This COBOL Development system is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio. You use the Microsoft Visual Studio Integrated Development
Environment to develop, build and debug COBOL applications, as either native COBOL or
.NET COBOL.
Differences between Visual COBOL and Earlier Micro Focus Products COBOL applications developed and built using previous Micro Focus IDEs, such as Net Express or Server Express, can now be developed and built with Visual COBOL. However there are some differences in behavior and in terminology, which are described here.