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

Visual Basic .NET or C#? Which to Choose? , by Dan Appleman (Desaware, 2002):      http://desaware.com/Ebook2L2.htm .

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

Automation Samples for Visual Studio .NET:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/automation.asp Microsoft .NET Language Partners :      http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/partners/language/default.asp Microsoft Community (discussion groups, e-newsletters, and so forth):      http://communities2.microsoft.com/ MSDN:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/ NetCOBOL for .NET:      http://www.netcobol.com/products/ windows /netcobol.html Visual Studio .NET home page:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/default.asp