Sybase PowerBuilder 12.5 is the second full-fledged .NET release of the market’s favorite application development tool, bringing true power and ease of use to .NET. In the box, you’ll find two Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that give you options. You can build and deploy applications in a traditional Client/Server architecture, deploy to WebForms, WindowForms, or Smart Client applications. Or, you can leverage the power of the new IDE, built on top of Visual Studio, to develop stellar Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) applications. Or, you can use both.

You can even migrate your Win32 applications to WPF, something that no other tool provides you. PowerBuilder supports Microsoft’s Common Language Specification (CLS) and its .NET features enable you to deploy NVOs and CVUOs as assemblies for your Visual Studio teammates. In short, PowerBuilder IS .NET, but it’s much, much more than just that.

New WPF DataWindow Features: 

• AutoWidth Column for grid style DataWindow
• Optimized SRD syntax
• DataWindow Buffers in the Debugger
• Tab Order and Enabled support
• Child DataWindow control support
• New Candlestick Graph DataWindow style
• Global Functions list

New WPF DataWindow Features: 

• AutoWidth Column for grid style DataWindow
• Optimized SRD syntax
• DataWindow Buffers in the Debugger
• Tab Order and Enabled support
• Child DataWindow control support
• New Candlestick Graph DataWindow style
• Global Functions list

New Target Types: 

• WCF Services
• Support for Custom Visual User Objects (CVUO) as .NET Assemblies
• PB .NET Assembly

REST Client support – PowerBuilder .NET targets can be clients that consume RESTful (Representational State Transfer) Web Services.

.NET 4.0 Framework support: 

• Improved security for .NET applications
• Improved exception handling for applications that leverage the .NET framework
• Improved WPF 4.0 enhancements – so all the new functionality that Microsoft has put into the .NET Framework 4.0  for WPF will be leveraged in the targets listed above