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In Visual Studio 2013 (Version 12.0.40629.00 Update 5) editor, with [Micro Focus COBOL] Tabs set to 4 & 4 and Insert spaces on .... ... you can highlight a block of code (that let's say starts in column 12) and hit the tab key to indent it, and it will move it to column 16 ... which is the expected / desired result. However, if you hold down on shift and hit the tab key to Unindent it, it moves it back to position 13, not back to the expected / desired position 12. It appears that this only happens if the "block" consists of more than one line.  If it is just one line, it handles it correctly. Thanks.

Hello!! Visual cobol shows me this error when I click PLAY to see what I have programmed. I would appreciate some help.. I add an image capture under this text, thanks a lot!! #debugvisualcoboltarget

There are 2 new Visual COBOL for Eclipse videos available on YouTube, related to creating Web Services from new or existing COBOL programs. The first demonstrates how to create a SOAP Web Service, and the second does the same for a RESTful Web Service.   These have been added to the Micro Focus Support and Training channel on YouTube. Here are direct links to the new videos :   Using Visual COBOL for Eclipse to Create SOAP Web Services   Using Visual COBOL for Eclipse to Create REST Web Services#VisualCOBOL#REST#Eclipse#SOAP#webservice

Hi when i build my source code (in attach) then build was failed: COBCH0002S error at line 281: i think my code is right My flow code:       read data file ORDERS.dat then insert all records into ORDERS table       read records in ORDERS table, check record if error then write that record to ORDER_ERROR.dat My ORDERS table structure: DATABASE.txt I also attached ORDERS.dat and project source code. Thanks for your support.

Hi ,  What are the compiler directives to create a .dll for the single program ? ( My code is a managed code , also unlike Native code we donot have option to create multiple executable in Managed code ) I could set gnt and int from Tools-->Opions-->Micro Focus-->Directives-->Single file compile. Also How do i set this from Visual Cobol Command prompt if i have to do a Bulk Compilation of programs. Regards, Zoeb

In Visual Studio 2013, Visual COBOL 2.2. ... When you have Managed WinForms Program A invoking Managed WinForms Program B, and both are in variable source format as shown by the VS editor when editing each individually... and you are running in Debugging mode... when A invokes B and you are transitioned over to B... it appears in the old fixed Source format, with the right margin area greyed out... Thanks.

The following code generated the CRLF and FFLF correctly as 2 bytes. However the TAB also generated 2 bytes  with the first byte being set to <null>... Question is how do I generate a single byte using the technique below or is there another way ? 78 CRLF              value x"0D0A". 78 FFLF               value x"0C0A". 78 TAB                  value x"09". Thanks Allen  

Is there a way to set specific tabs is Visual Cobol?  Such as at 7, 8, 12, and 72.  Under Tools/Options/Text editor/Micro focus cobol, the tabs button does not seem to give choices like that.

Hi All ,  Does Unit Test Framework only works for Native Cobol codes ? I tried using mfurun for Managed COBOL codes but i am unable to execute the scripts. What are the other limitations ? Can i used on Character based screens ?

Hello, I have a datagrid with a sub-datagrid where the data of the sub-datagrid are displayed when I click on one of the main lines datagrid (Figure 1).When I change (for example) the type of document to consult, the application has to re-record the data from datagrid and sub-datagrid.Then gives the error "NullReferenceException was unhandled". I'm using the same instructions I use with a simple datagrid and can not correct the error. Again I ask your help. Figure 1 Figure 2 Best Regards Alberto Ferraz

Hello: I have an event in datagrid (method-id dgridRubricas_MouseDoubleClick) that works perfectly when I click with the mouse in a cell. It turns out that when I click the mouse on the scroll bar to move down to the remaining data visualization, and make very fast, is considered a MouseDoubleClick and gives the following error "Null Reference Exception was unhandled". What is the solucção to prevent this situation? Best Regards Albeto Ferraz

I copied a solution with a .Net WPF project from one system to another. Now I get the following errors on the receiving system: COBCH0002 : Undefined ECM error. Inform Technical Support. Error code 12. COBCH0038 : Paragraph or phrase repeated illegally The errors points to the ‘getter’ keyword within several properties. property-id KalkNr binary-long. getter. set property-value to W-KalkNr setter. set W-KalkNr to property-value invoke self::NotifyPropertyChanged("KalkNr") end property. Both systems will have Visual Cobol 2.3 Update 1 installed, the first system with Visual Studio 2013 and the receiving one with Visual Studio 2012. I’m waiting for an answer from Micro Focus Technical Support. Regards Werner Lanter

Hi, Getting errors during compile time. The same code worked in Net Express 5.1 but having issues in Visual Cobol 2.3 Error 6 COBCH0302 : IF....ELSE or scope-delimiter mismatch COBES0112 : S-QNM-QUEUE-CODE-DB should not be defined with an OCCURS clause Anyone encountered similar issues? Thank for your help Ramesh

Hello, I have a managed WinForms app (Visual Studio 2013, Visual COBOL 2.2) with a TextBox (Multline = True and AcceptsReturn = True) and it is sized to allow entry of multiple lines of text, which may be entered using the Enter key.  I also have the same app except it is done in C#. As you know, using the Enter key will cause a Carriage Return Line Feed (hex oa0d aka \\r\\n) pair of characters (non-printable) to be embedded into textBox1::Text wherever the user has entered the Enter key, and this causes any following text to be visually put at the beginning of the next visual line, etc.  You CAN'T see these embedded non-printable characters with a watch on textBox1::Text in the debugger (although you can with C#, what a bummer!).  In any event, I then take the contents of textBox1::Text to a string and pass that string to a third-party app (MS Word, in fact).  When I get the string back from Word, it has been stripped of the Line F

I have made 2 console projects in Visual Studio 2012. One project is unmanaged, the other one is managed. In both projects I have basically the same program that writes a lot of lines to a line sequential file. I notice a big difference in performance. In the unmanaged project the program is alomst twice as fast. It looks as if in the unmanaged project buffering of the i/o is taking place, while in the managed environment the buffering is missing. Can anybody tell me what the cause is of the difference in performance? And, is there a way to improve the performance of the managed program?

In Version 2.2 Dialog System can not open GUI when activeX component is included! is this also in VC 2.3? thanks for help

Hi All,  I want to select the contents of console screen , like how we do on cmd prompt i am unable to select all the contents. Only first few lines of the screen are selected.  I have attached the screen image on how i want to select the screen data

Hi ,  On Unix system we could do a mass compilation using shell scripting . Getting the Program names from a single location and passing them to the cob command for compilation. How do i implement that in Visual COBOL Powershell Environment . How do i compile my various Projects under D:\\Visual Studio 2013\\Projects i one go. In Unix i could get my program name dynamically from a particular directory as source pgms are at one location, but using MSBUILD i need to go inside the Project folder containing the .cblproj for each project Thanks, Zoeb

who has experience with Cobol and SAP? Since 9 month i learn to program in SAP Abap and i am enjoy for the possibilities in ABAP. ABAP is near Cobol, that was the begin and over many years ABAP have take a many possibilities from other languages. Open Source SQL is integrated, OO ABAP is possible, DYNPRO for graphicals Screens are integrated with many Icons, Webdynpro for Internet programming, etc.... ABAP-Workbench is a very good tool, but the generated code is an Interpreter! This may be a good way to integrate all possibilities in Visual Cobol for a glory future of Cobol Applications! Who want discussions about this theme?

We are planning to convert character based screens into WInforms. Looking for a document ,examples .Went thru this blog but not able to find. If any pointers would help us over here Thanks Karthik#COBOLVISUALCOBOLMIGRATION

Hi guys,Already available in the online bookstore AgBook  here, my Visual Cobol .NET book  with print option in black and white, in colors or PDF. With more than 50 examples projects distributed in more of 320 A4 pages with pictures and commented texts.I hope that this book can really contribute to enlarge the knowledge of those who are starting in Visual Cobol and like to build desktop applications.Regards,

Is anyone using the ActiveX controls from Component One (Grape City)?

After searching a Long time for a grid with Excel functionality, i have found a activex tool "mstgrid.ocx" from the Website: http://www.mysofttool.com/ With the activex-Assistant i was able to convert any codes in Cobol and i am enjoy from this functions. But by any code, i have Problems to convert! Who can help to convert Visual Basic or C#-Code? Are there better Tools that integrated in MF-Visual Cobol? A ocx-Viewer? Here a example of code in VB and C#? Here the code in C# private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e) { grdView1.NewFile(11, 6); grdView1.AutoRedraw = false; grdView1.ThemeStyle = MstGrid.ThemeStyle.Light3D; grdView1.ShowHeaderAutoText = MstGrid.HeaderAutoText.Both; grdView1.Row(2).Borders(MstGrid.CellBorders.Bottom).LineStyle = MstGrid.LineStyle.Thin; grdView1.Row(2).Borders(MstGrid.CellBorders.Bottom).Color = Color.Red; grdView1.Range(5, 2, 8, 4).Borders(MstGrid.CellBorders.Around).LineStyle = MstGrid.LineStyle.Thick; grdView1.Range(5, 2, 8,

I am running Visual studio 2012 VC 2.2.  I can open a DS screen in some folders that were done in netexpress, but I have two solutions that if I try to open the .GS file I get the following error: If I move that .GS file to a different folder that has a different netexpress solution in it, it works, as does all the other .GS in that folder. What do I have setup wrong?

COBCH0348 : Procedure name 96_SQLERROR undeclared, line 832 (first usage) . Several errors are coming during compilation in Visual Cobol 2.3. Same was working with Visual Studio Net Express. Please help Thanks  Ramesh