Editing and Debugging Differences

Data Tools
The Net Express Data Tools are available in Visual COBOL for Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013.

Debugging Native Object-Oriented COBOL
In Net Express you can examine an object while debugging OO COBOL and display the class that defined the object and also other objects derived from that class. In Visual COBOL, you can also view the class information of native OO COBOL but not while debugging.

Mixed Language Debugging
With Net Express you can debug mixed language applications. Visual COBOL does not support mixed language debugging of native code.

Program Breakpoints
Program breakpoints are breakpoints that stop execution each time a specified program or entry point within the program is called. They are supported in Visual COBOL, but by default their behavior is different from their behavior in Net Express

Remote Debugging
The Net Express animserv utility used for debugging programs remotely has been replaced by cobdebugremote (or cobdebugremote64 when debugging 64-bit processes) in Visual COBOL.

Source Pool View
The source pool view in Net Express showed all source files available in the project directory, regardless of whether or not they are used in the current build type. This view is not available in Visual COBOL.