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Would you agree that your existing PowerBuilder applications contain a wealth of knowledge, development effort and hard-learned lessons about your business processes? That your applications really have been adapted and modified to exactly match the way you do your business?

I believe you would. And you would not mind to increase your development productivity and to diminish your maintenance costs!

MainTrend's PowerBuilder Utilities Tool will help you to achieve your business goals!

Business benefits:

1. Accelerates the delivery of new application features
2. Reduces maintenance costs
3. Diminishes lack of skilled personnel
4. Increases user satisfaction and business productivity

Technical features:

• export all the PowerBuilder objects from your PowerBuilder libraries (pbl's) to one directory
• determine (based on the export logs) whether you have duplicated PowerBuilder objects in your application
• calculate source lines for all your exported files (either in ASCII or UTF-16 encoding)
• build a cross-reference report, and, based on this report:
  • give you a list of "unreferenced" objects - these objects are candidates for the application clean-up
  • produce a subset of referenced objects, based on an initial list.
• measure statistical metrics for your application
• reverse engineer your DataWindows to xml representation (only in advanced version)
• capture your PowerBuilder business logic to a Windows Communication Foundations solution (only in advanced version)

The direct links are:

A regular version:
http://maintrend.net/PB/PBUtil.php

An advanced version:
http://maintrend.net/PB/PBUtil02.php

For more information you can contact us at:
Email: powerbuilder@maintrend.net
Site: http://www.maintrend.net/