Tag 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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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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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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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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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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Detecting the use Mono CLR dynamically

Posted on November 17, 2009 by spgennard

While developing something that could be used on Mono on Windows, Mono on Unix and on Windows with Microsoft’s CLR, I needed to be sensitive to the environment but didn’t want to conditionally compile my code different. So I put … Continue reading →

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Too Iterate or not…

Posted on November 10, 2009 by spgennard

Over the next couple of weeks, I will explore some of the reasons why I think managed environments are good for COBOL. So.. lets the show on the road… Setting up arrays/occurs items in COBOL and manipulating them can be … Continue reading →

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