In Net Express, there was the Type Library Assistant that would generate the COBOL sources from COM Interfaces for selected components. This tool is not available in Visual COBOL. I do not know of any automated tool to do this conversion. We don't document the interface because Office applications are from Microsoft and not Micro Focus/OpenText. This is the same for something like SQL. We document the NX/VC specific items like OpenESQL but we do not document the SQL language.

If, instead of native code, you used .NET managed code for the Excel interface, there are a lot of C# examples and we do have a converter from C# to COBOL.

Chris, where can we found the converter from C# to cobol? Is it a component from Netexpress 5.x or Visual cobol?

cg

You can find it here:

C# to COBOL Converter | Application Modernization and Connectivity Marketplace (microfocus.com)

This converts from C# to Visual COBOL .NET managed COBOL code

Hi Chris, i have test the converter today, but the output in cobol is only "managed cobol" and not "normal cobol"

Or is ther a other converter available?

I specifically mentioned that the converter was for converting C# to .NET managed COBOL. I am not aware of any other converter that will convert other language examples to native OO syntax.