Upgrading from Net Express

Where to start?

If you've never used Eclipse before, see New to Eclipse.
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.

Visual COBOL provides an import wizard to help you convert your existing Net Express projects to Eclipse projects. For an overview of the process of importing Net Express projects into Eclipse see Converting Net Express projects to Eclipse projects.
See the Upgrading to Visual COBOL for Eclipse section for full details on upgrading your applications from Net Express to Visual COBOL, information about the differences between the two products, what technologies are not supported in Visual COBOL, and newer technologies in Visual COBOL that have replaced those in Net Express.
Also, see Backward Compatibility with Earlier Micro Focus Products.

What next?

You can continue to maintain your applications in Visual COBOL as before. You can also employ new technologies such as JVM COBOL and Web Services to modernize the applications over time. See the following resources for help on getting started with JVM COBOL programming: