Tag 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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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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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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