This release includes various improvements in the
IntelliSense support for COBOL in the following areas:
- Native COBOL - support is now available for OCCURS statements
- Managed COBOL - suggestions are now available in the working storage section and in the following scenarios:
- Arithmetic expressions in method arguments
- Casting variables and some expressions
- Creating arrays using the TABLE OF expression and indexers
- Generics
- Implements and inherits
- Type name filtering in constructs and attributes
- Managed type headers, method heathers and index headers.
- Nested types
- Signature help (Visual Studio)
- SIZE OF expressions
- String concatenations
- TYPE OF constructs
- Unqualified members access - using the
SELF:: or
SUPER:: syntax
- Support for float literals has been enhanced.
- Suggestions are now available for more COBOL verbs such as TRY and RAISE (in managed COBOL) and EXAMINE, INSPECT, SEARCH, GO TO, INITIALIZE, INVOKE, and UNLOCK (in native COBOL).
- There are new IDE configuration settings for inserting suggestions and for case handling.
In addition, the Visual Studio editor provides the following new feature:
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- AutoCorrect - you can configure the editor to automatically fix the most frequently misspelled words. You use the IDE preferences to specify a list of words that you sometimes mistype, and the correct spellings for them. Whenever you misspell that word, the editor automatically replaces it with correct version.
