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.
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