Visual Cobol 10.0 Personal edition

i had create a little project in Netexpress 5.x and wanted to import/convert this in Visual Cobol 10

This was not possible due errors

Is it possible to become the latest service packs for this product, to be able to see if this problem is solved or a new trouble?

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Claude Greiner
Managing Director - Cobol Developer
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Rheinbreitbach Germany
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Hi Claude, please see my reply to your previous post. Visual Cobol 10.0 - Compile error COBCH0314 Illegal key | Rocket® Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus® product)

Thanks

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Chris Glazier
Principal Technical Support Specialist
Rocket Forum Shared Account
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Hi Claude, please see my reply to your previous post. Visual Cobol 10.0 - Compile error COBCH0314 Illegal key | Rocket® Visual COBOL (formerly a Micro Focus® product)

Thanks

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Chris Glazier
Principal Technical Support Specialist
Rocket Forum Shared Account
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Hello Chris,

i had seen you answer for the illegal key!
Wich time is VC11 coming? your customer may wait so long time by this
critical compiling errors?

But now with vc10, it is not possible to convert a netexpress project to
vc10.
I had download the newest and latest Rocket Software VC10 PE and had no
installation errors or licensing trouble. Never had this
trouble by all older vc version (3 to 9)

Can i send you a zip file, where you are able to see the two problems?

Many thanks

Claude Greiner

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You can try uploading the zip file to this forum using the Upload File button on the lower right but there is a limit on size so if there are unnecessary files such as executables in the zip, please remove them.

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for Chris,

here the upload for my 2 troubles:

illegal key
importing/converting a netexpress 5.x app to vc10

i use the newest windows 11 24h2 with all new patches, all visual studio 2022 patches and the latest vc10 pe software from rocket (not the older version from Microfocus)

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Claude Greiner
Managing Director - Cobol Developer
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Rheinbreitbach Germany
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for Chris,

here the upload for my 2 troubles:

illegal key
importing/converting a netexpress 5.x app to vc10

i use the newest windows 11 24h2 with all new patches, all visual studio 2022 patches and the latest vc10 pe software from rocket (not the older version from Microfocus)

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Claude Greiner
Managing Director - Cobol Developer
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The error with the renames on a key is fixed in V11 which does not yet have a GA date.

If the error, you are receiving when importing the Net Express project is that there is no template then you are probably running a version of Visual Studio 2022, which is 17.13.4 or higher.

A bug has been found beginning with 17.13.4 which causes the COBOL templates not to be recognized. You can check if this is the problem if you create a new project and the COBOL templates are not shown in the list or if you open an existing project and try to add a new item.

The issue has already been reported to Microsoft, and there is currently no timeframe for a fix to be delivered by Microsoft.

The following information is from a KB article on the subject:

In the meantime, the workaround is to roll back to a previous version of Visual Studio 2022 that worked. This can be done by:

Launching Visual Studio Installer
Clicking More for Visual Studio 2022
Clicking Rollback to previous version

There is another workaround to allow to use Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13.4, but it requires a caution to follow each step:

Close all instances of the Visual Studio 2022 IDE
Open Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022
Issue these commands to determine the location of the PkgDef file of the COBOL extension (i.e. CBLPRJ.PKGDEF):
```
CD %DEVENVDIR%\\EXTENSIONS
DIR CBLPRJ.PKGDEF /S
```
Note the last command will return the location where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located. Here is an example:
Directory of C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\XXXX\\Common7\\IDE\\Extensions\\YYYY
where XXXX is the edition of Visual Studio 2022 (e.g. Community, Professional, etc.)
where YYYY is a random string as the name of the subfolder where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located
Issue this command to change directory to the subfolder where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located:
```
CD YYYY
```
where YYYY is the name of the subfolder identified from previous step
Issue this command to edit CBLPRJ.PKGDEF in Notepad:
```
NOTEPAD CBLPRJ.PKGDEF
```
Search for the following line and delete it:
"TemplatesDir"="\\\\"
Search for the same line a second time and delete it
Search for the following line and delete it:
"TemplatesDir"="\\.\\NullPath"
Click File > Save
Close Notepad
Issue this command to apply the changes to the COBOL extension in Visual Studio:
```
DEVENV /UPDATECONFIGURATION
```
Close the command prompt
Launch Visual Studio

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Chris Glazier
Principal Technical Support Specialist
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The error with the renames on a key is fixed in V11 which does not yet have a GA date.

If the error, you are receiving when importing the Net Express project is that there is no template then you are probably running a version of Visual Studio 2022, which is 17.13.4 or higher.

A bug has been found beginning with 17.13.4 which causes the COBOL templates not to be recognized. You can check if this is the problem if you create a new project and the COBOL templates are not shown in the list or if you open an existing project and try to add a new item.

The issue has already been reported to Microsoft, and there is currently no timeframe for a fix to be delivered by Microsoft.

The following information is from a KB article on the subject:

In the meantime, the workaround is to roll back to a previous version of Visual Studio 2022 that worked. This can be done by:

Launching Visual Studio Installer
Clicking More for Visual Studio 2022
Clicking Rollback to previous version

There is another workaround to allow to use Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13.4, but it requires a caution to follow each step:

Close all instances of the Visual Studio 2022 IDE
Open Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022
Issue these commands to determine the location of the PkgDef file of the COBOL extension (i.e. CBLPRJ.PKGDEF):
```
CD %DEVENVDIR%\\EXTENSIONS
DIR CBLPRJ.PKGDEF /S
```
Note the last command will return the location where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located. Here is an example:
Directory of C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\XXXX\\Common7\\IDE\\Extensions\\YYYY
where XXXX is the edition of Visual Studio 2022 (e.g. Community, Professional, etc.)
where YYYY is a random string as the name of the subfolder where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located
Issue this command to change directory to the subfolder where CBLPRJ.PKGDEF is located:
```
CD YYYY
```
where YYYY is the name of the subfolder identified from previous step
Issue this command to edit CBLPRJ.PKGDEF in Notepad:
```
NOTEPAD CBLPRJ.PKGDEF
```
Search for the following line and delete it:
"TemplatesDir"="\\\\"
Search for the same line a second time and delete it
Search for the following line and delete it:
"TemplatesDir"="\\.\\NullPath"
Click File > Save
Close Notepad
Issue this command to apply the changes to the COBOL extension in Visual Studio:
```
DEVENV /UPDATECONFIGURATION
```
Close the command prompt
Launch Visual Studio

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Chris Glazier
Principal Technical Support Specialist
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Hi Chris,

Thanks for this solution. I have been battling to start a COBOL project in Native mode - I only had .NET available. Your solution helped to reset the Rocket (Micro Focus) Visual COBOL 10 PE Edition - Extension in Visual Studio Community Edition 17.13. 6. Many thanks

Colin

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