Apress - COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET - A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer

• Table of Contents
• BackCover
• COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET - A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer
• Foreword
  • Why Has COBOL Endured?
  • Change Is Natural
  • The Y2K " Noncrisis "
  • COBOL and Visual Basic on .NET: A Guide for the Reformed Mainframe Programmer
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Reviewer
  • About the Foreword Writer
  • Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • My Reasons for Going to the PDC Event
  • What This Book Covers
  • What This Book Does Not Cover
  • Supplemental References
  • Technical Requirements
  • About the Source Code
  • Who This Book Is For
• Part I: The Mainframe Paradigm Shift
  • Chapter 1: Your Future with COBOL
    • Why Software Vendors Care About Mainframe COBOL
    • Creating a New Standard for Mainframe COBOL
    • Mainframe COBOL: How Will It Look?
    • Your Reformation Has Begun
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 2: What Is .NET?
    • Putting the .NET Question into Perspective
    • Programming Essentials with a .NET Language
    • Accessing Data the .NET Way
    • Interfacing with the User Using .NET
    • Understanding Advanced .NET Technologies
    • Marketing and Planning for .NET
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 3: .NET Retraining Prerequisites, Part 1
    • Presenting a Historical View to Understand Our Future
    • Take a Reality Check
    • Building Blocks for Your .NET Training
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 4: .NET Retraining Prerequisites, Part 2
    • Object-Oriented Programming
    • Hypertext Markup Language
    • Client-Side Scripting Languages
    • Extensible Markup Language
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
• Part II: .NET Programming Essentials
  • Chapter 5: Inside the .NET Integrated Development Environment
    • Integrated Development Environments
    • Choosing Your .NET Language
    • Developing Your First .NET Programs
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 6: The Nuts and Bolts of .NET Programming
    • Taking a New Look at Old Programming Syntax
    • Examining Microsoft Intermediate Language
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 7: The .NET Framework
    • Dicing the .NET Framework
    • (Re)using the .NET Framework
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 8: The .NET Common Language Runtime
    • Understanding the Common Language Runtime
    • The Garbage Collector
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 9: Creating and Using Objects
    • The Origin of " the Object "
    • Finally, Value versus Reference Objects
    • Object Visibility and Availability
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
• Part III: Reading, Writing, and Describing Data
  • Chapter 10: A New Perspective Toward Data
    • A Basic View of Data: Files
    • An Extended View of Data: Data Repositories
    • A Meta View of Data: Metadata
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 11: Database Programming with .NET
    • SQL Server 2000: A .NET Enterprise Server
    • Database Programming with .NET
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 12: XML in a Managed Environment
    • XML and the .NET Dataset
    • An XML Namespace: System.Xml
    • The Other XML Namespaces
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
• Part IV: Interfacing and Interacting with the User
  • Chapter 13: Windows Forms, Web Forms, and No Forms
    • Developing with the User in Mind
    • Windows Development on .NET
    • ASP.NET Web Development
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 14: Adding Value to Your Interface
    • Making Your Windows Applications Informative
    • Making Your ASP.NET Applications Interactive
    • Adding Value with XML Web Services
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 15: Managing Cache and State for ASP.NET
    • Legacy CICS " State Management "
    • Preparation for Cache and State
    • Save Your Cache!
    • State for the Stateless Protocol
    • Other Types of " State Management "
    • User Interface for the Sample Applications
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 16: Reporting and Information Delivery
    • Using Crystal Reports for VS .NET
    • Electronic Report Delivery
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 17: Deploying Your .NET Application
    • Deployment Considerations
    • Automate with Microsoft Windows Installer 2.0
    • The Manual Approach: XCOPY or Copy
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
• Part V: Advanced .NET Technologies
  • Chapter 18: Configuration for .NET Applications
    • Configuration with Directives
    • Configuration with Custom Attributes
    • Configuration with XML-Based Files
    • Configuration with Configuration Namespaces
    • Configuring for Code Access Security
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 19: Using Enterprise Services (COM+)
    • What Is COM+?
    • Creating a Serviced Component
    • Introducing Your Serviced Component to COM+
    • Using Your Serviced Component
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Chapter 20: Developing for the Enterprise
    • Distributed, Asynchronous, and Concurrent Application Models
    • Revisiting Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)
    • Asynchronous Processing
    • .NET Remoting
    • Introducing Multithreading
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
• Part VI: Appendixes
  • Appendix A: Debugging and Testing
    • Debugging
    • Testing
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Appendix B: A Sharp Primer: C# and J#
    • Introducing Visual C# .NET
    • Introducing Visual J# .NET
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Appendix C: Religion, Landmines, and Distractions
    • Distractions: Been There, Done That
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
  • Appendix D: Fujitsu's NetCOBOL for .NET
    • Product Features
    • Product Documentation
    • Summary
    • To Learn More
• Index
  • Index_A
  • Index_B
  • Index_C
  • Index_D
  • Index_E
  • Index_F
  • Index_G
  • Index_H
  • Index_I
  • Index_J
  • Index_K
  • Index_L
  • Index_M
  • Index_N
  • Index_O
  • Index_P
  • Index_Q
  • Index_R
  • Index_S
  • Index_T
  • Index_U
  • Index_V
  • Index_W
  • Index_X
  • Index_Z
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Listings
• List of Sidebars