Don Draper

The ability to add TCP/IP communications capability to your PowerBuilder applications can make you a valuable member of any development team. In the past, developers have relied on skills which required low-level coding and a steep learning curve. This might include making difficult calls to the Winsock API and managing socket connections, application protocol processing and state level management. Your project could grow old while you learn the Winsock API! That has all changed with Distinct Corporation's Visual Internet Toolkit-32 and PowerBuilder 5.0's capability to use ActiveX controls. ActiveX controls provide a whole new level of extensibility to PowerBuilder, much like VBX controls have done for Microsoft's Visual Basic for years. PowerBuilder developers can now create powerful Internet capable applications in record time with a minimal learning curve. Acti... (more)