To Learn More

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