Why PowerBuilder?
The hallmark of PowerBuilder has always been simple and productive app development, powered by DataWindow technology. Today, PowerBuilder supports developing a wide range of projects for on-premise or cloud deployment, including n-tier and Web API programming. Organizations with years of existing investments in PowerBuilder have a low-cost and low-risk path for modernization.

Internet-Accessible Apps 
Rapidly develop n-tier apps with a REST API middle tier. Automatically recompile existing client/server projects for cloud deployment and replace aging VDI solutions.

Modern UI & UX 
Create modern experiences for client/server and cloud apps with UI themes and modern controls, such as RibbonBar, WebBrowser, RichTextEdit, and more.

REST API Enablement 
Easily expose business logic as REST APIs with powerful code generation tools & the .NET DataStore. Consume any Web API with either REST-specific or generic HTTP client.

Advanced Security 
Secure apps with advanced approaches, such as application signing and integrity validation, strong data encryption, TLS 1.3, and leading token technologies.

Powerful IDE 
Boost productivity with powerful IDE features, such as tabbed code editor, decoupled IDE & runtime, Git/SVN integration, continuous integration, and more.

OS & DB Compatibility 
Make your apps compatible with the latest operating system and various relational databases, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SAP SQL Anywhere, and more.

What's New in 2022 R3

App Features for Both Client/Server and Cloud Apps

Auto Data Validation 
Effortlessly validate user inputs against the data in the DropDownDataWindow or DropDownListBox by enabling the validation property either through coding or through the property painter.

PDF Enhancements 
More functions and properties have been added to PDFBuilder for better presentation and handling of PDF documents, such as set fallback font, automatic recover font, setting margins, and support of SVG images.

RichTextEdit 
Additional formatting buttons, including functions like RightToLeft and Increase Indent, are conveniently located within the toolbar of the RTE control. Users can effortlessly customize text displays to suit specific language or formatting needs.

Tabbed MDI Window 
Developers gain more control over the tabbed window, like tab open direction, height, and more, for an optimized navigation experience.

UI Theme Enhancements 
Increased the drag area of the window border for smoother resize manipulation and introduced more themes to diversify the choices.

Flexible Image Loading 
Load images from URLs for both PowerServer and PowerClient apps, facilitating external downloading of images.

Other Enhancements

IDE Enhancements 
Cloud Deployment 
Stability Enhancements 

*Supports a maximum of 5 User Sessions.
 

System Requirements
Make sure your system meets all requirements before you install PowerBuilder IDE. See the release bulletin for the most current information about required service packs.

Note
If you want to install the product using the PowerBuilder Installer (an online installation program), make sure your system also meets the requirements listed in Preparing your environment.

 PowerServer 
Deploy Your PowerBuilder Apps to the Cloud, Automatically.

Why Choose PowerServer?

Internet Access
Enables end users to access the existing PowerBuilder apps from Windows devices over the Internet. The apps look and work the same as before, supporting almost all PowerBuilder features. There is no need to retrain end users or compromise on functionality.

Web Security
With a cloud-native architecture, end users no longer have direct access to the database, and all SQLs execute safely on the .NET server behind the firewall. Data is securely consumed from the REST APIs over secure HTTPS protocol after being authenticated using token technology, such as OAuth.

Minimal Effort
PowerServer automatically converts almost every single existing PowerBuilder feature, including the PFC framework. Typically, a cloud conversion requires just weeks of work, and future maintenance requires only PowerBuilder skills.

 InfoMaker 
Sophisticated Reporting Made Easy

InfoMaker is a powerful, easy-to-use, reporting tool for creating sophisticated reports and forms without writing any SQL code. 

Connect Broadly
to a wide range of data sources, including database and files.

Design Visually
your reports and forms, without writing any SQL code.

Share Freely
in many data formats: PDF, HTML, XLSX, XML, CSV...