Re: Cobol for Visual sutdio



"James J. Gavan" <jgavandeletethis@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pete Dashwood wrote:
"Michael Wojcik" <mwojcik@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Pete Dashwood wrote:
I think you did a very good job. I certainly learned somethng about where
MF COBOL for .NET is at.

I'd still like someone with MF access to comment on support for COM (not
necessarily COM+; I'd agree that WCF looks like the way to go on
that...).

I dunno, not having looked at COM. Perhaps Michael may be able to offer a
small M/F sample program.

I think you threw out a suggestion that I or somebody else should perhaps
give it a go. Well, yes.... I was thinking, rather than sit idle and going
potty, (going 'potty', not going to the 'potty' or the Great White
Telephone that people use to upchuck after too much booze :-).......
Perhaps I'd take a look at this Web stuff. Mind you, and I knew in advance
when in that COBDATA message you 'pleaded the Fifth' or 'you hadn't been
Miranda-ized' - i.e. "Jimmy, you don't know how difficult the topic
is....". I had guessed that without even looking - that's not me being a
Smart Alec, but just a gut feeling.

Web programming, like all programming, is difficult until you master it.

But that's no reason not to attempt it.

Good luck with your endeavour.

What I was looking for was someone with a Micro Focus compiler who could
simply take Robert's original code and convert it to a COM server using MF,
just as I did using Fujitsu. There's no need for web wrapping or anything
else really. It would then be possible to compare how Fujitsu deals with COM
and how MF does it. It took me a couple of hours, but it didn't work after
being converted. Robert took it back and used his original code to figure
out that initializations were failing. It was because each of the previously
nested programs were now methods. Nested programs maintain their state
between calls; object methods do not. They re-initialize each time they are
invoked.We moved the fields that were getting initialized when they
shouldn't into Object storage (common or global) and everything worked.

The nearest I got was reading Will's SECOND BOOK which described HTML,
XML, God knows what other ?MLs - since, I've completely forgotten the
definitions and will have to start all over again. However, so far as you
are concerned with a demo from me, I'd reckon we are talking at least
three months away, and of course it wont be dotNet.

It would be if you used ASP.NET. If you're starting from scratch you might
as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb... :-) You don't HAVE to use C#
code-behinds and Master Pages. You could use JavaScript instead.

Whatever you decide will be a rich (and ultimately satisfying) learning
experience.

I can recommend W3C Schools... I keep them bookmarked and refer to them for
syntax sometimes. Here's a link:
http://www.w3schools.com/

Pete.
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"I used to write COBOL...now I can do anything."


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