COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET: A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer

The following are some suggested supplemental references to further your retraining effort.

Books

Architecting Web Services, by William Oellermann (Apress, 2001):      http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=22. Moving to ASP.NET: Web Development with VB .NET, by Steve Harris and Rob Macdonald (Apress, 2002):      http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=78. User Interface Design for Programmers, by Joel Spolsky (Apress, 2001):      http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10. User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, by Matthew MacDonald (Apress, 2002):      http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=99.

Magazines

.NET Magazine :      http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/ MSDN Magazine :      http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/ MSDN Magazine, "Securely Implement Request Processing, Filtering, and Content Redirection with HTTP Pipelines in ASP.NET":      http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/09/HTTPPipelines/default.aspx Visual Studio Magazine :      http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/ Windows Developer Magazine :      http://www.wd-mag.com/ XML & Web Services Magazine :      http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/

Web Sites

.NET Architecture Center:       http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/ ASP.NET HTTP Modules and HTTP Handlers Overview (ISAPI type development):       http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q307985 Creating Windows Applications:       http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vboriCreatingStandaloneAppsVB.asp GotDotNet (.NET samples, tutorials, and information):      http://www.gotdotnet.com/ IBuySpy Store Application (sample application in COBOL .NET):      http://www.ibuyspycobol.com/ IBuySpy Store Application (sample application in VB .NET and C#):       http://www.ibuyspystore.com/ Intensity Software's NetCOBOL Samples (provided by Fujitsu Software and Intensity Software):       http://www.netcobolsamples.com/ Introduction to ASP.NET:       http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconintroductiontoasp.asp Introduction to Windows Service Applications:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vbconintroductiontontserviceapplications.asp Microsoft ASP.NET Home Page:      http://www.asp.net/ Microsoft Community (discussion groups, e-newsletters, and so forth):      http://communities2.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Patterns & Practices:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/ Microsoft TechNet How-To Web Site:      http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/howto Microsoft UDDI Business Registry Node:      http://uddi.microsoft.com/ MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com Specification Index for XML Web Services:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/ webservices /understanding/ specs /default.asp UDDI.org:       http://www.uddi.org/ Windows .NET Server 2003:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001691 XML Web Services Developer Center:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/