Visual COBOL provides enhancements in the following areas:
- Call Hierarchy - support for the Call Hierarchy window has been enhanced and it now shows types and members across the entire solution.
- Debugging enhancements - includes enhanced support for the Autos windows for native and managed COBOL, support for querying EBCDIC data in managed code, and support for the standard visualizers for data items and groups in native COBOL.
- Expanded Copybook View - now supports Intellisense, collapsing and expanding of outlining regions, and code snippets.
- Find All References - you can now configure the scope of the Find All References command. The default behavior is to search for references in the current COBOL project and now, you can enable Find All References to search for matches in all managed COBOL projects that are part of your solution.
- Net Express Project Import wizard - now includes a number of usability enhancements.
- Run-time configuration - you can now use the application configuration file,
Application.config, in native COBOL projects to set all run-time tunables.
