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Visual Studio edition help

Forum|Forum|18 days ago
January 18, 2026
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WayneCa
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I have successfully downloaded Visual COBOL. Reading the pdf, I find it talks about which versions of Visual Studio are supported. I think the doc may be somewhat outdated since it doesn’t talk about .NET 8 or Visual Studio Community 2022 edition. The first recommended topic to view is 8 years old, so I don’t think it applies.

I am withholding installation until I know it will work with my system. I have:--

HP Pavilion 64-Bit Gaming Laptop
AMD Ryzen 5 Processor
16 Gigs RAM
1-TB Internal Storage
Windows 11 Home Edition
External 8-TB Solid-State Hard Drive
Visual Studio Community 2022 64-bit Edition, Version 17.14.24

Will Visual COBOL work with my system?

Best answer by Martin Turner

The best place to look is in the product documentation. This page has a lot of information about supported OS, 3rd party software etc.

https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle/visualcobolvs2022_ug_110/page/cak1742951275949.html

What version of Visual COBOL do you have?

Thank you

Martyna Uleviciute
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Forum|Forum|17 days ago
January 19, 2026

Hi @WayneCa, thanks for your message. I moved your question to the Visual COBOL product forum. Folks here will be best to assist you.

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WayneCa
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Forum|Forum|17 days ago
January 19, 2026

Hi @WayneCa, thanks for your message. I moved your question to the Visual COBOL product forum. Folks here will be best to assist you.

Thanks, but I posted it where I did because I was hoping for an answer from someone at Rocket that would know what platforms are supported. I hope I get an answer here because the last post I read that had been moved here was never answered, and that was years ago.

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Martin Turner
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Forum|Forum|15 days ago
January 21, 2026

The best place to look is in the product documentation. This page has a lot of information about supported OS, 3rd party software etc.

https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle/visualcobolvs2022_ug_110/page/cak1742951275949.html

What version of Visual COBOL do you have?

Thank you

Martin Turner | Senior Technical Support Engineer | Rocket Software

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WayneCa
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Forum|Forum|15 days ago
January 21, 2026

The best place to look is in the product documentation. This page has a lot of information about supported OS, 3rd party software etc.

https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle/visualcobolvs2022_ug_110/page/cak1742951275949.html

What version of Visual COBOL do you have?

Thank you

I have Visual COBOL 11.0, and I was able to install it. I have not tried using it yet, as I am waiting for the 3 books I purchased to arrive. They are Visual COBOL: A Developer’s Guide to Modern COBOL, murach’s mainframe COBOL and Modern Mainframe Development COBOL, Databases, and Next-Generation Approaches. I may also end up purchasing murach’s CICS for the COBOL Programmer and Beginning COBOL for Programmers (to help refresh my memory of what I learned at DeVry 25 years ago).