Category Archives: CLR

Re-using COBOL rather than converting it to C#

Posted on August 2, 2012 by spgennard

While reading a article on-line about using “NACA transcoder” to translate COBOL into Java it got me thinking about modernizing COBOL. While I agree 100% about the actual code generated by the NACA transcoder is not maintainable, I disagree that … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Windows Azure

Posted on January 12, 2011 by spgennard

As someone has been working with Windows Azure since its early days I understand how much effort it takes to get started with the platform. Luckily over the last couple of Windows Azure SDK releases the documentation is started to … Continue reading →

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A good new years gift…

Posted on January 9, 2011 by spgennard

My day job keeps me housed in Visual Studio 2010/Windows, so for my out of hours development I feel I need a change, so for many years I have been a home mac and/or linux user; anyway I have used … Continue reading →

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Michael’s very own “Getting Started with Visual COBOL”

Posted on January 4, 2011 by spgennard

Michael Burgun over at his own blog space has started blogging about using Visual COBOL… Its worth a look as having meet Michael last year I can honestly say he is a very knowledgeable and experienced chap, so I am … Continue reading →

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Attachmate acquires Novell for $2.2 billion

Posted on November 23, 2010 by spgennard

Over the last decade I have gained quite a lot of respect for Novell mainly due to their SUSE Linux platform and Mono. Strangely one of the companies involved in the acquisition is “Golden Gate” from San Fran, looks like … Continue reading →

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Java… does it have a future? Well not for me..

Posted on October 22, 2010 by spgennard

As someone who has used Java for my own development needs for years, I find it sad the Java platform appears to be falling apart or at the very least getting some bad press. Lets consider the recent events, we … Continue reading →

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SQLCLR – Drop Assembly + Dependancies

Posted on October 7, 2010 by spgennard

Recently I have had the pleasure of working on SQL Server 2008 R2 using the SQLCLR support. Which I must admit it is quite nice to use, though a couple of things have anoyed me while using… one of which … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 22, 2010 by spgennard

Last week I replied to a post about exceptions, it made me think those programming .Net daily take for granted the etiquette of using Exceptions. So I thought I would share some of my thoughts… well it is a sort … Continue reading →

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Extending Visual COBOL 2010

Posted on July 1, 2010 by spgennard

One of the many great reasons for choosing Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 as our development platform for Visual COBOL 2010 is it ability to be extended… which we have done but you equally use third party extensions too. One of … Continue reading →

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Method Chaining

Posted on May 28, 2010 by spgennard

Creating objects with a complex constructor can be a bit of a pain in any language. One technique I have used is method chaining. It is not applicable to every type of class but it can be useful. Method chain … Continue reading →

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