Furthering the use and understanding of PowerBuilder and other Sybase products.
Exchange information, problems, ideas, experiences, resources and questions related to the use of PowerBuilder and Sybase products. This will be facilitated through addressing specific problems of Switzerland, building a network of contacts, coordinating activities, creating a lobby of Swiss PB and Sybase product users and, not least, through the user group meetings.
Influence the direction of development activities for Sybase products.
Negotiate special deals with vendors.
 
Upcomming Events
Next Meeting is Thursday, March 29th 2012, Hotel Senator, Zurich
Agenda
09:00 Welcome
09:05 Foundations: SOA / WCF Technology Overview, Refactoring C/S apps to support distribution. Lab
10:30 Break
10:45 Classic .NET 2.0 WS approach using SOAP: Deploy server components, Modify client for remote access
12:00 Lunch
13:00 WCF .NET WS approach using SOAP: Deploy server components, Modify client for remote access
15:00 Break
15:15 WCF RESTful services NET WS approach using SOAP: Deploy server components, Modify client for remote access
17:30 End of meeting
Register for the meeting at Upcoming Events
At the end of the day you should be able to:
Use PowerBuilder Classic 12.5, PowerBuilder .NET 12.5 and MS IIS to
Create & deploy client&server elements of a multi-tiered (distributed) application using both REST and SOAP technologies
Migrate a small Client/Server application to a distributed architecture using both REST and SOAP technologies
Developer Prerequisites: Professional level skills with coding PB Classic Client/Server applications. Basic familiarity navigating, coding and deploying a small application in the v12.x PB VS .NET IDE. Recommended that you bring a notebook with PB12.5 and IIS installed and working.