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Also known as Appeon PowerBuilder, pb

PowerBuilder is an integrated development environment owned by SAP since the acquisition of Sybase in 2010. On July 5, 2016, SAP and Appeon entered into an agreement whereby Appeon, an independent company, would be responsible for developing, selling, and supporting PowerBuilder.

Key facts

Software.name
Appeon PowerBuilder
Software.logo
PowerBuilder 2017 Logo.png
Software.logo size
120px
Software.caption
Screenshot of PowerBuilder 2017, editing a REST Web API call
Software.developer
SAP/Appeon
Software.released
July 1992
Software.latest release version
PowerBuilder 2025
Software.latest release date
May 7, 2025
Software.latest preview version
None
Software.programming language
C++ and C#
Software.operating system
Microsoft Windows
Software.language
English, Japanese for the IDE (numerous languages supported for deployed applications)
Software.genre
IDE
Software.license
Commercial

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Internet Archive

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Developing PowerBuilder 4 applications

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.appeon.com
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software version identifier
PowerBuilder 2025
inception
1992-07-01
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14 sections
Contents
  • Features
  • Usage
  • History
  • Early history
  • Recent history
  • Features
  • RDBMS interfaces
  • Integration with third-party software
  • Compilation and debugging
  • Criticism
  • Community
  • PowerBuilder Tools
  • References
  • External links

PowerBuilder is an integrated development environment owned by SAP since the acquisition of Sybase in 2010. On July 5, 2016, SAP and Appeon entered into an agreement whereby Appeon, an independent company, would be responsible for developing, selling, and supporting PowerBuilder.

Over the years, PowerBuilder has been updated with new standards. In 2010, a major upgrade of PowerBuilder was released to provide support for the Microsoft .NET Framework. In 2014, support was added for OData, dockable windows, and 64-bit native applications. In 2019 support was added for rapidly creating RESTful Web APIs and non-visual .NET assemblies using the C# language and the .NET Core framework. And PowerScript client app development was revamped with new UI technologies and cloud architecture. In 2025 the IDE was revamped with new code editor and ultra-fast compiler.

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