To Learn More

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

Books

Architecting Web Services, by William Oellermann (Apress, 2001):
   http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=22.
Moving to ASP.NET: Web Development with VB .NET, by Steve Harris and Rob
Macdonald (Apress, 2002):
   http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=78.
User Interfaces in VB .NET: Windows Forms and Custom Controls, by Matthew
MacDonald (Apress, 2002):
   http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=99.

Magazines

.NET Magazine:
   http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/
MSDN Magazine:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/
Visual Studio Magazine:
   http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/
Windows Developer Magazine:
   http://www.wd-mag.com/
XML & Web Services Magazine:
   http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/

Web Sites

.NET Architecture Center:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/
Amazon.com Web services developer's kit:
   http://associates.amazon.com/ exec /panama/ associates /join/developer/kit.html
ASP.NET Syntax:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/gnconaspnetsyntax.asp
Building User-Centric Experiences with .NET Services:
   http://www.microsoft.com/netservices/userexperiences.asp
Creating Windows Applications:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vbcon/html/vboriCreatingStandaloneAppsVB.asp
Dr. GUI .NET #7: Conway's Game of Life as a Windows Forms Application:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnguinet/html/drguinet7_update.asp
Google Web APIs developer's kit:
   http://www.google.com/apis/download.html
GotDotNet:
   http://www.gotdotnet.com/
Introduction to ASP.NET:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconintroductiontoasp.asp
MapPoint .NET XML Web Service:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/
Default.asp?contentid=28001402
Microsoft .NET Alerts:
   http://www.microsoft.com/netservices/alerts/default.asp
Microsoft .NET Enterprise Servers (Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Web Services Toolkit):
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/topic.asp?URL=/MSDN-FILES/028/001/187/topic.xml
Microsoft .NET Messenger Service APIs:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn-files/028/001/359/topic.xml
Microsoft .NET Passport Software Development Kit:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn-files/028/000/123/topic.xml
Microsoft ASP.NET Home Page:
   http://www.asp.net/
Microsoft Community (discussion groups, e-newsletters, and so forth):
   http://communities2.microsoft.com/
Microsoft Office XP Web Services Toolkit 2.0:
   http://www.msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnxpwst2/html/odc_offxpwstoolkit2.asp
Microsoft Patterns & Practices:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/practices/
Microsoft Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration .NET Software
Development Kit (UDDI .NET SDK):
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/topic.asp?url=/msdn-files/028/000/123/topic.xml
MSDN:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com
NetCOBOL Samples (provided by Fujitsu Software and Intensity Software):
   http://www.netcobolsamples.com/
Web Services Enhancements for Microsoft .NET:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/ webservices /building/wse/default.aspx
Windows .NET Server 2003:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/nhp/default.asp?contentid=28001691
XML Web Services Developer Center:
   http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservices/