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Upgrading from Studio Enterprise Edition

Studio Enterprise Edition comes in two variants - Studio Enterprise Edition (Windows) and Studio Enterprise Edition (UNIX). These are the paths to upgrade your applications created with them:

Studio Enterprise Edition (Windows) used Visual Studio 2008. You upgrade your projects created with it to Visual COBOL for Visual Studio.
Studio Enterprise Edition (UNIX) was used to create applications for Linux and UNIX. You need to use Micro Focus Visual COBOL for Eclipse to upgrade such applications - see its product help available from the Micro Focus Infocenter.

Where to start?

If you've never used Microsoft's Visual Studio before, see New to Visual Studio.
See Developing Applications for more information about creating applications.

Ready to import your existing applications?

Once you are familiar with the IDE, you can import your existing code into Visual COBOL:

See Upgrading from Studio Enterprise Edition for an explanation of what you need to install and an overview of the process of upgrading existing applications.
Also, see Backward Compatibility with Earlier Micro Focus Products.

What next?

Visual COBOL is a powerful development environment with a variety of features and tools suited to help you get on with your programming effectively and efficiently.

See the tutorials for examples of applications you can create with Visual COBOL.
Find out more about the various ways you can debug applications.