This chapter takes you on a quick tour of the NetCOBOL development environment.
It provides you with:
An “Overview of the Guided Tour” to help you determine which parts of the tour are most relevant to you.
“A Guided Tour through NetCOBOL” which takes you through:
Using COBOL Project Manager
Debugging
Using Configuration Management
Working with OO COBOL
The chapter focuses on creating COBOL applications. See Chapter 3. Working with Visual Basic for details on developing Visual Basic COBOL applications.
NetCOBOL ships with sample COBOL applications that cover a wide array of NetCOBOL functions. Appendix A describes these sample applications in detail.
NetCOBOL provides NetCOBOL Studio, a development environment based on Eclipse that replaced Project Manager.
For guided tour of NetCOBOL Studio, refer to NetCOBOL Studio User’s Guide Chapter 2: Tutorial.
