Using Visual Studio for PL/I Development

Enterprise Developer enables you to develop native COBOL applications as well as .NET managed code applications.

You use the Microsoft Visual Studio IDE to develop, build and debug your applications. You can then deploy and further debug the application under the run-time system provided by Enterprise Server.

You use the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) to develop, build and debug PL/I applications. The IDE provides all the functionality to manage projects and debug applications. It includes:

• Templates for creating PL/I projects such as a console application or a Mainframe Subsystem Application.
• Colorization of the PL/I language when editing and debugging
• Background parsing of PL/I
• Information provided when hovering over PL/I variables
• Support for debugging using the Code Watch debugger

The programs compile to .exe, .dll, .int or .gnt and they execute under the Enterprise Server.