Category Archives: Tips

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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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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Manual for British Gas RC Plus Thermostat

Posted on January 29, 2010 by spgennard

I recently tried to find our manual for our “British Gas RC Plus Termostat” on the internet as we have lost our original manual. Anyway, after some research, I found they British Gas just re-badged them from Drayton Digistat and … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition

Posted on January 27, 2010 by spgennard

Microsoft have just updated the “Application Architecture”.  I can’t say I have read it from cover to cover but it is being downloaded to my ebook reader… Microsoft Application Architecture Guide, 2nd Edition The guide helps you to: Understand the … 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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MacBook keyboard pains and VirtualBox/VMWare

Posted on January 9, 2010 by spgennard

As a MacBook user who has used Virtualisation on the mac for sometime now but only usually with Linux based OS, I was forced to use it with Windows recently and I quickly found out how badly it handles UK … Continue reading →

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Converting .chm’s for reading on the iriver story

Posted on December 30, 2009 by spgennard

One of the first things I wanted to read on my iriver story was the montly msdn subscription magazine which is available as a .chm. Which unfortunately the iriver story does not support, so I needed to convert it into … 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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Java process id via java.lang.management

Posted on December 5, 2009 by spgennard

While working on a project recently I need to find out the current process of the active running Java process (for tracing/auditing), however I never found a 100% perfect solution but did come across an acceptable solution to use the … Continue reading →

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