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

Enterprise Reports Using VB 6.0 and VB .NET, by Carl Ganz, Jr. and Jon Kilburn (Apress, 2003):        http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=133 . Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, by Gary Cornell (Apress, 2001):        http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=130 .

Magazines

.NET Magazine:         http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/ Exchange & Outlook Magazine, DevX Newsletter (by Jim Minatel, Editor-in-Chief):         http://www.devx.com/free/newsletters/exo/exoed031601.asp 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 Enterprise Servers Online Books:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/servers/books/default.asp

About SMTP:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cdosys/html/_cdosys_about_smtp.asp Adobe Acrobat Reader Free Download:        http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Code Access Security Basics:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcodeaccesssecuritybasics.asp Collaboration Data Objects Roadmap:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncdsys/html/cdo_roadmap.asp Crystal Reports Architecture:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/crystlrf/html/crconcrystalreportsarchitecture.asp Crystal Reports Class Library:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/crystlrf/html/crlrfcrystalreportsclasslibrary.asp Crystal Reports Developer Zone:        http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/dev_zone/default.asp Crystal Reports Knowledge Base Articles:        http://support.crystaldecisions.com/library/kbase.asp Crystal Reports: The Visual Studio .NET Reporting Standard:        http://www.crystaldecisions.com/products/crystalreports/net/ GotDotNet:        http://www.gotdotnet.com/ Introduction to ASP.NET:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconintroductiontoasp.asp Microsoft ASP.NET Home Page:        http://www.asp.net/ Microsoft Community (discussion groups, e-newsletters, and so forth):        http://communities2.microsoft.com/ Microsoft Exchange Server:        http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/default.asp Microsoft's Search the Knowledge Base Web Site:        http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;EN-US;KBHOWTO Microsoft TechNet How-To Index:        http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/itsolutions/howto MSDN:        http://msdn.microsoft.com XML Web Services Developer Center Home:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/ webservices /