Nathan Pralle is a programmer in the Research and Development department of Creative Solutions Unlimited, Inc. in Sheffield, IA. He programs daily in PowerScript, SQL, Perl, C, VC++, and InstallScript. On the side he is a partner in Binhost Technologies, an Internet service provider, and BinFone Telecom, a VoIP services provider, both out of Laurel, MD. In his spare time he is an avid barbershop singer, vintage computer collector, and philosopher. He shares his living space with his wife, Yolanda, and their cat, Leo.
Recently, I needed to have FTP support embedded in a PowerBuilder application
that I was writing for my day job. Since PowerBuilder lacks the ability to
natively manipulate sockets (a big negative, Sybase), a third-party solution
had to be found or I was going to be tempting the wrath of the Windows API,
something I wasn't looking forward to doing.
After searching, testing, and coming up less-than-satisfied, along came
WeOnlyDo! Software's FtpDLX component (www.weonlydo.com). A free trial with a
30-day timeout sounded promising, so I gave it a shot. At first, I had some
problems understanding the process by which it worked under PowerBuilder, but
with some perseverance and e-mails to WeOnlyDo! (WOD) support, I was able to
make a functional and extensible FTP-enabled application.
The WOD FtpDLX component is a combination COM and ActiveX component that can
be installe... (more)
Nathan Pralle is a programmer in the Research and Development department of Creative Solutions Unlimited, Inc. in Sheffield, IA. He programs daily in PowerScript, SQL, Perl, C, VC++, and InstallScript. On the side he is a partner in Binhost Technologies, an Internet service provider, and BinFone Telecom, a VoIP services provider, both out of Laurel, MD. In his spare time he is an avid barbershop singer, vintage computer collector, and philosopher. He shares his living space with his wife, Yolanda, and their cat, Leo.
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