Rick Malek's contributions

In this article, you will learn about data access with ADO.NET in Micro Focus Visual COBOL.

In this article you will learn about calling managed COBOL from un-managed COBOL with Micro Focus Visual COBOL.

Learn how to enable duplex printing in Micro Focus Visual COBOL for .NET using PrintDocument and PrinterSettings.

In this article you will learn how to add cultural information to the DateTimePicker in Micro Focus Visual COBOL for .NET.

Working with the DateTimePicker in Micro Focus Visual COBOL for .NET.

In this article you will learn how to access COBOL Data Groups in .NET.

This article reviews the common properties of the CheckBox control. These are the name, text, checked and checkstate properties. We’ll also review the use of events associated with a CheckBox.

This article is about the DateTimePicker control. Our examples will focus on a single control. We’ll show you how to manipulate the properties of that control programmatically. We may have to include one additional control but the focus on each project will be on a single control with a supporting role for the additional control.

Learn how to use TextBox and MaskedTextBox controls in Micro Focus Visual COBOL WinForms, including key properties, input masks, and moving input into COBOL PIC fields.

Micro Focus released Visual COBOL R4 earlier this year and it has turned out to be an awesome addition to Visual Studio 2010. The development teams have done a great job in delivering a very usable product.

Our examples will focus on a single control. We’ll show you how to manipulate the properties of that control programmatically.

The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with an example of how to read the RM file system from a native COBOL program and have it display on a managed WinForm.

The purpose of this article is to provide the reader with an example of how to read and set environment variables from within a managed COBOL environment. We will utilize a WinForm to provide our user interaction.

Let's start by taking a look at a simple and pretty standard COBOL way of handling exceptions. We’ll then see how that same example would be coding in a managed environment utilizing Visual COBOL.NET.

Beginning with this article all projects will be created using the Micro Focus Visual COBOL environment.

In this article you will learn how to use ListView controls in .NET.

In this article I will show how to work with the TreeView object and ListView object.

In another article we discussed the use of creating a COBOL interface class to interact between your existing COBOL applications and the languages in the .NET Framework. This article will review a new option for exposing those assets via the use of Properties.

. This article is intended to be used as a model for you to follow when you run into a C# example and need to convert it to COBOL.

Learn how to refine a COBOL Windows Forms application by showing and hiding controls, resetting fields, setting focus, aligning numeric input, and configuring tab order.

We've done numerous articles on how to interface COBOL with other .NET languages. Here is something a little different, creating a form using only COBOL. This is part 1 or the article and it will cover creating the form, adding controls and enabling them and calling .NET classes. Part 2 will show you how to make things disappear!

COBOL programmers have used data groups to package data together for a long time. How though does a non-COBOL user access the data being used by the COBOL programs?

Last month we had an article describing how C# could a COBOL class. Well this month we present a user provided example of COBOL calling C#!