Managed COBOL applications require COBOL Server to enable them to run. COBOL Server provides support for managed COBOL and also for native COBOL. The native COBOL support enables your application to interoperate with native COBOL.
Before you deploy your application, you must first install COBOL Server. This installs both the native and the managed support is installed. The installation process adds the managed code support files to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC), and installs some files into the COBOL Server directory.
You can deploy COBOL applications using a setup project, or you can copy the files manually. You can also deploy ASP.NET applications using the Publish Web Site tool in Visual Studio.