Visual COBOL for Visual Studio Essentials (free)

0: Course Overview

• Course Overview

• Course Objectives

• Course Agenda

• Choice of Integrated Development Environment

• Requirements

• Course Structure

• Product Overview

• Sample Projects and Programs

1: Getting Started with Visual COBOL

• Introduction

• Visual COBOL Overview

• Loading an existing Project or Solution

• Setting up the Help System

• Visual COBOL Options and Project Properties

• Summary

• Test Your Knowledge Q&A

• Test Your Knowledge Answers

2: Editing COBOL in Visual COBOL

• Introduction

• COBOL Editing

• Demo: Further Editing 1

• Bookmarking

• Demo: Further Editing 2

• COBOL Source Information

• Code Analysis

• Additional Features

• Demo 2: CSI and Code Analysis

• Using Templates

• Summary

• Test Your Knowledge Questions

• Test Your Knowledge Answers

3: Creating a Project

• Introduction

• Creating a new project

• Populating a project

• Different Project types

• Demo 3: Project Types

• Summary

4: Editing Data

• Objectives

• Introduction

• Sequential File editing

• Indexed File editing

• Summary

5: Compiling

• Introduction

• Build Actions

• COBOL Compiler Control

• Code Analysis

• Pre-processors

• Producer Compiler Listing

• Single Source File Support

• Single File Support

• Command line compile

• Summary

• Test Your Knowledge Questions

• Test Your Knowledge Answers

6: Executing Your Code

• Introduction

• Running your Application Outside Visual Studio

• Executing your Application

• Summary

7: Debugging

• Introduction

• Starting Debugging

• Debugging Detail

• Demo: Stepping thru Code

• Looking at data values

• Demo: Data Item Editing

• Further Debugging Features

• Demo: Breakpoints

• Debug Options

• The Call Stack

• Demo: Options and Stack

• Exercises

• Using Directives

• Examples

• User Directives File

• Help on Directives

• Extended List of Commonly Used Directives

• Environment Variables

• Demo: Environment Variables

• Summary

• Test Your Knowledge Questions

• Test Your Knowledge Answers

8: File Type Support and Allocation

• Introduction

• File Details

• Converting File Character Set

• Demo: Data File Conversion

• File Assignments in your COBOL Programs

• Notes on Indexed Files

• File Handling (Other Features)

• Summary

• Exercise

• Test Your Knowledge Questions

• Test Your Knowledge Answers

9: Database Support

• Introduction

• Registering the database with ODBC

• Accessing the database from COBOL

• Summary

10: Using the Open ESQL Assistant

• Introduction

• Creating a Suitable Project

• Summary

• Exercise

11: Unit Testing Support

• Introduction

• Debugging

• Data Files for Testing

• Code Coverage

• Demo: Using Code Coverage

• Profiler

• Debugging Core Dumps

• Forcing a Run-Time Error

• Common Error Messages

• Summary

• Test Your Knowledge Questions

• Test Your Knowledge Answers

11a: Unit Testing Support

• Objectives

• Introduction

• Getting started

12: Introduction to Object Oriented Programming

• Overview

• Classes and Methods

• Objects

• Constructors

• Method Overloading

• Properties

• Method Visibility

• Local Data

• Data Types

• Interfaces

• Class Names

• Intrinsic Types

• .NET Frameworks

• Reflection

• Calling COBOL from Other Languages

• Appendix A: ILSMARTLINKAGE

• Appendix B: What Next?

13: Object Oriented Programming with COBOL

• Introduction

• COBOL inside the .NET Framework

• .NET Overview

• Problems with Pre .NET Application Development M...

• Native and Managed Solutions

• Managed Code

• Managed COBOL running on .NET

• Managed COBOL running on JVM

• Managed COBOL Programming Language

• Summary

• Worked Examples

• Evolving Demonstrations

• Summary

14: Windows Forms

• Introduction

• Visual COBOL Forms Designer Overview

• Sample Application

• Creating a New Form in a New Project

• Enhancing the Forms Application

• Summary

• Exercise 1

• Exercise 2

• Exercise 3

• Exercise 4

15: Database with ADO .NET

• Introduction

• ADO .NET Overview

• ADO .NET Data Access Sequence

• Micro Focus Support for ADO .NET

• Datasets

• Converting an ODBC Application to ADO.NET

• Setting Up an ADO .NET Connection

• Example ADO .NET Project using our Access Databa...

• Example ADO .NET Project using Indexed Files Dat...

• Using the ESQL Assistant

• Summary

• Exercise

16: Mixed Language Application

• Introduction

• VB Circle Program

• VB/COBOL Circle Solution

• VB/COBOL Further example

• VB/COBOL Table passing

• VB/COBOL Date Handling

• COBOL .NET data types

• Summary

17: Web Applications

• Introduction

• Web Application functionality

• HTTP, HTML and ASP overview

• ASP .NET Application

• Running the Sample Web Site

• Debugging the sample Web Site

• Creating a simple Web Application

• Data Validation in Web Applications

• Summary

18a: Web Services

• Introduction

• Technical Overview

• Characteristics of Web Services

• Cornerstones of Web Services

• Using a Web Service

• Creating a simple COBOL Web Service

• Create a Client to use the Service

• Summary

18b: Web Services with IMTK and REST

• Introduction

• Web service creation steps

• CheckAppt Operation

• Creating a Micro Focus Server

• Deploy a Service Interface

• View Deployment Results

• Generate Clients

• Run the WPF Client

• Debug the WPF Client

19: .NET Error handling

• Introduction

• Typical .NET Error Screen

• The try-catch mechanism

• Exception Example

• Use of an intermediate record object

• Summary

• Exercises Further Exception Examples

20: Visual COBOL -- Importing Net Express Projects

• Introduction

• Importing a Net Express Project

• Summary

• Exercise

21: Application Deployment

• Introduction

• Building details

• Linking the Application

• Shared Run-time System for Running Native COBOL ...

• Dynamically Binding Run-time Systems to Your Nat...

• Order of Program Loading and Run-time System Usa...

• Loading a Dynamic Link Library Built as Native C...

• Application Performance with Dynamic Binding for...

• Calling Programs According to How They Are Linke...

• Building and Running a Runtime Configuration Fil...

• Setting Up the Build

• Setting up the Execution

• Setting up the Execution

• Run-time configuration settings available in the...

• Run-time Launch Configuration Files

• Run-time Launch Configuration File Options

22: Visual COBOL -- Training course

• Summary

• Legal Notices

23: Moving On

• Moving On

• Data file location for testing

• COBOL and COPY source location

• Scenario 1 -- Independent set of batch programs ...

• Scenario 2 -- Set of batch programs which can ca...

• Scenario 3 -- Interactive programs which can cal...

• Calling programs which are not in the project

24: Object Oriented Concepts

• Introduction

• Traditional Program Design

• Object Oriented Design

• Moving from Procedural code to OO

• Object Oriented Terminology

• COBOL .NET

• COBOL .NET Classes and Instances

• Summary

Appendix: Editing Data – Classic Data File Editor

• Introduction

• Editing Functions for Sequential Files

• Editing Sequential Data Files

• Defining Record Layouts

• Defining Record Layout

• Indexed file editing

• Editing Indexed Files

• Data file Editor Options

• Creating a new data file

• New File Creation

• Summary

• Exercise

• Test Your Knowledge Questions

• Test Your Knowledge Answers

Quiz