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 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/ 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/ Amazon.com Web services developer's kit:    http://associates.amazon.com/ exec /panama/ associates /join/developer/kit.html ASP.NET Syntax:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/gnconaspnetsyntax.asp Building User-Centric Experiences with .NET Services:    http://www.microsoft.com/netservices/userexperiences.asp Creating Windows Applications:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vboriCreatingStandaloneAppsVB.asp Dr. GUI .NET #7: Conway's Game of Life as a Windows Forms Application:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnguinet/html/drguinet7_update.asp Google Web APIs developer's kit:    http://www.google.com/apis/download.html GotDotNet:    http://www.gotdotnet.com/ Introduction to ASP.NET:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconintroductiontoasp.asp MapPoint .NET XML Web Service:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/ Default.asp?contentid=28001402 Microsoft .NET Alerts:    http://www.microsoft.com/netservices/alerts/default.asp Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers (Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Web Services Toolkit):    http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/topic.asp?URL=/MSDN-FILES/028/001/187/topic.xml Microsoft .NET Messenger Service APIs:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn-files/028/001/359/topic.xml Microsoft .NET Passport Software Development Kit:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn-files/028/000/123/topic.xml Microsoft ASP.NET Home Page:    http://www.asp.net/ Microsoft Community (discussion groups, e-newsletters, and so forth):    http://communities2.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0:    http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnxpwst2/html/odc_offxpwstoolkit2.asp Microsoft Patterns & Practices:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/ Microsoft Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration .NET Software Development Kit (UDDI .NET SDK):    http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn-files/028/000/123/topic.xml MSDN:    http://msdn.microsoft.com NetCOBOL Samples (provided by Fujitsu Software and Intensity Software):    http://www.netcobolsamples.com/ Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET:    http://msdn.microsoft.com/ webservices /building/wse/default.aspx 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/