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

Advanced .NET Remoting in VB .NET, by Ingo Rammer (Apress, 2002):      http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=108 . Distributed .NET Programming in VB .NET, by Tom Barnaby (Apress, 2002):      http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=144 . Programming VB .NET: A Guide for Experienced Programmers, by Gary Cornell and Jonathan Morrison (Apress, 2001):      http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=20 .

Magazines

.NET Magazine:       http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/ MSDN Magazine:       http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/ MSDN Magazine: "Design and Develop Seamless Distributed Applications for the Common Language Runtime":       http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/10/NETRemoting/default.aspx Visual Studio Magazine:       http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/ Visual Studio Magazine: "Demystify .NET App Domains and Contexts":       http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/2002_02/magazine/ columns /blackbelt/ Windows Developer Magazine:       http://www.wd-mag.com/ XML & Web Services Magazine:       http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/

Web Sites

.NET 247 Guide: Enterprise Remoting:      http://www.dotnet247.com/247reference/guide/8.aspx .NET Architecture Center:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/ .NET Enterprise Servers Online Books:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/servers/books/default.asp .NET Remoting Overview:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconnetremotingoverview.asp .NET Remoting Security Solution, Part 1: Microsoft.Samples.Security.SSPI Assembly:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/remsspi.asp Creating Windows Applications:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vboriCreatingStandaloneAppsVB.asp DotNeteXtreme.com (.NET tips and articles):      http://www.dotnetextreme.com/default.asp EggHeadCafe.com Tips and Tricks (.NET tips and articles):      http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tipstricks.asp Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET:      http://www.netcobol.com/products/windows/netcobol.html GotDotNet:      http://www.gotdotnet.com/ GotDotNet: Backwards Breaking Changes from Version 1.0 to 1.1:      http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/Backwards1.0to1.1/default.aspx#00000106 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/ Implementing a Background Process in Visual Basic .NET:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet09272002.asp 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 Message Queuing (MSMQ):      http://www.microsoft.com/msmq/ Message Queuing Overview and Resources:      http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/techresources/appserv/MSMQ/MSMQ_Overview.asp Microsoft .NET Remoting: A Technical Overview:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/hawkremoting.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'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 Multithreading in Visual Basic .NET:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcn7/html/vaconThreadingInVisualBasic.asp NetCOBOL for .NET Training CDs:      http://www.netcobol.com/products/DotnetTrainingCD.htm Programming the Thread Pool in the .NET Framework:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/progthrepool.asp Remoting (samples):      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpsamples/html/remoting.asp XML Web Services Developer Center Home:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/ webservices / Using Threads:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchUsingThreads.asp Windows .NET Server 2003:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001691