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

GDI+ Programming in C# and VB .NET, by Nick Symmonds (Apress, 2002):      http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=107. Object-Oriented Macromedia Flash MX, by William Drol (Apress, 2002):       http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=84.

Magazines

.NET Magazine:      http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/ Exchange & Outlook Magazine, DevX Newsletter (by Jim Minatel, Editor-in-Chief):      http://www.devx.com/free/newsletters/exo/exoed031601.asp Visual Studio Magazine:      http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/ XML & Web Services Magazine:      http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/

Web Sites

Choosing Among File I/O Options in Visual Basic .NET:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dv_vstechart/html/vbtchUseFileStreamObject.asp Collaboration Data Objects Roadmap:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dncdsys/html/cdo_roadmap.asp Drawing and Editing Images (using GDI+):      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpcondrawingeditingimages.asp Fujitsu NetCOBOL for .NET (the product I use when discussing COBOL .NET):      http://www.netcobol.com/products/ windows /netcobol.html Microsoft Communities (discussion groups, e-Newsletters, and so forth):      http://communities2.microsoft.com Microsoft Exchange Server:      http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/default.asp Microsoft Exchange Software Development Kit:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wss/wss/_exch2k_welcome_to_exchange.asp Microsoft SharePoint Technologies:      http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/ MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com SharePoint Portal Server Software Development Kit:      http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/downloads/tools/SDK.asp Types of Bitmaps (image file format):      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/_gdiplus_types_of_bitmaps_about.asp Web Storage System Schema Usage and Best Practice Guide:      http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnmes2k/html/wssschemause.asp