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.

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

.NET Framework Developer's Guide's "What is the Common Language Specification?":        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconwhatiscommonlanguagespecification.asp ILDasm Tutorial:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cptutorials/html/il_dasm_tutorial.asp Microsoft Communities (discussion groups, e-Newsletters, and so forth):        http://communities2.microsoft.com MSDN:        http://msdn.microsoft.com