We provide a number of demonstration programs designed to help you to better understand some of the concepts involved when working with COBOL projects in Visual Studio.
The demonstration programs are installed in subfolders under
%PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL\Samples by default.
You can access the demonstrations with the help of Samples Browser - click
Start > All Programs > Micro Focus Visual COBOL > Samples.
Note: To start the Samples Browser on Windows 8, Windows 10, or Windows Server 2012, go to the Start screen and click the
Samples tile.
To view the demonstrations for managed code, select
Show managed only from the list in the upper left corner of Samples Browser.
The following demonstrations are supplied:
- Azure
- Includes demonstrations of how to create COBOL Azure services.
- COBOL Book
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- C# WinBook
- Demonstrates how C# can interoperate with managed COBOL. The SmartLinkage functionality enables you to expose COBOL group items as managed types so that other managed languages can interoperate with them.
- Sandcastle Integration
- Demonstrates how to integrate Microsoft's Sandcastle Help File Builder utility in the
Visual COBOL build process in order to generate a CHM help file from the XML documentation comments in your managed source code. This sample requires more advanced edition of Visual Studio such as
Professional, Enterprise or Community Edition. Microsoft's Sandcastle Help File Builder must be installed - download it from the Microsoft Download Center.
- WCF Book Service and Client
- Demonstrates how to create a WCF service and a COBOL client that accesses the service.
The WCF project types are not available in Microsoft's Visual Studio Shell. To use this sample, you need to use a more advanced of Visual Studio such as
Professional, Enterprise or Community Edition.
- Web Application Book
- A Web Application project which contains a Web form. The form provides a .NET interface to an existing COBOL program. The BookClass project provides a proxy COBOL program that calls the existing COBOL Book program.
- Win Book
- Shows how to create a Windows form to provide a .NET interface to an existing COBOL program. The BookClass project provides a proxy COBOL program that calls the existing COBOL Book program.
- WPF Book
- Demonstrates the use of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
- COBOL for .NET
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- Core.Net
- Core.NET introduces some of the standard features of the .NET Framework you need to be aware of, and any new COBOL syntax in order to support these features.
- All other samples for COBOL for .NET
- Each of the demonstrations shows how to use the corresponding COBOL feature within the .NET framework.
- Convert ACU and RM to MF
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- ACU to MF Data Conversion
- The solution builds the ACU2MFDataMigration.exe - a utility that converts an ACU Vision indexed file or directory of files to Micro Focus indexed files. You can use executable as delivered, or modify and rebuild the source code as desired.
- RM to MF Data Conversion
- The solution builds to RMMFDataMigration.exe and RM2MFconvert.dll which enable you to convert an RM/COBOL indexed file or directory of files to Micro Focus indexed files. You can use the executables as delivered, or modify and rebuild the source code as desired.
- Games
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- COBOL Blitz
- Demonstrates the use of Windows forms, enumeration types, inheritance, and of sounds and graphics.
- COBOLDoKu
- Demonstrates Windows Forms using a .NET user control.
- COBOL Tic-Tac-Toe
- Demonstrates how to use WPF from aVisual COBOL application.
- Help Generation
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- Sandcastle Integration
- Demonstrates how to integrate the Microsoft Sandcastle utility in the build process and generate a CHM help file from the XML documentation comments in your managed source code. Before running this demonstration you must have Sandcastle installed. Download the utility from the Microsoft Download Center.
- SQL
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- SQL (Managed OESQL) - Getting Started
- Demonstrates how to use static SQL with OpenESQL under ADO.NET, performing a variety of SQL operations. It also demonstrates the use of different styles of CONNECT statement.
- SQL (Managed OESQL) - Connected Demo
- Fills a DataSet from a data source, modifies the DataSet and then synchronizes the changes in the DataSet with the data source. The modified contents of the DataSet are displayed in the Output Window. To execute this demonstration, you must first download and install the SQL Server Northwind database from the Microsoft Web site,
http://www.microsoft.com. Once there, enter the following search criteria to locate the appropriate download page:
northwind pubs database download
- SQL (Managed OESQL) - Cursor Demo
- Demonstrates how to mix OpenESQL with direct calls to ADO.NET.
- SQL (Managed OESQL) - Disconnected Demo
- Manipulates offline data in a DataSet. The results of the data manipulation are displayed in the Output Window.
- SQL (Managed OESQL) - LOB Demo
- Demonstrates how ADO.NET can be used in mixed language projects to insert and select large objects (LOBs). LobDemo shows OpenESQL working with LOB columns in a SQL Server table.
- SQL (Managed OESQL) - OrderStatus Demo
- Demonstrates how ADO.NET can be used in mixed language projects, and uses COBOL and C#.
- SQL (Managed OESQL) - Web Application Book
- Includes a COBOL Web Application Project which contains a Web form. The form calls an intermediary program, SqlBookWrapper.cbl, which maps .NET data types onto COBOL data types. The intermediary program then calls the existing COBOL program, sqlbook.cbl, to perform the business logic.
- SQL (Managed OESQL) - WPF Book
- Includes a Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) interface written in managed COBOL that interacts with an existing COBOL program. The form calls an intermediary program, SqlBookWrapper.cbl, which maps .NET data types onto COBOL data types. The intermediary program then calls the existing COBOL program, sqlbook.cbl, to perform the business logic.
- SQL (DB2 ECM) - Connect Demo
- Shows the syntax variants supported by IBM DB2 LUW for connecting to and disconnecting from a DB2 database using Type 1 CONNECTs.
- SQL (DB2 ECM) - Dynamic Demo
- A simple example of using dynamic SQL with IBM DB2 LUW, performing a variety of SQL operations. If this program was written as a static SQL program, it would have to be broken apart into two programs, since static SQL require the table to already exist or a compile error will result.
- SQL (DB2 ECM) - LOB Demo
- Illustrates the use of LOB LOCATOR and VALUES functions to retrieve Lob data from DB2 LUW.
- SQL (DB2 ECM) - Select Demo
- A simple example of using both singleton SELECT and cursor-based FETCH statements with IBM DB2 LUW.
- SQL (DB2 ECM) - Whenever Demo
- Illustrates the use of EXEC SQL WHENEVER statements for error handling, and using the DB2(MSGAREA) compiler directive to specify a COBOL variable for retrieving error message text larger than the 70 bytes provided in SQLERRMC.
- SQLCLR
- You need to run the following samples with administrator's rights:
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- SQLCLR - EmailAddress Type
- Shows how to create a Microsoft SQL Server User Defined Type.
- SQLCLR - HelloWorld
- Shows how to create a simple Microsoft SQL Server stored procedure.
- SQLCLR - RecordSet Procedure
- Shows how to create a simple Microsoft SQL Server stored procedure that returns a row.
- SQLCLR - RegEx User Functions
- Shows how to create a simple Microsoft SQL Server stored function and how it can be used to perform field validation.
- SQLCLR - TableValue Functions
- Shows how to create a Microsoft SQL Server table value function and how it can be used to return multiple rows.
- Web Applications
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- MultiRunUnits
- Demonstrates why and how procedural COBOL is compiled and invoked in a multiple user environment. The application is an ASP.NET Web Service and you invoke it through the ASP.NET Development Server.
- Web Application Book
- A Web Application project which contains a Web form. The form provides a .NET interface to an existing COBOL program. The BookClass project provides a proxy COBOL program that calls the existing COBOL Book program.
- Windows Communication Foundation
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Note: The WCF project types are not available in Microsoft's Visual Studio Shell. To complete this tutorial, you need to use a more advanced edition of Visual Studio such as
Professional, Enterprise or Community Edition.
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- Syndication Service Library Custom Items
- Shows how to create custom syndication feeds using WCF components.
- Syndication Service Library Example
- Shows how to use WCF components to create a custom syndication feed that uses an existing feed as its data source.
- Airport Demo (Managed)
- Demonstrates the use of COBOL WCF REST services.
- WCF Book Service and Client
- Demonstrates how to create a WCF service and a COBOL client that accesses the service.
- WCF Read from a File
- Shows how to use WCF services.
- Web WCF Service
- Demonstrates the use of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services. To run this demonstration you need to have Microsoft’s Visual Web Developer 2010 installed.
- Windows Forms
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- C# WinBook
- Demonstrates how to call COBOL from a C# application.
- COBOL Blitz
- Demonstrates the use of Windows forms, enumeration types, inheritance, and of sounds and graphics.
- COBOLDoKu
- Demonstrates Windows Forms using a .NET user control.
- LoginFormApplication
- This demonstration is a Visual Studio solution containing a login form created from the Login Form template. It contains classes that check whether the entered user name and password are correct.
- Samples Browser
- Shows a list of the samples installed with your COBOL development system. You can select a sample from the list and view its readme. Click one of the available links to open the sample in Visual Studio, open the directory that stores the sample's files or open its readme.
- Win Book
- Shows how to create a Windows form to provide a .NET interface to an existing COBOL program. The BookClass project provides a proxy COBOL program that calls the existing COBOL Book program.
- Win Hello
- Shows how to use Windows Forms to say "Hello World".
- Windows Presentation Foundation
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- COBOL TicTacToe
- Demonstrates how to use WPF from aVisual COBOL application.
- Trackball Demo
- Demonstrates 3D rendering using WPF components.
- WPF Book
- Demonstrates the use of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
- Uncategorized Samples
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- Interfacing With Std COBOL
- Demonstrates how to use compatible types to interface with standard COBOL, and in particular how to manipulate group items and occurs structures.
- Multithreading
- Introduces some key aspects of Multithreaded programming using COBOL syntax and the run-time threading APIs.
- Platform Invoke
- Demonstrates that COBOL can be used to read and write XML documents and shows the use of the treeview and property grid Windows Forms objects.
- \COBOL for .NET
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\Core.Net
- Core.NET introduces some of the standard features of the .NET Framework you need to be aware of, and any new COBOL syntax in order to support these features.
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All other subdirectories under \COBOL for .NET
- Each of the demonstrations shows how to use the corresponding COBOL feature within the .NET framework.
- \Forms
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\CobolDoKu
- Demonstrates Windows Forms using a .NET user control.
- \BookDemoWebApplication
- A Web Application project which contains a Web form. The form provides a .NET interface to an existing COBOL program. The BookClass project provides a proxy COBOL program that calls the existing COBOL Book program.
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\BookWrapper
- A managed wrapper (written in COBOL .NET), over the Legacy Book library. The WinBook program uses the BookWrapper library to read and write data from the
bookfile.dat.
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\LegacyBook
- A native COBOL library which needs data records from a data (.dat) file.
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\LoginFormApplication
- This demonstration is a Visual Studio solution containing a login form created from the Login Form template. It contains classes that check whether the entered user name and password are correct.
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\WebBook
- Shows how to create a Web Forms page to provide a .NET interface to an existing COBOL program. The BookClass project provides a proxy COBOL program that calls the existing COBOL Book program.
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\WebHello
- Shows how to use Web Forms to say "Hello World".
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\Winbook
- Shows how to create a Windows form to provide a .NET interface to an existing COBOL program. The BookClass project provides a proxy COBOL program that calls the existing COBOL Book program.
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\WinHello
- Shows how to use Windows Forms to say "Hello World".
- \InterfacingWithStdCOBOL
- Demonstrates how to use compatible types to interface with standard COBOL, and in particular how to manipulate group items and occurs structures.
- \MultiRunUnits
- Demonstrates why and how procedural COBOL is compiled and invoked in a multiple user environment. The application is an ASP.NET Web Service and you invoke it through the ASP.NET Development Server.
- \Multithreading
- Introduces some key aspects of Multithreaded programming using COBOL syntax and the run-time threading APIs.
- \ConnectedDemo
- Fills a DataSet from a data source, modifies the DataSet and then synchronizes the changes in the DataSet with the data source. The modified contents of the DataSet are displayed in the Output Window. To execute this demonstration, you must first download and install the SQL Server Northwind database from the Microsoft Web site,
http://www.microsoft.com. Once there, enter the following search criteria to locate the appropriate download page:
northwind pubs database download
- \CursorDemo
- Demonstrates how to mix OpenESQL with direct calls to ADO.NET.
- \DisconnectedDemo
- Manipulates offline data in a DataSet. The results of the data manipulation are displayed in the Output Window.
- \LobDemo
- Demonstrates how ADO.NET can be used in mixed language projects to insert and select large objects (LOBs). LobDemo shows OpenESQL working with LOB columns in a SQL Server table.
- \OrderStatusDemo
- Demonstrates how ADO.NET can be used in mixed language projects, and uses COBOL and C#.
- \ConnectedDemo
- Fills a DataSet from a data source, modifies the DataSet and then synchronizes the changes in the DataSet with the data source. The modified contents of the DataSet are displayed in the Output Window. To execute this demonstration, you must first download and install the SQL Server Northwind database from the Microsoft Web site,
http://www.microsoft.com. Once there, enter the following search criteria to locate the appropriate download page:
northwind pubs database download
- \CursorDemo
- Demonstrates how to mix OpenESQL with direct calls to ADO.NET.
- \DisconnectedDemo
- Manipulates offline data in a DataSet. The results of the data manipulation are displayed in the Output Window.
- \LobDemo
- Demonstrates how ADO.NET can be used in mixed language projects to insert and select large objects (LOBs). LobDemo shows OpenESQL working with LOB columns in a SQL Server table.
- \OrderStatusDemo
- Demonstrates how ADO.NET can be used in mixed language projects, and uses COBOL and C#.
- \Samples Browser
- Shows a list of the samples installed with your COBOL development system. You can select a sample from the list and view its readme. Click one of the available links to open the sample in Visual Studio, open the directory that stores the sample's files or open its readme.
- \WCF
- Demonstrates the use of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services.
The WCF project types are not available in Microsoft's Visual Studio Shell. To use this sample, you need to use a more advanced edition of Visual Studio such as
Professional, Enterprise or Community Edition.
- Airport Demo (Managed)
- Demonstrates how to create a COBOL WCF REST service and then a client application that consumes that service.
The WCF project types are not available in Microsoft's Visual Studio Shell. To use this sample, you need to use a more advanced edition of Visual Studio such as
Professional, Enterprise or Community Edition.
- \WPF
- Demonstrates the use of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF).
- \XMLWinForm
- Demonstrates that COBOL can be used to read and write XML documents and demonstrates the use of the treeview and property grid Windows Forms objects.
- \pinvoke
- Demonstrates that COBOL can be used to read and write XML documents and shows the use of the treeview and property grid Windows Forms objects.
