TecnoTRENDS has been using PowerBuilder as its main development platform for
years. The ultimate reason for choosing PowerBuilder was the versatility of
the Sybase DataWindow control available under this platform. In short, the
DataWindow control provides a significant productivity boost in the
development cycle by making both the manipulation and visualization of
relational data a simple task. As Sybase made the DataWindow control for .NET
generally available, we at TecnoTRENDS were given an opportunity to migrate
our code base into the .NET platform and, at the same time, improve its
development using the DataWindow control by introducing a more
object-oriented development approach.
Unfortunately, object-oriented development faces a critical problem that
remains larg... (more)