Please look in the documentation under General Reference-->Managed COBOL-->Managed COBOL Reference-->Concepts Managed COBOL-->Types and Type Conversion here:
This entire section has a lot of excellent information on using the Managed COBOL OO syntax in Visual COBOL.
Thanks.
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