I've not ventured back to VS Code for a fair while, so have some questions and things that need clarification.
My understanding for searching through the community posts what when you start vs code (such as from the command line 'code . ') if an existing .cblproj file exists it is read and the compile directives used, SQL directives and copybook paths.
I seem to find this isn't true. To locate my copybooks I ended up creating a cobol.dir file and used COPYPATH(C:\\MF\\COPY;C:\\MF\\CPB)
I also configured tasks.json:
{ "version": "2.0.0", "tasks": [ { "type": "COBOL-MSBuild", "command": "C:\\\\Program Files\\\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\\\2022\\\\Enterprise\\\\MSBuild\\\\Current\\\\Bin\\\\amd64\\\\MSBuild.exe", "buildTarget": "${workspacefolder}/MyProg.cblproj", "problemMatcher": [ "$COBOLMSBuild" ], "group": "build", "label": "COBOL: MSBuild (Compile Current File)", "compileSource": { "isDefault": true } } ]}But pressing CTRL + Shift +B resulted in:
The term 'C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2022\\Enterprise\\MSBuild\\Current\\Bin\\amd64\\MSBuild.exe",' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
msbuild.exe is at that location and its folder is also on the environment PATH.
In Visual Studio:
Would bring in the copybook SQLA.CPY which is in the path of COPYPATH, this doesn't seem to happen in VS Code?
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
msbuild.exe is at that location and its folder is also on the environment PATH.
In Visual Studio:
EXEC SQL INCLUDE SQLCA END-EXEC.
EXEC SQL BEGIN DECLARE SECTION END-EXEC.The above seems to assume the source code is NATIVE and says the SQL(DMAN) directive option isn't supported, when I have defined SQL(ADO) in the directives.mf.
Even if I set this in the source code it seems to still assume its native COBOL rather than COBOL .NET
$set ILGEN $set ilusing "System"If I want to use VS Code as a primary editor, what is the best way to add dependencies (other COBOL DLL's) as well as Micro Focus nuget packages?
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Neil Hayes
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