Overview of modernizing dialog system applications
Dialog System Runtime for Visual COBOL, part of the Compatibility AddPack for Visual COBOL, enables you to modernize Dialog System applications within Visual COBOLfor Visual Studio 2012 and to run them under COBOL Server.
Dialog System information and restrictions
The Dialog System Runtime for Visual COBOL, part of the Compatibility AddPack for Visual COBOL, comprises the Dialog System run-time components, Dialog System Painter and a subset of the development components.
Migrating a Dialog System Application to Visual COBOL
To migrate an application, you start by opening a Net Express project in Visual COBOL. This invokes the Visual Studio Conversion Wizard that converts the project into aVisual COBOL solution. When you have migrated a Dialog System application into Visual COBOL, you can update and maintain it from Visual COBOL.
Modernizing a Dialog System Application
When you are ready to modernize the application, you can do so gradually, using the interoperability techniques to keep the old and new code (the native and managed code) working together.
