Users experiencing slow responsiveness in Visual Studio with NetCOBOL V7/V8 can now download the following fixes:
New NetCOBOL 2017 releases
Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET V8 is now available for download
What's new in NetCOBOL for .NET V8:
Support for Visual Studio 2017 / .NET Framework 4.6.2
- Support of LE subroutines - Language Environment of IBM compatibility
- Support of XML documentation comments
- Support of NuGet
- Support of Standard COBOL Exception handling in the USE statement -
- Instead of exiting the program or method, control can be returned to the
- statement following the USE statement
- A NEW sample collection is now provided.
- This release also supports running COBOL programs in Windows Azure Services and accessing SQL Azure databases using COBOL.
Note: Microsoft no longer offers the Shell version of Visual Studio. A version of Visual Studio 2017 must be installed before installing NetCOBOL for .Net V8.
New NetCOBOL 2016 releases
Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET v7.0 R2 and NetCOBOL for Windows V11 x86 are now available for download. These newest product versions offer additional functionality and support of the latest Microsoft technologies.
What's new in NetCOBOL for .NET V7.0 R2:
- Support for Windows 10
- Support for Visual Studio 2015 / .NET Framework 4.5.2/4.6/4.6.1
- Improved Stored procedure performance
- Support of AcuCOBOL subroutines
- Support of COBOL file access subroutines
- Data Provider Extension function - supports connection to databases using Data Providers other than the .NET Framework standard Data Providers.
- Data base distributed transaction - Using the distributed transaction, the transaction is shared between COBOL programs and .NET languages like C# or VB,etc.
- Support of ACCEPT FROM SYSIN
- Data base NULL character processing – You can now enable or disable the NULL value of the host variable of the output value of an alphanumeric item.
- PICTURE strings now support 50 digits.
- Editor Enhancements: Overtype on the sequence number area and the indicator area
- Using the SQL CLR on .NET Framework 4
- Support for the default value of paper size and printing format
- COMP-6
- 78-literal MF compatible support
- ACP-OF Performance Improvement
- Azure SDK 2.8 support
- VS2015 Update 3 support
- Support of Micro Focus compatible mode
- Support of SQL bigint type
Download the product here.
What's New in NetCOBOL for Windows V11 x86:
- Now supports Windows 10
- New Solution development level in NetCOBOL Studio (multiple programs in one solution)
NetCOBOL for Windows uses licensing software that requires activation through an online server. This version of NetCOBOL for Windows must be registered separately from any previous versions of NetCOBOL for Windows and additionally requires a separate product serial number from previous versions of the product. If you are a registered user of Fujitsu NetCOBOL for Windows with a valid service agreement with COSS Solutions, you may request your new serial number by opening a support incident. Download the product here.
When installing this new release, first uninstall your current product version.