The following are some suggested supplemental references to further your retraining effort.
Software Development on a Leash, by David C. Birmingham and Valerie Haynes Perry (Apress, 2002):
http://www.apress.com/catalog/book/1893115917/.
.NET Magazine:
http://www.fawcette.com/dotnetmag/
Visual Studio Magazine:
http://www.fawcette.com/vsm/
XML & Web Services Magazine:
http://www.fawcette.com/xmlmag/
Dr. GUI .NET #5: Strings in the .NET Framework:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnguinet/html/drguinet5_update.asp
Dr. GUI .NET #6: Arrays in the .NET Framework:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnguinet/html/drguinet6_update.asp
Microsoft Community (discussion groups, e-newsletters, and so forth):
http://communities2.microsoft.com/
MSDN:
http://msdn.microsoft.com
Visual Basic Attributes for the Dim Statement (scope/visibility):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vblr7/html/vastmDim.asp
Visual Basic Attributes for the Sub Statement (availability):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vblr7/html/vastmSub.asp
Visual Studio Language Equivalents (translation between .NET languages):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vsintro7/html/vxgrfLanguageEquivalents.asp