There are a number of tutorials that guide you through creating COBOL applications of various sorts using the Visual Studio IDE. The source files for the tutorials are the samples installed in subfolders of the %PUBLIC%\Documents\Micro Focus\Visual COBOL\Samples folder by default.
The following tutorials are available:
| Tutorial | Shows you how to |
|---|---|
| Tutorial: Creating a Native COBOL Application | Create a native COBOL application and debug using various debugging features. |
| Tutorial: Debugging COBOL Applications Remotely | Edit and compile a native COBOL application locally. Copy the application files to a remote Windows machine, prepare for debugging and debug the application remotely. |
| Tutorial: Running Unit Tests in the IDE | Create a unit test project, then within it create a test case that directly links to one of the sample applications supplied with Visual COBOL. This enables you to directly test your application source code. |
| Tutorial: Interface Mapping Toolkit | Define a Java/EJB service interface to access a COBOL application, deploy it to Enterprise Server, generate and run a client to access the application. |
| Tutorial: Data File Tools | View a variable length sequential file formatted and unformatted, and then create and edit an indexed file. |
| Tutorial: Classic Data File Tools | Convert a data file to a variable length indexed sequential file and view in various formats using Data File Editor. |
| Tutorial: Using the Callable File Handler | Use the Callable File Handler to perform a number of common file handling operations. |
| Tutorial | Shows you how to |
|---|---|
| Tutorial: Developing .NET COBOL | Create a simple Windows application in .NET COBOL. You create a Windows form that says "Hello World". |
| Tutorial: Creating Windows Forms in COBOL | Create a Windows form that interacts with an existing COBOL program. |
| Tutorial: Creating Web Forms in COBOL | Create a Web page that interacts with an existing COBOL program. |
| Tutorial: Developing Web Application Projects | Create a Web Application Project that interacts with an existing COBOL program. |
| Tutorial: Creating and Accessing WCF COBOL Services | Create a WCF Service in COBOL and access it from a client application.
Note: To complete this tutorial, you need to use a more advanced edition of Visual Studio such as Professional, Enterprise or Community Edition. |
| Tutorial: Publishing Hello COBOL World to the Cloud | Create a COBOL cloud service and then deploy and run it under Windows Azure. |
| Tutorials: OpenESQL Assistant | Create a COBOL program using OpenESQL Assistant to generate an SQL query. |
| Tutorials: SQL Server COBOL Stored Procedures | Create a SQL CLR stored procedure for OpenESQL |