How to reference on cobol projects without compiler?

Question

Is it possible to make different Configuration of one project one with and other without a installed cobol compiler?

I have a big project general written in VB.Net with some underprojects written in cobol. Is it possible to create different Configs like "DebugVB" for the VB-Programmers and "DebugCob" for the cobol cracks?

I think of a project reference for the cobol solution. And just a reference to the coboll .dlls for the vb one.

The target is to eliminate the need for a cobol compiler for the VB-Coders.

Is that possible in a solution?

Finally, excuse my bad english. It´s not my motherlanguage ;)

Greetz DocSnuggels

Answer 1

OK... Managed it some time ago by myself.

When you use conditional constructs like in

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1872553/msbuild-conditional-construct-project-reference-file-reference

mentioned, and use different configurations you eliminate the need for a cobol compiler on every working maschine.

Saved some bucks! Yeah!