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I have installed the Microfocus Visual Cobol 9 after downloading the product from the "">www.microfocus.com/.../overview". I have also installed a community edition of Visual Studio 2022 prior to the Visual Cobol install, and I can develop .net applications in it. However I am unable to create any of the "Visual COBOL" template projects. Creating these gives an error in Visual Studio. I cannot even open a COBOL file and when I try to do so, I can see the an error listed below the ribbon(Screen shot attached) in Visual Studio. The error reads as follows

"Visual Cobol for Visual Studio does not have a valid License".

When I try to install the License following the visual studio link in the error message, I get the error shown in the attached screenshot.

Please note that I have already installed the Visual Cobol License Manager and activated the product on the Microfocus Site.

How do I get past this installation error and start some coding in COBOL.


#VisualCOBOL
#COBOL
#Installation
#license
#VisualStudio

I have installed the Microfocus Visual Cobol 9 after downloading the product from the "">www.microfocus.com/.../overview". I have also installed a community edition of Visual Studio 2022 prior to the Visual Cobol install, and I can develop .net applications in it. However I am unable to create any of the "Visual COBOL" template projects. Creating these gives an error in Visual Studio. I cannot even open a COBOL file and when I try to do so, I can see the an error listed below the ribbon(Screen shot attached) in Visual Studio. The error reads as follows

"Visual Cobol for Visual Studio does not have a valid License".

When I try to install the License following the visual studio link in the error message, I get the error shown in the attached screenshot.

Please note that I have already installed the Visual Cobol License Manager and activated the product on the Microfocus Site.

How do I get past this installation error and start some coding in COBOL.


#VisualCOBOL
#COBOL
#Installation
#license
#VisualStudio

Can you please email me the license file that you are using so that I can check its validity?

Send it to cglazier@rocketsoftware.com

Also could you clarify your statement

"Please note that I have already installed the Visual Cobol License Manager and activated the product on the Microfocus Site"

Thanks


Can you please email me the license file that you are using so that I can check its validity?

Send it to cglazier@rocketsoftware.com

Also could you clarify your statement

"Please note that I have already installed the Visual Cobol License Manager and activated the product on the Microfocus Site"

Thanks

Already sent you an email and clarified the quote.


I have installed the Microfocus Visual Cobol 9 after downloading the product from the "">www.microfocus.com/.../overview". I have also installed a community edition of Visual Studio 2022 prior to the Visual Cobol install, and I can develop .net applications in it. However I am unable to create any of the "Visual COBOL" template projects. Creating these gives an error in Visual Studio. I cannot even open a COBOL file and when I try to do so, I can see the an error listed below the ribbon(Screen shot attached) in Visual Studio. The error reads as follows

"Visual Cobol for Visual Studio does not have a valid License".

When I try to install the License following the visual studio link in the error message, I get the error shown in the attached screenshot.

Please note that I have already installed the Visual Cobol License Manager and activated the product on the Microfocus Site.

How do I get past this installation error and start some coding in COBOL.


#VisualCOBOL
#COBOL
#Installation
#license
#VisualStudio

Chris provided me with another license key and the authorization worked well. The issue is resoloved. Must be some issue with the default key generated.