Forum Post: RE: release Excel from memory in Visual Cobol
The interface should be the same under Visual COBOL if you are still using a native code project along with the COM support. Have you rewritten the Excel piece in managed code using the Microsoft...
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Hi Chris, Many thanks for getting back to me. Yes, we did change everything to use the MS-Office Interop classes. I looked at a few VB and C# forums to try work out how to replicate things like...
View ArticleForum Post: Stack Overflow issue: is there a limit?
We have a COBOL program that was migrated from Bull mainframe syntax to Visual COBOL. It took some work to get it to run, because not all of the code is "optimal" . It's over 17,000 lines, and calls...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Stack Overflow issue: is there a limit?
Hi Jay, There can be a problem with this type of program where there may be overlapping perform ranges or GO TO statements that jump out of one section and into a different one, when compiling for...
View ArticleForum Post: Visual Cobol 2.3
Dear Sir, I installed Visual Cobol for Eclipse 2.3 and now I get No editor descriptor for id org.eclipse.ui.internal.emptyEditorTab when I try to edit any Cobol Program.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: release Excel from memory in Visual Cobol
You can release the memory on the COM objects created from the Excel interop class using something like: $set ilusing"System.Runtime.InteropServices" Invoke type...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: release Excel from memory in Visual Cobol
Hi Chris, Thanks again for that info ... I will give it a try later today. I didn't used the word "type" between the "Invoke" and "Marshal" which is probably why I was getting verb/operand...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: release Excel from memory in Visual Cobol
The word type is required in COBOL because you are invoking the static method FinalReleaseComObject in the class Marshal. You always need to use type when what follows it is a direct class name and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: release Excel from memory in Visual Cobol
Sorry Chris, I haven't had time today to fully investigate the changes required. What I need to do tomorrow is try count the number of invokes which should then tell me the number of...
View ArticleForum Post: Cobol Server 2013 & Enterprise Developer
Hi, i have a question for visual cobol: can I release executable file(gnt\exe\dll) compiled in Enterprise Developer to Cobol Server 2013? Or do I need to compile the COBOL source in Visual Cobol for...
View ArticleForum Post: Product Licensing Problem
Hi, all: I am new in this community but need an urgent help from you. In May this year I downloaded COBOL Personal Edition for one year use until May 2016. It worked fine until September. But now I...
View ArticleForum Post: CBL_DEBUGBREAK
HI, I'm using "Enterprise Developer 2.2 Update 2" , when I call gnt program from a batch script dos, compiled with ANIM (32 bit) the statement CALL "CBL_DEBUGBREAK" dont' work, don't give error,...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Cobol Server 2013 & Enterprise Developer
If the programs are non-mainframe and do not require Enterprise Server to run then you should be able to run them under COBOL Server 2013 if they were compiled under ED for VS2013.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Product Licensing Problem
Close down the Visual COBOL product. Delete the following files. Lservrc.stn Lservrc.net They should be found in: C:\ProgramData\Micro Focus - on Windows 7 and up C:\Documents and Settings\All...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: CBL_DEBUGBREAK
CBL_DEBUGBREAK should work the same way for native programs in Visual COBOL as it does in Net Express but you might have to turn on the JIT debugging in Visual Studio. Navigate in the Visual Studio...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: CBL_DEBUGBREAK
i'm using Enterprise Developer 2.2 Update 2 under Eclipse is the same? (after i would release dll, gnt and exe on Cobol Server 2013 on windows 2012.)
View ArticleForum Post: RE: CBL_DEBUGBREAK
Where are you executing the Dos script? On your PC or on the server? If on your PC, does it point to the server loadlib? If you execute the Dos script on the server, the execution will be on the...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: CBL_DEBUGBREAK
i'm running from dos script on the same server where is Enterprise Developer 2.2 for eclipse. in loadlib there is GNT and IDY file.. thx
View ArticleForum Post: Redirect LPT1?
Hi, I have an old Net Express (and earlier) COBOL program that sends Hewlett Packard PCL code direct to an HP printer via LPT1 to print advertising layout page plans. The printer is attached directly...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: CBL_DEBUGBREAK
Hello mf-galberico, For Eclipse, the same concepts apply, but the way you enable the Just In Time debugging is different. Please see the following video, which covers this topic. Visual COBOL...
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