Re: Cobol for Visual sutdio

Nondisclosure007 wrote:
Hi Bill!

Do you have a link to the Micro Focus stuff (specifically the COBOL
package that integrates w/ VS)?

THANKS!


Bill no doubt will give you more information, but out of curiosity I looked :-

http://www.microfocus.com/products/netexpresswithnet/index.asp

This lists (sidebar) two versions of Net Express -

1. Net Express V 5.1 'plain' - Procedural and OO
2. Net Express V 5.1 'dotNet' - Procedural and OO with dotNet -
- which is the one you are after. How well that documentation describes the link to Visual Studio, I don't know. See if you can get a link from M/F to the on-line books for #2.

Here's a link to Version 5.1 'plain' online books - but from the main index, which is very comprehensive, I didn't see any reference to dotNet or Visual Studio :-

http://supportline.microfocus.com/documentation/books/nx51ws01/nx51indx.htm

Although I 'stood still' at V 3.1, I used V5.0 and will now use V5.1 because it is well documented - even though I have to bear in mind some features in the later versions are not applicable to me.

Either Fujitsu or M/F Net Express - neither comes cheaply. You should query costs : Initial price, Technical Support, updates/fixpacks, restrictions on use, certain features which they want more money for etc. You would be well advised, having specified what your requirement is, to get a salesman to put it down in writing, i.e. the cost to cover your requirement - if he/she balks - then that should tell you something !

I didn't follow through on the M/F link but when googling found a reference to a freebie download of the latest Net Express. (I think it will be referred to as 'University Edition' ). You can use it for practicing but you are limited to a figure of some 22,000 lines for source. Can't recall if that was per program or an application - still even at an individual program level, start adding in some of the M/F copyfiles and you get a whole chunk in your source.

Jimmy Calgary AB
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