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New to Visual Studio

Enterprise Developer uses a proven industry Integrated Development Environment that provides advanced features for COBOL editing and debugging for application developers. Continuous background compilation, auto complete, code analysis, and code search are just a few of the many developer tools available to streamline application delivery. You can utilize REST and JSON to build new web services. You can create new user interfaces using Win Forms or WPF and also combine COBOL with C#, VB, and other .NET languages-all within one IDE.

Where to start?

If you've never used Visual Studio before, this product help includes the following resources to help you get started:

An Introduction to Application Development Using Visual Studio that gives a description of the Visual Studio interface and lists some of the available functionality.
A tutorial, Create Your First Hello COBOL World application, that demonstrates how you create a Visual Studio project for a COBOL program and demonstrates the basic features of the IDE.
A tutorial, Configure the Hello COBOL World application, that demonstrates how you can configure a project and resolve some build issues.
A tutorial, Debug the Hello COBOL World application, that demonstrates how debugging works in Visual Studio.

What next?

Enterprise Developer is a powerful development environment with a variety of features and tools suited to help you get on with your programming effectively and efficiently.

See the tutorials for examples of applications you can create with Enterprise Developer.
Check the Developing Applications section for more information about creating applications.
Find out more about the various ways you can debug applications.
Watch the Micro Focus YouTube training videos.