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 c...
Overview of how to use the System.Array class with Micro Focus COBOL.NET. Covers the syntax needed to create and use Arrays. Includes examples and sample code
. This article is intended to be used as a model for you to follow when you run into a C# example and need to convert it to COBOL.
In this article I will show how to work with the TreeView object and ListView object.
In this article you will learn how to use ListView controls in .NET.
Let's start by taking a look at a simple and pretty standard COBOL way of handling exceptions. We’ll then see how that same example would be coding in a managed environment utilizing Visual COBOL.N...
Micro Focus released Visual COBOL R4 earlier this year and it has turned out to be an awesome addition to Visual Studio 2010. The development teams have done a great job in delivering a very usable...
Micro Focus released VisualCOBOL R4 earlier this year and it has turned out to be an awesome addition to Visual Studio 2010.
This article reviews the common properties of the CheckBox control. These are the name, text, checked and checkstate properties. We’ll also review the use of events associated with a CheckBox.
This article is about the DateTimePicker control. Our examples will focus on a single control. We’ll show you how to manipulate the properties of that control programmatically. We may have to inclu...
Our examples will focus on a single control. We’ll show you how to manipulate the properties of that control programmatically.
The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with an example of how to read the RM file system from a native COBOL program and have it display on a managed WinForm.
The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with an example of how to read and set environment variables from within a managed COBOL environment. We will utilize a WinForm to provide our u...
In this article we will see how to use the ILUSING directive to declare namespaces in your COBOL.NET programs using Micro Focus.
Beginning with this article all projects will be created using the Micro Focus Visual COBOL environment.
In another article we discussed the use of creating a COBOL interface class to interact between your existing COBOL applications and the languages in the .NET Framework. This article will review a ...
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?
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 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? 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.