Micro Focus Visual COBOL™ R2 is the market-leading COBOL development environment for extending core business processes to Windows, .NET and other distributed platforms. Visual COBOL R2 combines powerful COBOL 2010 features from the world’s leading COBOL company with the world’s most powerful development environment, Visual Studio 2010.

Micro Focus has used the new extensibility options included in Visual Studio 2010 to enhance the editor to recognise the particular structure of COBOL programs, support the latest .NET frameworks and provide richer COBOL debugging support. With COBOL as a first class language in Visual Studio 2010, the new tools provided by the IDE are available to COBOL programmers such as Test Impact reports. In parallel, Micro Focus has continued to enhance the COBOL language, making it even easier to use for .NET applications.