OVERVIEW

Visual COBOL® Personal Edition (PE) is here. Work within the industry-standard IDE of your choice. Visual COBOL PE integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio and Eclipse giving you the choice to develop COBOL applications using the world’s most popular integrated development environments. This is your opportunity to learn the enterprise language behind 70% of today’s business transactions.

Visual COBOL Personal Edition has the same features as the commercial version. These include:

  • Procedural and object-oriented COBOL development
  • Build COBOL applications for native code, .NET and the Java Virtual Machine
  • Mixed language interoperability with Java and C#
  • Code assist tools such as Intellisense and auto-complete
  • Visual Studio designer support for creating WPF, Winforms and ASP.NET applications
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For the existing RM/COBOL® community, RM/COBOL is a stable, high performance COBOL platform providing a familiar environment for developers to maintain and improve RM/COBOL applications.

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