Micro Focus Visual COBOL Personal Edition for Visual Studio 2.2

Micro Focus Visual COBOL Personal Edition for Visual Studio is a free, non-commercial edition that brings modern COBOL development into the Microsoft Visual Studio environment. It’s designed for learning, experimentation, and evaluation, giving students, hobbyists, and teams exploring modernization a familiar IDE to edit, build, and debug COBOL applications.

Key capabilities:

• Rich COBOL editing with syntax highlighting, code completion, and object-oriented COBOL support
• Project templates for native and .NET targets, with interoperability to call and be called by C# and other .NET languages
• Visual Studio debugging features, including breakpoints, watches, and step-through execution—even across mixed-language code
• Integration with standard Visual Studio workflows such as solution management, MSBuild-based builds, and source control
• Tools and samples to help import existing COBOL code and explore modernization paths

Note: The Personal Edition is intended for education and evaluation and typically excludes production use and some enterprise features available in paid editions. Always review the current license terms for details.

Micro Focus Visual COBOL Personal Edition for Visual Studio is developed by Micro Focus and is used by 1 user of Software Informer. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 2.1 and 2.2. The name of the program executable file is mfdevenv.exe.

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