NetCOBOL for .NET

NetCOBOL for .NET is a compiler created specifically for the Microsoft .NET environment and produces code that executes under the Common Language Runtime (CLR). This language-neutral, platform-independent environment lets you mix modern languages like C# and VB.NET on any .NET-compatible hardware and in the Windows® Azure™ cloud.

NetCOBOL for .NET provides exciting opportunities to port mainframe and midrange Cobol applications to the PC. It also allows you to leverage GT Software products such as NeoKicks, NeoBatch and NeoData to make projects more productive and cost effective by providing the ability to modernize-as-you-migrate from the mainframe. You can port applications to integrate them with other .NET languages which provides exciting new opportunities for your Cobol applications. Also, creating XML Web services with Cobol has never been easier!

Highlights

• No COBOL runtime license charges
• Supports LE subroutines, Micro Focus compatible mode and AcuCOBOL subroutines, CBL Subroutines and File Access Routines
• Support of Microsoft Azure and of SQL Azure
• Executes under the Common Language Runtime (CLR), JIT Debugger and Nuget
• Using the SQL CLR on .NET Framework 4
• COBOL programs can be integrated seamlessly with other languages: inheriting from classes created in other languages, invoking and being invoked by methods written in other languages.
• Full access to .NET Framework classes, including XML Web service and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) classes
• Mixed language applications can be debugged with the one Visual Studio debugger
• Includes COBOL support for IntelliSense
• Inter-operation with other .Net languages, COM, and existing native-code compilers

Full details can be found on the NetCOBOL.Net product page