Learn PowerBuilder Quickly - Part -1.1 Powebuilder Startup

Hi

Power builder is a Best Tool, for developing database related projects and account management and so. The main feature of the PowerBuilder is the Datawindow. Can say it’s a heart of the PowerBuilder. We can do whatever we want in PowerBuilder. That Much it will bend for us. Here am going to give a notes, or lesson about PowerBuilder. This may help for Beginners in PowerBuilder, or who are going to start learn about PowerBuilder. Up to My knowledge i will give best things, so that anybody can learn easily.

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To start learn about PowerBuilder one must know about any of the database management systems.
Here am using the MS SQL server as the Database and PowerBuilder 10.5 version.

Here after PowerBuilder is referred as PB.

The Main things we want to know initially about PB is
    -> Workspace
    -> Target
    -> Application
    -> Library
    -> Objects

Workspace
    It’s the place where we are going to create the Target and Application.
    It’s like the outside box like CPU Panel, Gift Box, Packaging Box Anything, for your Better understanding purpose so it’s the Container where all the things will be stored
    In Technical Term is defined as Shows the targets that have been selected for deployment and the active    projects and deployment configurations.

Target
    its the place where our main thing is relay , That libraries , in general , library may contain , books , magazines , newspapers , CD's etc.
    Like Wise in PB     It’s the Wrapper of the Gift, so we can wrap many gifts in single wrapper, likewise, here many objects are grouped in libraries, and different libraries are grouped Into target

Application
    Application is what we are accessing inside that wrapper.
    Technically application is the standard PB object. Where we are going to Create Library
    We can have many Libraries in single Application.

Library
    As i stated above in Target Section library can contain many different objects in it
    Technically A library is a collection of compiled object definitions and source objects stored in the same location.

Objects
    If you know about VB then you could be familiar with objects. (If you don’t know, then it’s not a problem)
    The term Object refers to Window, Button, Check box, Label, Radio Button, etc.
    Technically objects can be said as, in object-oriented programming, an object is a self-contained module containing state information and associated methods
  
    So as far as now, we have learned about what is workspace, what is Target, what is Application, what is library, what is Objects. If you know these concepts well then you have learned the basics of PowerBuilder now.


    In upcoming post we will know next thing about PowerBuilder.

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Regards
Pushparaj