Dear Sybase User; 

    Please join us on Wednesday, May 6, 2009 for the next Ottawa Sybase User Group (OSUG) special event! OSUG's mission is to create a Sybase community in the National Capital area where users can share knowledge, experiences, and best practices. Users of all Sybase products, including data management, tools and mobility are welcome to attend. This meeting will feature networking opportunities, product updates and a discussion.

    With the release of PowerBuilder 12 scheduled for 2010 production, Sybase will be entering the complete world of the Microsoft world with their premier development tool. This release is completely housed within the .Net Isolated Development Shell which is Microsofts answer to the Eclipse Java IDE shell from IBM. In the last meeting late last Fall, OSUG was priviledged to see some preliminary features of PB 12 direct from the engineering labs - presented by John Strano . At this special event, attendees will get to see the first full version of PB 12 ready for a complete test drive. In this meeting, Presenting PB 12 will be Mr Dave Fish from Sybase engineering - a returning presenter. OSUG members will be the first world-wide to see PB 12, get a detailed overview, demonstrations and a 1/2 day training session. To complete this historic event, attendees will be able to take a copy of PB 12 home with them at the end of the day!

     The new PB 12.Net is based on the WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) features of the .Net framework that utilizes the new XAML language. For those who are planning to attend this event and are interested in a briefing technology behind the scenes of PB 12, I would like to recommend the following reading:

• Part 1 (XAML): Learn about XAML and how it is used in WPF applications.
• Part 2 (Layout): Learn about layout panels and how they are used to construct user interfaces.
• Part 3 (Data binding): Learn how WPF data binding works and how it can be used.
• Part 4 (Data templates and triggers): Learn how data templates and triggers work and how they can be used.
• Part 5 (Styles): Learn about how UIs can be styled in WPF.

     The OSUG May 6, 2009 meeting will be held in Ottawa at Constitution Square in the double Board Room (down the hallway from the Queen's University MBA lecture theatre). Constitution Square is located at 350 Albert Street (at Lyon) just across the street from the Crowne Plaza hotel. Bus access is right to the door and parking is available at the hotel, in Constitution Square and across the street. The Double Board room  is located on the second floor (centre) and can be accessed from either the west or east elevators.

    Here is the agenda, topics and the planned activities for the day:

 Agenda

Time:            Topic:

8:15am        Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:45am        Introduction & welcome - Chris Pollach

9:00am        PB 11 - Dave Fish

• PB 12 "Classic" vs Isolated Shell
• PB 12 .Net Feature Overview
• New IDE
  
• Migration Considerations
• Classic Converte
• Script enhancements
  

10:15am       Coffee Break

• WPF
• WCF
• Debugging
• Deployment
• Futures

12:00noon     Lunch

• Lunch and Networking

1:00pm         PB 12 Code Camp - Dave Fish

• Hands-On Computer Labs

2:30pm         Coffee Break 

• Hands-On Computer Labs (Continued)
  

4:30pm         Q  & A

•   Tips and Techniques!
  

5:00pm         Wrap-up

Note: In order to participate in the "Lab" exercises, the attendee should have:

• Portable PC with at least 5G of free disk space and 2G RAM
  
• Windows XP Professional SP 3 / Windows Vista SP1
• Latest PB 12 CTP installed
  
• Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 or higher
• .NET 2.0/3.x GA (framework version 2.0.50727)
• .NET 2.0/3.x SDK (framework version 2.0.50727)
• AJAX 1.0
  
• Visual Studio 2008 for the .NET Assembly & .NET Web Service labs.
  

   Please contact Chris Pollach for clarification or help configuring your environment. You do not need a PC to attend!

** How to Register **

  To register, please send an email to: canregister@sybase.com. Please provide the following contact information (including name, company, title, telephone number, email address) and the session name “OSUG May 6 Meeting” in the subject heading. Please specify your attendance preference: Morning, Afternoon or both.   Note: Registrants will be eligible for software draws and give-aways that will occur throughout the meeting!

     Get ready to learn PowerBuilder like you have never seen before, .Net 4.0 and database RAD development on "steroids " from Sybase! There is no cost to attend and we hope to see you there! 

** Out of town Guests **
Just to let you know that the PB 12 event coincides with the largest Tulip Festival in the world. You can read all about how this got started at: Wikipedia and visit the official web site for the festival at: Tulip Festival.  Come to Ottawa on May the 6th and enjoy both events!

 ** BIO's **

 Dave Fish

   Dave Fish is a Senior PowerBuilder Evangelist and a member of TeamSybase. He has been using PowerBuilder since 1993. Dave was a co-author on a PowerBuilder 4 and a PowerBuilder 5 book. Dave has written articles for several industry publications and has developed numerous client server, distributed, and web based applications using PowerBuilder and EAServer.

 John Strano

    John Strano is a Sybase Technology Evangelist and a charter member of TeamSybase. He has been using PowerBuilder since 1991 and has authored articles for multiple industry periodicals. John has presented Sybase tools on an international basis since 1997. Over the last 15 years John has developed a variety of PowerBuilder applications from single-user scaling up to enterprise-class, web-based projects.

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