Category Archives: COBOL

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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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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AzureKit and COBOL

Posted on December 14, 2010 by spgennard

AzureKit is a nice piece of source code released on CodePlex by Mark Rendle. The AzureKit makes life much easier for creating, searching, deleting elements in your Azure’s Table Storage. My idea was that if the AzureKit was easy enough … Continue reading →

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Programming languages on the rise: Cobol

Posted on November 13, 2010 by spgennard

Although the article/quote below is so true…. Programming languages on the rise: Cobol It may not be fair to call Cobol a niche language as it was once the dominant language in the enterprise. Grace Murray Hopper, famous for finding … Continue reading →

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Visual COBOL 2010 R3

Posted on September 22, 2010 by spgennard

For the last couple of months I have been working on next release which is cunningly name: Visual COBOL 2010 R3 Which is surprising since the previous was called Visual COBOL 2010 R2. If you are using any of products … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch

Posted on August 4, 2010 by spgennard

When I first started working on COBOL I was told that COBOL was a business oriented language that even managers could use 😉 It looks like Microsoft are wanting to do something similar in a modern manor using Visual Studio … 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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Life under the dust cloud

Posted on April 18, 2010 by spgennard

The week before last I attended Microsoft TechEd here in India, which was a great success. I especially liked my boss “The COBOLATOR“, who did a great talk about his experiences with Microsoft and his views on using COBOL. This … Continue reading →

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