Microsoft Azure

Visual COBOL for Visual Studio now enables you to create, build, debug, run, and package COBOL applications for use with Windows Azure. It provides:

• Project template for a COBOL cloud service. This creates a solution containing a project for the cloud service and projects for the web and worker roles you specify.
• Demonstration projects, showing a web and worker role in COBOL, with the business logic remaining in unchanged COBOL programs.
• Help. This includes a tutorial that shows how to create a simple cloud service for COBOL and how to deploy and run the service as an off-premises Microsoft Azure instance.

This functionality was previously available as an AddPack but is now integrated into Visual COBOL.