Micro Focus released VisualCOBOL R4 earlier this year and it has turned out to be an awesome addition to Visual Studio 2010. The development teams have done a great job in delivering a very usable product. To help you learn about VisualCOBOL and COBOL.NET in a managed environment we'd lik...
In the next post I'll follow up with how we can perform this kind of update inside a database transaction, taking a look at a couple ways we can do it, and I'll post a complete application that works against the Northwind database. UPDATE: Here's the follow up. Visual Studio ...
(and no online storage); seen the rise of programming languages such as COBOL on mainframes, and then minicomputers such as the IBM PC; experienced changes in UI technology such as the GUI; watched the laptop become the standard computer of choice; witnessed the “birth” of t...
Once the server knows what name the client is looking for (and there might not be one, in which case the local host name is used), it can provide a certificate with a matching Subject Name. This sample code does that by default, but if no matching certificate is found, it will use ...
with the contents of the library or assembly selected in the left pane. You can customize the details view to display other types of information, for example, a COBOL, RPG, or IDL source code. You can display Help topics about the individual user interface controls by highlighting a control...
If you already worked on a windowed win32 application in Visual Studio, then you must be familiar with the .rc files and maybe with the .res files that are generated from .rc files. The .rc file in your project is a text file that defines different kind of resources: cursors, icons,...
Thing is, I like how the technology has progressed from WinForms to WPF to UWP to MAUI; the approach to coding visual design has improved immensely (well actually, this is a bit of a throwback to Cobol screen design…). Can I work without a designer? Yes...