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Jul 27, 2016 at 06:46 PM

Guidance on getting PB7 COM web services to run on Windows Server 2012

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Hi, All,

It's been about 8 years since I've done any PowerBuilder! It's been an interesting experience, looking at a lot of PB code and reactivating the PB lobe. 😉

I am under a deadline to get COM web services written in PB7 to work on Windows Server 2012. Apparently COM doesn't work on that OS. If someone has better information, please tell me.

Someone who just left the company tried two approaches. First he tried to recreate the logic in new web services written in C#. Then someone had the brainstorm that he could simply convert the PB code to .Net assemblies using PB 12.6. In theory that would be less risky, because the PB logic would be unchanged.

The second strategy failed. The guy working on it ran into problem after problem. For example, dynamically assigned DWOs were missing from the .Net assemblies, a problem he solved by including the DWO syntax in a Create(). He ran into a half-dozen issues like that, and concluded that he was not going to be successful.

He left so now it's my job. I'm inclined to go to the C# web services approach.

That is, UNLESS you have advice about how to get PB7 COM web services to gracefully convert to .Net assemblies. I'll be very grateful!

Thanks for the help - Hoyt