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

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

Books

Software Development on a Leash, by David C. Birmingham and Valerie Haynes Perry (Apress, 2002):      http://www.apress.com/catalog/book/1893115917/

Magazines

.NET Magazine:      http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/ Visual Studio Magazine:      http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/ XML & Web Services Magazine:      http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/

Web Sites

American National Standards Institute (ANSI):      http://www.ansi.org/ Cobol Portal:      http://www.cobolportal.com/developer/ Cobol Standards (and the J4 committee):      http://www.cobolstandards.com/ InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS):      http://www.x3.org/incits/ International Organization for Standardization (ISO):      http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN):      http://msdn.microsoft.com/ Rapid Application Development for the Server:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/technical/articles/radserver.asp Windows XP Home Page:      http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/default.asp