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Method Chaining

spgennard — Thu, 27 May 2010 23:50:09 +0000

Creating objects with a complex constructor can be a bit of a pain in any language. One technique I have used is method chaining. It is not applicable to every type of class but it can be useful. Method chain …

Visual COBOL @ Microsoft Teched

spgennard — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:23:17 +0000

The last couple of weeks have been very busy and it has unfortunately affected the amount of blog entries I have done but the good news I have plenty of new material.. So, what’s my excuse.. Well we have been …

Reflection and COBOL

spgennard — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:56:01 +0000

For the last couple of months I have working on Visual Studio 2010 and this include Microsoft CLR v4 and I was recently asked how to write a test that determines at runtime which CLR is being used and what …

A Comparison Of .Net COBOL, Visual Basic and C#

spgennard — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:35:44 +0000

Today my collegues Robert and Alex have finally decided to publish a document that compares Visual Basic, C# and COBOL for .Net under The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 License. Rather than doing a cut-paste job, here is a quote from …

Free compiler for non-commercial use.

spgennard — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:38:25 +0000

If you are interested in trying out some of my examples with a modern COBOL compiler.. let me give you a quote from a friend. From: Twitter “

Factory Method Pattern in COBOL

spgennard — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:49:24 +0000

Continuing my series on design patterns for the COBOL, the next one on my list is the “Factory method” pattern. The pattern is useful, as it helps you hide the real implementation/creation mechanism of your classes. I you are fond …