickly develop client/server or cloud applications.

Cloud App Architecture

You can use PowerBuilder to create pure or hybrid cloud applications that are powered by REST Web APIs with a microservice architecture.

Programming languages

It supports PowerScript as native client programming language and C# as server programming language.

.NET Technology

Server-side programming is powered by .NET Core, which is Microsoft's open source, high-performance, open source .NET framework. All server runtime libraries are 100% managed code.

Powerful data access

DataWindow technology makes accessing and manipulating data simple and easy, regardless of the development of client/server applications or in the cloud.

Web and Mobile Deployment

Together with PowerServer, you can quickly deploy your projects to the web and mobile devices using a universal code base.

resources

PowerBuilder brings API development and C# Web assembly to PowerBuilder with the productivity that is the hallmark of PowerBuilder. The AC# migration solution (framework and tools) is also provided so that you can take advantage of existing code assets. PowerScript client application development has been redesigned with new UI and cloud architecture technologies.

Desktop Modernization

PowerBuilder modernizes the user interface and architecture of PowerScript client applications. UI themes transform the appearance of your application in a coded way. And a comprehensive set of web API client and security features transforms your application's architecture into a pure or hybrid cloud application.

.NET Data Access Object

PowerBuilder provides a new .NET DataStore data access object. It brings the core of PowerBuilder development to .NET, providing high PowerBuilder productivity, powerful data access functionality, and high performance. You can deploy to Windows or Linux and interact with SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and SQL.

PowerBuilder C #I DE

PowerBuilder includes a customized version of snapdevelop C# IDE. Although PowerBuilder C# projects can be maintained in any C# IDE, PowerBuilder C# IDE makes it easy to develop non-visual C# projects (for example, APIs and Web assemblies) using PowerBuilder's .NET data access objects.

Migration Solution

PowerBuilder provides the fastest way for existing applications to migrate to C# and the cloud. The migration approach is a gateway to your non-visual logic, rather than a rewrite, simplifying design and reducing effort immensely. Included in the C# migration solution is a C# data model generator to automatically convert existing DataWindows to .NET DataStores.

System Requirements

32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 with SP1

Windows 8.1

Windows Server 2008 32 or 64 bit with SP2

Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2016

Windows 10