Creating Forms with COBOL by Rick Malek on Nov 05, 2009
We've done numerous articles on how to interface COBOL with other .NET languages. Here is something a little different, creating a form using only COBOL. This is part 1 or the article and it will cover creating the form, adding controls and enabling them and calling .NET classes. Part 2 will show you how to make things disappear!

Working with COBOL Data Groups by Rick Malek on Oct 19, 2009
COBOL programmers have used data groups to package data together for a long time. How though does a non-COBOL user access the data being used by the COBOL programs?

COBOL Calling C# by Rick Malek on Sep 21, 2009
Last month we had an article describing how C# could a COBOL class. Well this month we present a user provided example of COBOL calling C#!

COBOL: It's Everywhere by Rick Malek on Sep 03, 2009
"COBOL is Dead!"..."COBOL is dying"... "COBOL won't last another 5 years"...how many times have we heard these lines or similar in the past 20 years? Guess what... Ain't true!

Converting C# to COBOL by Rick Malek on Aug 22, 2009
Converting C# to COBOL? Why would anyone want to do that? Is it possible? What are the reason? Actually there are some very good reasons explained in the article.

Declaring Namespaces with Micro Focus for COBOL.NET by Michael Bleistein on Aug 21, 2009
In this article we will see how to use the ILUSING directive to declare namespaces in your COBOL.NET programs using Micro Focus.

Calling COBOL from C# by Rick Malek on Aug 13, 2009
There is a lot of COBOL code in production around the world. Rewriting that code into another langugage just to change the language makes little sense and introduces a high level of risk. Instead of changing the COBOL code that has been working and doing it's job for quite a while, why not interact with it using C#? This article shows how to utilize C# to call both procedural and object oriented COBOL.

COBOL for .NET: The more things change the more they stay the same by Rick Malek on Jul 29, 2009
Back in 2002 I wrote a series of articles dealing with COBOL and .NET integration. Since that time, quite a bit has changed. This article reviews the changes and sets the stage for upcoming articles from a world renown COBOL vendor.

ADO.NET, COBOL and Stored Procedure by Rick Malek on Dec 24, 2008
A stored procedure is basically a series of SQL statements that reside on the database. The procedure could create a new table, retrieve data from one or more tables, update one or more tables or perform many other tasks.

Calling Procedural COBOL from C# by Rick Malek on Jan 31, 2006
In a previous article we discussed how to call procedural based COBOL programs from VB.NET.

Cobol for Microsoft .NET by Narayana Surapaneni on Jan 30, 2006
This article gives you introduction about how the age old COBOL can take a new energetic look under Microsoft.NET.

Welcome to COBOL.NET, corner of the C# Corner by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
This column will hopefully help those of you looking to use Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET. We are going to present some "How To" articles beginning with the basic information about the environment, the interaction with Visual Studio.NET, the Designers and the COBOL language.

Why Object Orientation for COBOL? by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
Why is Microsoft interested in having so many languages target the new environment?

Calling Procedural COBOL from VB.NET by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
Many clients will have existing COBOL source code that they will want to use within the .NET Framework.

Working with COBOL Data Groups in C# by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
In this article we will begin with a C# console application calling a COBOL DLL file. The C# application will pass it a number of occurrences to create in the table (much like a user requesting a specific number of months to report on).

COBOL and .NET Data Types by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
.NET has created a new, level playing field for a multitude of programming languages to interact on a scale never before seen.

Converting C# to COBOL by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
In this article we'll take a look at some C# samples of code and then translate those samples into COBOL.

Data Access with ADO.NET by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
This first article will provide a brief history of data access as well as provide the basic flow for using ADO to access data.

Accessing COBOL Properties with C# by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
This article will review a new option for exposing those assets via the use of Properties.

Using OLEDB in ADO.NET with COBOL by Rick Malek on Jan 30, 2006
The SqlClient class was created by Microsoft and is used primarily to access a SQL Server database.

Consuming a Web Service from NETCOBOL by Sushila Patel on Jan 29, 2006
This article shows you how to consume a Web service from NetCOBOL.

ODBC usage in .NET by Rick Malek on Jan 29, 2006
This article will provide a template of how to represent a smallint, integer, decimal, varchar and other ODBC data types that are used in the SQL Server environment in COBOL.

Localization in COBOL .NET by Rick Malek on Jan 29, 2006
This article will show you how to use the power of LOCALIZATION within Visual Studio .NET to create one screen and have it display different languages.