Hey there,

I'm currently stuck at the Setup of Visual COBOL, I ran the vcbt_80.exe and finished the setup, but now I kinda don't understand how to continue, the Program Files only include a Licensing and Visual COBOL Build Tools folder.

I cannot choose COBOL as a language on VS and cannot use it in VSCode. What do I do after the Installation? 

Thank you in advance!

Hey there,

I'm currently stuck at the Setup of Visual COBOL, I ran the vcbt_80.exe and finished the setup, but now I kinda don't understand how to continue, the Program Files only include a Licensing and Visual COBOL Build Tools folder.

I cannot choose COBOL as a language on VS and cannot use it in VSCode. What do I do after the Installation? 

Thank you in advance!

If you want to use Visual COBOL in Visual Studio you will need to install Visual COBOL for Visual Studio, not the Visual COBOL Build Tools, as the Build Tools installer does not include the integration with the Visual Studio IDE.

If you want to use the Build Tools with Visual Studio Code you need to install the Micro Focus COBOL extension from the marketplace https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/vscode as spgennard suggested either by using the command line he mentioned, or from the Extensions view. Specifying publisher:"micro focus" will show all of the Micro Focus extensions and you can select "Micro Focus COBOL" to install it.  

The problem is I cannot Install the executable since it says "I already have Visual COBOL installed, I need to Uninstall it, although the installation folder only shows the Build tools