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From: Joe Cool <jcool@toronto.cbc.ca>
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development,comp.lang.basic.visual,comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.databases.sybase
Subject: Re: Visual Basic vs. PowerBuilder
Date: 22 Dec 1994 14:25:35 GMT
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> Before I could do anything to stop it, Jon Barron wrote:
> 
> > So? PowerBuilder does not offer .VBXs. This alone can make or break a project.
> 
> While you cannot *create* VBX's with PowerBuilder, you can *use* them as 
> user-defined objects.
> 
> Myself, I have yet to see a situation where being able to use VBX's made 
> or broke a project.
> 
> --
> 
> Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a       | a-Henh!
> fully charged icing annointment utensil, he poots forth |   
> a tiny green rosette near the summit of a dense but     |      Brian
> radiant muffin of his own design.			|      Wilson
> 							|
> We miss you, Frank!                                     |

There is one important issues that Powersoft likes to keep quite about...

Powerbuilder only supports version 1.0 of MS's VBX standard (if you want to call it a standard.)
Many of the version 3 VBX's will not function correctly with Powerbuilder,

Regards.