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Title: COBOL Under .NET: An Easy Evolution Post by: Mark David on July 16, 2007, 02:28:31 AM “COBOL Under .NET: An Easy Evolution” (http://www.microfocus.com/000/wp-COBOLUnder.NET_tcm21-11527.pdf)
Net Express 5.0 further extends the capabilities of the previous version with a plethora of new features. This white paper looks at both, the creation of WinForms and WebForm applications entirely in COBOL. The vehicle for both of these is a simple file access example that returns product information, then computes shipping and insurance charges for a selected inventory items. The foundation of the example is two COBOL legacy subprograms; 1) to access an indexed file, and 2) to determine shipping and insurance information. Needless to say, the subprograms are highly contrived to minimize the code that is superfluous to the basic principles presented. |