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/ MSDN Magazine, "A Quick Guide to XML Schema, Part 1":        http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/04/xml/xml0204.asp MSDN Magazine, "A Quick Guide to XML Schema, Part 2":        http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/07/XMLFiles/default.asp MSDN Magazine, article index for the "XML Files" series of articles:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/find/default.aspx?type=Ti&phrase=XML%20Files: MSDN Magazine, "Run-time Serialization":        http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/02/04/net/net0204.asp Visual Studio Magazine:        http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/ XML & Web Services Magazine:        http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/

Web Sites

Microsoft Community (discussion groups, e-newsletters, and so forth):        http://communities2.microsoft.com/ MSDN:        http://msdn.microsoft.com Roadmap for XML in the .NET Framework:        http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q314150 Roadmap for XML Serialization in the .NET Framework:        http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q314150 SQLXML and XML Mapping Technologies (includes a link to the free SQLXML 3.0 SP1 download):        http://msdn.microsoft.com/sqlxml A Survey of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 XML Features:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnexxml/html/xml07162001.asp Visual Studio .NET's XML Designer:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vburfXMLSchemaDesigner.asp W3C Extensible Markup Language (XML):        http://www.w3.org/XML/ XML Core: http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/xml XML Information Set (Infoset) Recommendation:        http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/ XML Schema Part 0: Primer (includes links to Part 1: Structures and Part 2: Datatypes):        http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/ XML Tutorial:        http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/xmlsdk30/htm/xmtutxmltutorial.asp