COBOL Development and Deployment for .NET
Highly Productive COBOL Development with Visual Studio 2008
Based on the same core COBOL technology as Net Express, Net Express with .NET 5.1 has unrivalled support for the Windows .NET framework. This exciting new product allows you to manage your existing COBOL code, using the powerful new Visual Studio 2008 Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to take advantage of all the benefits of Microsoft’s .NET framework 3.5. It includes Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) for building compelling modern GUIs to your Applications, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) to construct powerful SOA application components to work across platforms and between applications. Net Express with .NET is, quite simply - the best COBOL Application development suite for Windows .NET.
Enhanced features include:
Supported version updates from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2008
Deployment into Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 with Micro Focus Server for .NET
COBOL templates added to Net Express with .NET reduce the development time for your new applications and modules by supplying the building-blocks to kick-start new applications
Updated pre-supplied COBOL project types for common types of COBOL applications such as Windows Presentation Framework or Windows Communication Framework
Visual Studio integration to paint Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) interfaces in COBOL
Ability to create Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) services in COBOL
COBOL Class Browser capability through the Visual Studio Class View facilitates rapid effective COBOL Object Oriented development
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Shell Edition bundled free of charge (or alternatively plug Net Express with .NET into your own edition of Visual Studio 2008 excluding Express Editions)
Micro Focus Net Express® with .NET is a COBOL development environment that takes core business processes and extends them to the .NET Framework and other distributed platforms. Using Net Express with .NET you can quickly construct enterprise components and services from your existing business logic and use these to develop new Microsoft® .NET, web or client/server applications across your distributed enterprise. Net Express with .NET provides an environment both to build new applications and leverage proven business logic, data and programming resources, dramatically reducing the development cycle and accelerating deployment of contemporary business applications.
Net Express with .NET will be discussed in detail (including a product demonstration) in a webcast on the 16th July. Register to attend.
For further information on Net Express with .NET 5.1 please click here.
