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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Box Twelve Press
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 30, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 372 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0692737448
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0692737446
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.42 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.84 x 10 inches
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  • Bob England
    5.0 out of 5 stars PERFORM READ-THIS-BOOK.
    Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2018
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    I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book. Despite having worked with Visual Cobol for several years on multiple projects I still gained valuable insights on the product and its use. The book does a great job of explaining not just what Visual Cobol is, but how to use it in business application development. I will keep this book within arm’s reach as a reference.

    The only criticism I have of the book is that Mr. Kelly politely understates its importance. COBOL has been the most important programming language in business application development since it was created. Object oriented programming is the most important new business application development methodology created since COBOL. Visual Cobol combines the two beautifully. Mr. Kelly’s book tells us how and shows us how to take advantage of it.

    COBOL is old. Gold is also old. Just because something is old does not mean it lacks value. The vast body of existing COBOL code is like a giant hidden treasure. Mr. Kelly just drew us a treasure map. Read the map!

    To summarize:

    IF YOU-CAN-READ-THIS
    . . PERFORM READ-THIS-BOOK
    . . . . UNTIL YOU-KNOW-WHAT-IS-POSSIBLE
    . . PERFORM WRITE-GREAT-NEW-SOFTWARE
    ELSE
    . . PERFORM READ-THIS-BOOK
    . . . . UNTIL YOU-KNOW-WHAT-YOU-ARE-MISSING
    . . END-PERFORM
    END-IF.
    PERFORM TRY-VISUAL-COBOL.
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  • Randy Faldon
    4.0 out of 5 stars Great book!! Taking RM/COBOL85 code to update to Visual COBOL. Wish me luck!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2022
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    Great book!! I'm working on a massive project, taking thousands of lines of code/modules written in RM/COBOL85 and then my goal is to update to Visual COBOL. Wish me luck and I know that this book is going to be just one tool to get it all going! As I understand and heard this is going to be hours of pulling out my hair, biting ( or byteing if you will lol) several pencils. If you know of an easier way to do this then please let me know. I'm new to Visual COBOL and I'm using Visual Studio as my IDE. Anything that I have written in Visual anything has mostly been C++, C# mainly, but I have dabbled with some other technologies. Thanks!
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  • Travis W.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect Guide to Modern Cobol and Modern Development Practices
    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2017
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    Fantastic primer for Cobol, its modern object-oriented features, and the Micro Focus Visual Cobol plugins for Visual Studio and Eclipse. The book is full of realistic examples that walk through implementation of new applications, as well as show a clear path toward modernizing existing Cobol applications. Great book, great material.
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  • mathman54
    1.0 out of 5 stars Don'tbother
    Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2026
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    There are no instructions about where to download, where to find or hhhow to setup visual cobol. The book is useless.
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  • Scott Risch
    5.0 out of 5 stars Visual Cobol MicroFocus
    Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2021
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    Started a new job supporting Cobol and they recommended this book to refresh my memory on Cobol and learn the Newer Technology available.
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  • jaime
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2017
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    Very good
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  • Michael
    4.0 out of 5 stars MIchael P.
    Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2017
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    This book is intended for experienced developers that already have a working knowledge of programming either with or without the Object Oriented paradigm knowledge. It is not intended, as is stated up front in chapter 2, to be a full tutorial on the COBOL programming language, but is to provide a good working background and reference to the extensions to the COBOL language that support building new and enhancing existing programs to take advantage of functionality and power that you will find provided by Microsoft .NET and JVM platforms.
    The book is written using straight forward easy to follow language without trying to impress by using a proliferation of jargon and acronyms. However, by necessity, it does reference some terminology used in Object Orientation that may be a little foreign to you if you have not been exposed to an object orientated language such as JAVA or .NET. For those of you familiar with any object oriented language you will already be familiar with the terminology and will have no problem, if however, you are from a strictly procedural programing language, after getting thorough the first two chapters I would suggest that you read through Chapters 13 Type definition, and 14 Data Types which will help in the understanding as you work through the other chapters and the tutorial examples.

    Although the publication extols the value of using Visual COBOL to generate portable cross platform source code, it also explains and demonstrates the potential to enhance existing native applications to take advantage of the power of .NET or JVM.
    Most of the chapters in the book are supplemented by good pre-built tutorial examples for both .NET and JVM. I found these examples an excellent learning experience and would encourage any reader to take full advantage of these tutorials to enhance the understanding of how projects are put together and, by using the debugger, examining the execution logic.

    Chapters 2 and 3 provide some background information and a comfortable introduction to the language, and a simple introduction of an application within the development User Interface, (Visual Studio and Eclipse). This provides your first gentle introduction to “managed” code.

    Chapter 4 uses the typical “Hello World” to ease you into the managed world and a good comparison between the “native” and “Managed” runtime environments. Chapters 5 and 6 goes into a deeper understanding of writing classes and covers some of the more advance features such as inheritance and exceptions. This may be a little daunting for a procedural developer, but stay with it, take time examining the tutorial example, and it will fall into place.

    Chapter 7 is recommended reading for organizations/developers that are looking for interoperation between the new managed world and the reuse of existing procedural COBOL programs. I have successfully used these techniques in my organization, so a truly valuable read.
    Although chapter 8 is titled Cross-Platform Programming and talks primarily to writing code that can be compiled to either the .NET or JVM, it uses design concepts that are good to adopt when developing for any managed environment.

    Chapter 9 talks to persisting data, saving data to a permanent storage device, e.g. disk drive. A subject many tutorials tend to ignore. Although this section is using Delegates and Events to initiate the file access, remember that this is just an example of an implementation and some applications may not require this level of complexity. Good to have as an example template.
    Most of the examples so far have used the console application as a front end to the application. Chapter 10 provides the basics of putting a more realistic graphical front end User Interface to the application. Although the sample uses a Windows Form and Java Swing as a UI, these same principles can be used for other UI development tools such as Windows WPF, (Windows Presentation Foundation).

    Chapter 11 gives a good example of using Visual COBOL as the back end to a Web application, an introduction to Representational State Transfer, REST, and how to reuse the same programs as used in the desktop application.

    Chapter 12 Program Structure and Compilation is good back ground information on how projects are structured in the respective development environment. Although it explains compilation using the command line syntax, most compiles and build are invoked behind the scenes within the development environment, e.g. Visual Studio.

    As mentioned earlier chapters 13 and 14 are recommended reading for procedural code developers prior to embarking on chapter 4, plus it is a good reference guide to Object Oriented programming.

    Chapter 15 and 16 should be used as a reference guide to only the Visual COBOL the extension statements that are supported for portable cross platform development for .NET and JVM and should not be perceived as the only statements available for managed code development. Most of all C# and JAVA statements can be translated in to equivalent Visual COBOL Statements, but remember that these translated statements are only executable in the respective .NET or JVM platforms.

    Summary:
    Although not a novice to the Visual COBOL platform, I found this Guide and the tutorial examples a valuable addition to the learning tools in our organization, and would be a valuable resource to any
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  • Noj
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Desk Reference and Tutorial!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2017
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    This book is an excellent tutorial and desk reference for Visual COBOL. If you haven’t looked at what Micro Focus is adding to the COBOL language or have looked and don’t fully understand how to use the new extensions, this book is for you. I like the dual format of being a tutorial with a real life business application that provides examples of how to use the language and being a desk reference when you need to know specifics of the language.
    As the author says, “Visual COBOL is the tool to help bridge the old with the new…” and that’s exactly what you can do with Visual COBOL and this book will get you there.
    I also like how the author purposely uses the platform neutral syntax in the examples so that a developer can create code that is truly portable between .Net and JVM.
    I highly recommend this book, it is the best Visual COBOL reference I’ve seen yet. Get the book and get coding!
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  • María
    5.0 out of 5 stars Libro
    Reviewed in Spain on October 10, 2020
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    Todo perfecto OK. Gracias
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  • Bernd Riemke
    1.0 out of 5 stars Für mich nicht brauchbar
    Reviewed in Germany on October 17, 2019
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    Das Schlechteste COBOL Buch das ich je gelesen habe.
    Es fehlt an Übersicht, Bezug zur Realität in dem was in Unternehmen/Softwareentwickler gefragt wird.
    Leider...
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  • Emilio Barcenas del Castillo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Muy útil para mí, y llegó rápido.
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 22, 2023
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    Me ha servido muy bien.
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