What you will learn

This tutorial will not make you an expert in PowerBuilder. Only experience building real-world applications can do that. It will give you hands-on experience, though, and provide a foundation for continued growth.

Client/server applications

You will learn basic PowerBuilder techniques and concepts, including those listed in Table 2-2:

**Table 2-2: Features demonstrated in the PowerScript tutorial**
How to use the	To
Application painter	Define an Application object and application-level scripts
Window painter	Create SingleLineEdit controls, StaticText controls, CommandButton controls, DataWindow controls, window-level scripts, and control-level scripts
DataWindow painter	Define selection and display options
Menu painter	Define menus, menu items, accelerators, and shortcut keys
Layout view	Design how the windows, menus, and DataWindows will look when you run the application
Script view	Define scripts for applications, windows, window controls, and menus
Debugger	Identify logic errors that may cause problems when you run the application
Project painter	Create an executable version of an application

.NET applications

You will learn basic .NET target techniques and concepts, including those listed in Table 2-3:

**Table 2-3: Features demonstrated in the .NET target tutorial**
How to use	To
.NET Web Forms wizards	Convert a client-server target to a Web Forms target and deploy it as a Web Forms project
Global variables	Modify the page navigation toolbar type in a Web Forms application
.NET Windows Forms wizards	Convert a client-server target to a Windows Forms target and deploy it as a Windows Forms project
Intelligent update technology	Publish a Windows Forms application to a Web browser and install the application from the browser