PowerBuilder Practical Tutorial (Second Edition)

Author: Zheng Aqi, Yin Hongxian, Zhang Weimin
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: This book is suitable not only for teaching but also for users who want to learn and reference PowerBuilder to develop application systems. By reading this book and combining it with hands-on practice, completing the exercises and experiments in the book, readers can grasp PowerBuilder and its application techniques in a relatively short time. The book includes four parts: practical tutorials, exercises, hands-on operation guides, and comprehensive application practice. The practical tutorials systematically introduce the PowerBuilder 9.0 development environment, PowerBuilder language, windows and window controls, database creation, data window objects and controls, user-defined objects and event functions and structures, menus, SQL statements, cursors, data pipelines, PBL library managers, etc. The exercises mainly train basic concepts. The experimental part focuses on training the corresponding basic content and operation methods, with experimental content serving as both an application problem and a development problem. The comprehensive application practice integrates all parts into a small application system. This book can be used as a textbook or teaching reference for relevant courses in undergraduate and vocational colleges, or as a learning and reference for users developing PowerBuilder application systems.