Hello,  Microssoft has released VS 2022 and we are looking to move to it from VS 2019.  I can not find any information on the Micro Focus pages about support for VS2022.  Does any one know when they plan to support it?   We are using Visual Cobol 6 currently.

thanks

Micro Focus is planning on supporting VS2022 in the next major release which will be V8.0 due out next summer. It is possible that this support may be available in a technical preview earlier than this but right now this is not planned.

Thanks for the answer.  That is unfortunate as we are looking to move to VS2022 soon and the only thing holding us back in Visual Cobol.  We have several million lines of cobol code still.  VS2022 fixes issues with memory issues that plague our large project.  It seems that we must go ahead with our evaluation of Fuijutsi Cobol.

Hi George. What makes you think that VS2022 will fix memory problems that you are having with large projects? Is this something that Microsoft has looked into and has confirmed is an issue with VS2019? 

Are your large projects COBOL projects or are they projects for a Microsoft language such as C# or VB?

Thanks

For our group, they are a mix of large Cobol and C# projects.

The out of memory errors we get come from the extensions, ie resaharper, visual source cobol.  VS 2019 also keeps trying to disable some of the cobol extensions due to performance issues.Microsoft has looked into it and it was told to us that it was an issue in the extensions.

I move thru alot of cobol and .net files in one session and can cause vs2019 to crash with out of memory issues.  the report points to both resharper and cobol. It seems to be issues with the extensions tryng to keep track of all the different lines of code, variables, etc.  On an average day I can crash vs2019, 9 times.

Also the rest of our team is moving to VS2022 due to company requirements, and we are the ones holding them back.

thanks

We have made some changes to the Visual COBOL product having to do with memory usage on large projects, which may help you with some of the memory problems, at least on the COBOL side of things. The changes are in V6.0 PU14 which is due out at the end of this month and V7.0 PU3 which has now been released and is available for download.

Although this wont help you with your move to VS2022 it may help with the stability of Visual Studio 2019 if you decide to keep using it.

We will look forward to V6.0 PU14  as we will use VS 2019 for now and  might be interested in any early betas you might have for VS2022

George, April-ish is when we'd expect to provide previews to beta customers but we'll keep you posted on progress.