COBOL Programming Using the .NET Framework

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 336 pages
• Published by: Pearson Education
• Edition: 1st Edition March 11, 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0130668435
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130668431
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.4 pounds

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COBOL and .NET: application migration, design, implementation, and deployment.

• COBOL for .NET: design, coding, and deployment
• Migrating legacy COBOL code to Web environments using
• Fujitsu(r) COBOL for .NET
• Developing COBOL applications with Visual Studio.NET
• Maximizing application efficiency and performance

Now that COBOL is being integrated into Microsoft's .NET platform and Visual Studio.NET toolset, developers have a powerful way to bring their COBOL expertise into the Web-enabled future. In this book, long-time Windows programming expert Dr. Ronald Reeves gives developers comprehensive guidance for writing new COBOL code for .NET environments, and migrating existing COBOL code to the .NET platform. Reeves begins by introducing the .NET framework and Visual Studio.NET development environment from the COBOL programmer's standpoint. Next, he covers every key aspect of COBOL development for .NET, including:

• Providing interoperability between legacy "unmanaged" code and .NET managed code
• Building next-generation Web services and applications using ASP.NET and WebForms
• Leveraging SOAP and the Web Services Description Language (SOAP)
• WinForms: Integrating COBOL software with powerful Windows client user interfaces
• Building COBOL-based database applications with ADO.NET
• Object-oriented COBOL programming using .NET extensions
• Designing COBOL.NET applications for maximum efficiency and performance

About The Author


RONALD D. REEVES, PH.D., is President of Computer Engineering, Inc., a leading consulting and training company based in Howell, MI. He is author of C++/C# Programmer's Guide for Windows 2000 and co-author of Win32 System Services: The Heart of Windows 98 and Windows 2000, Third Edition (both from Prentice Hall PTR).

Reader Reviews
Unless one is from another planet, or hasn't been reading about COBOL for a few years, there is hardly anything new in this book. All the COBOL specific material can be found FREELY at Fujitsu's website or in the Help System for the COBOL for .NET release candidate. The non COBOL stuff is either trivial (Object Model) or out of context (Windows 2000 API). In a word, I was expecting new material and bought a compilation. Comment | | (Report this)