Agenda

Elevate 2023 Keynote

Armeen Mazda, Julie Jiang, Chris Pollach, José Miguel Rodríguez

You will see the latest product developments and learn about Appeon's future plans. The conference keynote will consist of opening remarks by the CEO of Appeon, product roadmap information, a PowerBuilder 2025 sneak peek, and a customer success story.

Chat Café

PowerServer Rehearse

Marco Meoni

Learn the concepts that lie behind Installable Cloud App (ICA) and the new features in PowerServer 2022 R2. Topics covered are refactoring of the PS project and changes in the C# solution, ultra-fast building and dynamic API URL. The demo will illustrate how straightforward is the migration to the Cloud of existing PB apps and show code-based switching between API servers. A look back to PowerServer 2022 will brush up on key aspects of App Launcher and Database pooling, namely cache mapping, long connection and call merging.

What's New in PowerBuilder 2022 R2 - Part 1

Bruce Armstrong

Get an in-depth training on all new features of PowerBuilder 2022 R2 with sample code. Topics covered include: updated system requirements, discontinued/obsolete features, WebBrowser engine upgrades, PDF builder enhancements.

What's New in PowerBuilder 2022 R2 - Part 2

Bruce Armstrong

Get in-depth training of all new features of PowerBuilder 2022 R2 with sample code. Topics covered include: RichTextEdit control enhancements, Native SMPT email support, HTTPClient enhancements, UI theme enhancement, OpenURL function, autocomplete for DDDW & DDLB, TabbedView for MDI, source control enhancements, strict encryption for SQL server, .NET 6 upgrade, and more.

Migrating to PowerBuilder 2022 R2

Bruce Armstrong

Learn how to upgrade your PowerBuilder applications to the latest version. Topics covered include the migration process, discontinued/revised features, PFC migration, Unicode conversion, 64-bit compilation, and a live demo of migrating a PowerBuilder 9 app to PowerBuilder 2022 R2.

REST API: The Paladin of Modern Applications

Marco Meoni

Learn the key steps of migrating PB logic to REST API. Topics covered are recap of 3-tier model, REST architecture, HTTP protocol and ASP.NET Web API development. Static and dynamic datacontext is explained. A first demo will show how to generate full-fledged datawindow-based API in a flash. Lesson learned from collaborations with UI designers and .JS frontend developers highlights changes needed to SnapDevelop projects to comply with REST conditions and best practices on how API should work. A second demo will show a modern cross-platform web app, featuring C# datastore backend and Vue.JS frontend.