Internet Connection required?

[paulseawind_gmail_co]

I have Visual Cobol Personal Edition

I had an Internet outage on my Win/8 laptop and could not open Project1 (I am trying to 'get started' with this product)

Once the connection was made true again, I could open Project1

Why is that?

[Fano_MF]

Hello Paul,

Which COBOL template did you create your project with? And did you create the project on your local drive?

Regards,

[paulseawind_gmail_co]

Hi, and thanks for your contact

I do not recall using a COBOL template to create Project1

I think it was the supplied Project for a demo?

It resides in C:\Users\Paul\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Projects\Project1\Project1

[paulseawind_gmail_co · Accepted solution]

Mystery explained.  I had not yet activated the product on that laptop.  When I went to progress through to loading source code, there was a window that popped up behind the one I was in.  When I found that I was able to complete activation and then was taken to a 'skeleton' source code example/sample.  It has nothing to do with being connected to the 'net or not.

Now that I am moving along, I find I can dbl-clk source code and Visual COBOL starts up and I am able to edit.

Thanks again for helping me think about this.