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

Regular Expressions with .NET (e-book), by Dan Appleman (Desaware, 2002):      http://desaware.com/Ebook3L2.htm. Visual Basic.NET or C#? Which to Choose? (e-book), by Dan Appleman (Desaware, 2002):      http://desaware.com/Ebook2L2.htm .

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/ .NET Framework Regular Expressions:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconcomregularexpressions.asp Compare Microsoft .NET to J2EE Technology:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/compare/default.asp GotDotNet: Backwards Breaking Changes from Version 1.0 to 1.1:      http://www.gotdotnet.com/team/changeinfo/Backwards1.0to1.1/default.aspx#00000106 Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE):      http://java.sun.com/j2ee/ JavaScript Developer Central (Netscape):      http://devedge.netscape.com/central/javascript/ 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 "Netscape and Sun Announce JavaScript" (press release):      http://java.sun.com/pr/1995/12/pr951204-03.html Vnunet.com: "Sun may lose war by winning Java battle" (article):      http://www.vnunet.com/News/1137515 WebSphere Developer Domain:      http://www7b.software.ibm.com/wsdd/ Windows .NET Server 2003:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001691 Windows Script:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/Default.asp?contentid=28001169