Category Archives: COBOL

Visual COBOL @ Microsoft Teched

Posted on March 29, 2010 by spgennard

The last couple of weeks have been very busy and it has unfortunately affected the amount of blog entries I have done but the good news I have plenty of new material.. So, what’s my excuse.. Well we have been … Continue reading →

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Reflection and COBOL

Posted on February 13, 2010 by spgennard

For the last couple of months I have working on Visual Studio 2010 and this include Microsoft CLR v4 and I was recently asked how to write a test that determines at runtime which CLR is being used and what … Continue reading →

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Scripting Languages and COBOL

Posted on January 19, 2010 by spgennard

The use of scripting languages with other languages has increased over the last couple of years, from a simple case of interoperability, reuse of scripting code to allowing your code to customised via the user of external scripts. All of … Continue reading →

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12 Tips for using Micro Focus COBOL

Posted on December 22, 2009 by spgennard

12 Tips for using Micro Focus COBOL As it is close to Christmas and I wanted to do something with 12 in the title, I’ve thrown together some useful if not un-ordered list of 12 things tips using Micro Focus … Continue reading →

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A Comparison Of .Net COBOL, Visual Basic and C#

Posted on December 15, 2009 by spgennard

Today my collegues Robert and Alex have finally 🙂 decided to publish a document that compares Visual Basic, C# and COBOL for .Net under The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Rather than doing a cut-paste job, here is a quote … Continue reading →

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Free compiler for non-commercial use.

Posted on December 8, 2009 by spgennard

If you are interested in trying out some of my examples with a modern COBOL compiler.. let me give you a quote from a friend. From: Twitter “

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Factory Method Pattern in COBOL

Posted on December 7, 2009 by spgennard

Continuing my series on design patterns for the COBOL, the next one on my list is the “Factory method” pattern. The pattern is useful, as it helps you hide the real implementation/creation mechanism of your classes. I you are fond … Continue reading →

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Design Patterns and COBOL

Posted on November 29, 2009 by spgennard

As part of my working life I happy to say I use COBOL and for better or worse it is here to stay. With this in mind it annoys me I here/see saying things such as COBOL is a old … Continue reading →

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Type Safety and COBOL

Posted on November 24, 2009 by spgennard

Having read a recent bog about COBOL and type-safety, I though I would jot down some comments. ANS85 COBOL is naturally is type-unsafe due as every data item being part of one memory region (or storage area), because of this … Continue reading →

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Base Class Library, Arrays, Queues and Stacks

Posted on November 19, 2009 by spgennard

Continuing the series of blogs about COBOL and the .Net base class library… The .Net base class library has a wealth classes and an huge of amount of methods/properties. The .Net base class library has a key handy namespace that … Continue reading →

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