After much talk about OO COBOL, as it were, I finally decided I would spend a bit of money to try it out. I bought Micro Focus Net Express 5.0 'University Edition'. Technically, I got 'Net Express 5.0 University Edition and Visual Studio* Software and Book Shipment Non-Student'. This includes: Micro Focus Net Express 5.0 Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 the book 'COBOL and.NET, second edition' Total cost: $194.00 All in all not too bad, I guess. Especially considering that buying just Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition directly from Microsoft costs $299! Firmware Fritzbox 7170 Version 10.0 more. Not sure how MF swung that deal.:-) Anyway, I've only had it a few days and I'm fairly happy.

Documentation could be better. The first few days I've been working with VS and the. Avery Template 5468 Hawk. NET environment, because I was already familiar with it from using Visual C# Express Edition and Visual C++ Express Edition. Haven't come upon any real issues there that I can think of at the moment.