New to Visual Studio

Visual COBOL uses a proven industry Integrated Development Environment that provides advanced features for COBOL editing and debugging for application developers. Continuous background compilation, auto complete, code analysis, and code search are just a few of the many developer tools available to streamline application delivery. You can utilize REST and JSON to build new web services. You can create new user interfaces using Win Forms or WPF and also combine COBOL with C#, VB, and other .NET languages-all within one IDE.

Where to start?

If you've never used Visual Studio before, this product help includes the following resources to help you get started:

What next?

Visual COBOL is a powerful development environment with a variety of features and tools suited to help you get on with your programming effectively and efficiently.