A PowerBuilder library (.pbl file) is a binary file containing PowerBuilder objects such as DataWindows and functions. Although you can browse all objects in PowerBuilder, and edit the source code when you convert the application from Oracle to SQL Server, it is useful to export a libary to source code and then use a tool to automate the conversion. For example, you can use tool to extract all SQL statements from PowerBuilder source code for assessment, analysis, or conversion.

A PowerBuilder library contains PowerBuilder objects that exported to the following files: •. You can also write a PowerScript program to automate export of objects from a library (.pbl file). PowerBuilder provides LibraryExport and FileWrite functions. For example, to export the DataWindow object d_countries from pb_demo1. Kingdoms.exe Medieval 2 Total War 1.5. pbl library, and save it to d_countries.srd file, you can use the following script: String ls_dw Integer li_FileNum // Export the DataWindow object to string ls_dw = LibraryExport ( 'd: demo pb_demo1.pbl', 'd_countries', ExportDataWindow! ) // Save to the file li_FileNum = FileOpen ( 'd: export pb_demo1 d_countries.srd', TextMode!, Write!, LockWrite!, Replace! ) FileWrite (li_FileNum, ls_dw ) Additionally, you can use LibraryDirectory function to get a list of the objects in a PowerBuilder library, and then call LibraryExport for each object.