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Tutorials on COBOL in the Visual Studio IDE

There are a number of tutorials that guide you through creating COBOL applications of various sorts using the Visual Studio IDE. Some of them use the demonstration programs supplied with this product. The source files of the demonstrations are installed in subfolders under %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Micro Focus\Studio Enterprise Edition x.x\Examples\Visual Studio Integration by default.

The following tutorials are available:

Mainframe Subsystem Tutorials

Tutorial Shows you how to
Tutorial: CICS Create a CICS project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the CICS application to the server and debug in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: Extending CICS Applications to Use Database Connector for Microsoft SQL Server Extend an existing CICS application to use Micro Focus’s Database Connectors™ for Microsoft® SQL Server. This enables your application to store and access information in a Microsoft SQL Server relational database management system (RDBMS).
Tutorial: JCL Create a JCL project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the JCL file to the server and debug in Visual Studio.
Tutorial: IMS Create an IMS project in Visual Studio. You associate the project with Enterprise Server, deploy the IMS files to the server and debug in Visual Studio.

Tutorials on Native COBOL

Tutorial Shows you how to
Tutorial: Developing a Simple COBOL Application Create a native COBOL application, using existing supplied source COBOL code.
Tutorial: Debugging Web Services Use Visual Studio to debug COBOL Web services deployed under Enterprise Server.

Tutorials on Managed COBOL

Tutorial Shows you how to
Tutorial: Developing .NET Managed COBOL Create a simple Windows application in .NET managed COBOL. You create a Windows form that says "Hello World".
Tutorial: Creating Windows Forms in COBOL Create a Windows form that interacts with an existing COBOL program.
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