Hi, when trying to creating any type of Cobol project in Visual Studio using Visual COBOL Personal edition (installed yesterday) I just get the error above. If anyone can advise me of a solution for this it would be much appreciated. Thanks.

Hi Paul,

This error seems to be related to downloading or updating software or a problem with Windows Defender. It doesn't make much sense in this context.
Can you create a C# project ok or do you get the same error?

Can you open up one of the COBOL projects in the Samples browser? Navigate the Windows Start menu to the Visual COBOL folder and run Samples. Try opening up a simple project like tictac. Do you get the same error?

Thanks

Also, which Visual Studio version are you using? You can get the complete version number by looking in Help-->About Visual Studio.

You might also check to ensure that the Visual COBOL extension is installed into Visual Studio. Please try the following:

MFVSIXINSTALL

To install Visual COBOL in all editions of the Visual Studio version that you target:

1. Locate MFVSIXInstall.exe in %ProgramFiles(x86)%\\Micro Focus\\Visual COBOL\\vsix, and in the VS16.0 subfolder.
2. Run MFVSIXInstall.exe.

   This starts the VSIX Installer utility that will install all the required components into the existing editions of the Visual Studio version that you target.

3. Click Modify in the VSIX Installer dialog box to start the installation.
4. Click Close when the installation is completed.