You create a project for a COBOL application that will be deployed to .NET Core in essentially the same way that you create
a project for any other COBOL application; the only difference is in the project template that you use. For a COBOL application
that is to be deployed to .NET Core you must use one of the templates whose name ends with "(.NET Core)".
If you need to include SQL support in your project there are additional steps you need to perform. See
Configuring a .NET Core Project for SQL Support for more information.
Note: The project templates for .NET Core are not installed automatically with
Visual COBOL. If the .NET Core templates are not available you must install them before proceeding. See
To install missing features from the IDE for instructions.
To create a .NET Core project
- Click
.
- Type
.NET Core in the
Search field.
- Select
COBOL from the first dropdown menu (which contains
All languages by default).
.NET Core templates are listed.
- Select the template that you want to use.
Note: If there are no .NET Core templates you need to install Visual Studio's ".NET Core cross-platform development" component.
See the
.NET Core section of
Additional Software Requirements for more information.
- Click
Next.
- In the
Project name field, type a name for the project.
- In the
Location field, browse to the directory in which to store the project.
- Click
Create.
Note:
- The project is created to target .NET Core 3.1.
- If you will be deploying the project to an Azure .NET environment you need to modify the settings of the CALLFH and CALLSORT
directives in order to avoid dependency issues with the C runtime. See
Deploying to Azure .NET in
.NET Core Known Issues and Restrictions for more information.