European Events

I'm packing my bags for another trip to Europe. There will be some PowerBuilder 11.1 presentations next week in Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, and Brussels.

The Frankfurt event will be on the 13th of November at the Sybase office.

The Dusseldorf event will be on the 14th of November at the Sybase office.

In Brussels I will be presenting at the Sybase Symposium on the 15th of November.

If you are interested in attending the events in Frankfurt or Dusseldorf, please send an email to europepb@sybase.com

If you would like to learn more about the Sybase Symposium in Brussels, click here.

All of these events are free. Just let us know that you will be attending so we can order enough food. We wouldn't want you to go hungry!

I'll be racking up the frequent flier miles as I'll come back home for Thanksgiving and then turn around and head back to Europe at the end of this month for some more events. Here is what is happening:

Tuesday, November 27th - Swiss User Group presentation (including hands on training). Click here for more information.

Wednesday, November 28th - Dutch User Group. Details are still being finalized and I'll post the information here when it becomes available, but mark your calendars.

Thursday, November 29th - STUN TechSelect 2007 in London. You can get more information here.

So there are plenty of opportunities for our European customers to learn more about PowerBuilder 11.1 as well as the road map for 11.2, 11.5 and 12 in the next few weeks. If you can't make it one of the European events, don't despair, we will be holding a series of webcasts beginning later this month, each one covering a different aspect of PowerBuilder 11. I'll post the details here as soon as they become available.

Happy Developing!

PowerBuilder 11.1 Coming Soon!

PowerBuilder 11.1 will be released in a little over a week. While maintenance releases are usually not something to get too excited about, this one has some new features that are definitely worth exploring:

1. Enhanced Vista support
2. Data pipeline support for .NET Windows Forms targets
3. Informix 10 Database support
4. New .NET Web Form controls for menus, toolbars and the calendar control
5. Incremental Rebuild for .NET Application Targets
6. Specifying null values as retrieval arguments in the DataWindow painter
7. Statement caching for Oracle 10g
8. Enhanced identity column support for ASE 15
9. Orcascript enhancements
10. Page display properties for RichTextEdit controls
11. Web service client support in Web Forms

11.1 will be a free update for anyone who has PowerBuilder 11. I'll post information on how to download it once it becomes available.

Over the next week I'll be posting in detail about the new or enhanced features in PowerBuilder 11.1 so stay tuned.

Finally, be sure to check out my colleague Jim O'Neil's ISUG webcast on Tuesday November 13th. The topic is creating .NET Assemblies from PowerBuilder NVOs. You can register for it here.