cobol-loans

Simple app in COBOL to use in modernization demos with GitHub Copilot. This is a very small sample and not intended for production use.

Requirements

• GitHub Copilot agent mode (as of Mar 28 2025, it's available in Visual Studio Code Insiders).

How to run

There's two ways of running this:

• Codespaces: open the project in GitHub Codespaces
• Local: clone the project and open it in Visual Studio Code. Then reopen in devcontainer.

Steps

1. Open the project in GitHub Codespaces or clone it and open it in Visual Studio Code.
2. Compile and run the COBOL program: make
3. Open GitHub Copilot, switch to agent mode and type the following prompt:

   Convert the loan.cob cobol program to .net 9. Create the .net required files in the newversion folder
   

4. Switch to the newversion folder and run the .net program: dotnet run