.NET Rocks!

Vishwas Lele talks about thinking of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server as an application platform for .NET development. With all of the power and flexibility of MOSS, it can no longer be categorized simply as a web portal.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Michael Dunn tells Carl and Richard about Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 which has incorporated Live Communication Server with Speech Server. Speech Server is one of the key development elements of OCS, providing the ability for .NET developers to build applications that can both speak and understand speech with minimal coding.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jon Harrop introduces Carl and Richard to F#, a functional language that runs under the CLR. F# performs like C#, but being a functional language, has interactive scripting (similar to Python) but is rooted in the strong type inference and safety that other functional languages like ML focus on. Being in the CLR means you can build certain parts of your application in F# and then reference them from other languages, the same way VB.NET and C# interoperate.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Remi Caron, one of the organizers of the SDC conference in the Netherlands, tells Richard and Carl how using standard toolsets and software packages helps him stay focused on his customers' software problems and deliver more powerful solutions faster.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Donald Farmer talks about data mining with SQL Server and related technologies, including a fascinating discussion about using algorithms for predicting future trends.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Udi Dahan calls in from Israel to talk common sense about SOA. His pragmatic approach to the topic is refreshing and timely.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to David Hayden about the new features of the Microsoft Enterprise Library 3Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his work with Subtext (a derivative of the .Text blog software package) and his work on various open source projects.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Anand Raman and David Wright about Sandcastle, an internal tool for generating code documentation that is now available to the general public.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dan Ciruli of Digipede Technologies is back to bring us up to date with Digipede Networks, a .NET toolset for enabling grid computing.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Shawn Wildermuth talks to Richard and Carl about Silverlight from the .NET developer's persepective.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard discuss with Marcus his new product Xiine, a next gen digital reading platform, DRM and the current state of publishing.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Nick Landry from Infusion calls in to discuss his experiences with (and knowledge of) the somewhat new Microsoft Robotics Studio.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Miguel de Icaza is back to tell us what's new with the Mono project, an open source implementation of the .NET Framework based on FreeBSD with support for Windows, Mac, and Linux.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

John Lam talks to Carl and Richard about his trek from Canada to Redmond, and his work on dynamic languages, including Ruby CLR, and the Microsoft DLR (Dynamic Language Runtime), which we may find in some future version of the .NET Framework.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rocky talks about CSLA 3.0, the relationship with WPF and Silverlight, "paranoid" code, pblishing and his experience with ebooks.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In the last of the content from TechEd 2007 Carl and Richard host a panel on Identity issues with Ani Babaian, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Scott Golightly, and Richard Turner.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Roger Sessions talks to Carl and Richard about enterprise architecture, with a focus on dealing with software complexity.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Another great panel discussion from TechEd 2007! Carl and Richard talk to a panel of experts about various topics around VSTS and team development focusing on team challenges.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Don Box and Chris Sells talk to Carl and Richard about a myriad of things including the state of publishing, especially books.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk with members of the Microsoft Acropolis team at TechEd 2007. Acropolis is a software factory-ish toolset that allows business developers to develop quality line-of-business WPF applications with ease.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Pollack is back to talk about the latest version of Spring.NET, a frawmeowrk for extending the capabilities of the .NET Framework modeled after the Java-based Spring framework.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Recorded at the Virtual TechEd Stage, Carl and Richard welcome Stephen Forte, Kent Alstad, Rob Howard, and Steve Smith for a lively discussion around ASP.NET Scalability issues.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Christophe Wille talks about SharpDevelop, an open-source free alternative to Visual Studio.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Scott Stanfield from Vertigo Software is back (see show #11) to talk about cultivating an aesthetic sense around software, media, and user experience.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard interview Peter Kuhn from the Scripps Institute about an application he designed to allow cancer researchers to visualize molecules and annotate them with real time collaboration. The application was written with beta versions of WPF, and champoined by Tim Huckaby's team at Interknowlogy and evangelized by Eileen Rumwell and Stephen Forte. This is an amazing success story.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk with Frans Bouma, author of LLBLGen, a very popular ORM modeling and code generation tool for .NETSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk with Nick Benton and Claudio Russo from Microsoft Research UK about Polyphonic C# (now part of C-Omega) which adds asynchronous concurrency abstractions to the language.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ted Neward and Oren Eini agreed to discuss Object Relational Mapping practices at DevTeach in Montreal, Quebec May 16, 2007. This is a slightly longer show than usual, but we think you'll agree it was worth it.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rob McGovern from Infusion talks about the extremely cool Virtual Earth SDK: business cases, features, and how-to.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Eric Sink is back, this time with Martin Woodward to chat about Source Control systems and Continuous Integration.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rustan Leino discusses with Carl and Richard the features and functionality of the Spec # programming language.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Eric Evans offers his insights on good software development using Domain Driven Design techniques.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

David Barkol, Alessandro Gallo, and Rama Krishna Vavilala talk about ASP.NET AJAX, and thier upcoming book ASP.NET AJAX in Action from Manning Publications.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Frank Savage from the XNA team discusses the coolness that is XNA Game Studio Express! He also waxes poetic about his days on the Strike Commander and Wing Commander 3 teams, as well as more recent endeavors. Awesome show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brad Abrams from the .NET Framework team is here to announce Silverlight, painting a picture of the near future as a rich media web experience. Don't miss it!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jeff Atwood from codinghorror.com tells Carl and Richard what's on his mind, including his recommended reading list, and above all the human side of software development.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard speak with Fred Chong about SaaS (Software as a Service) from the basic concepts to issues of appropriateness to products like HR and LitWare.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ex-ASP.NET Team Member turned businessman Rob Howard tells us what he's been up to with Community Server, CodeSmith Tools, and a few other projects. As always, Rob has some great stories.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rick Brewster, the lead developer of Paint.NET, discusses the open-source paint program from the beginning to the present and into the future. It's a great story, and a great project!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Bret Updegraf shares his knowledge of SQL Reporting Services with Carl and Richard in this show. Bret is the author of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services in Action from Manning Publishing.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Graphics guru and WPF wonk Dax Pandhi shares his thoughts on WPF, WPF/e, Expression suite in general, and Blend in particular. You'll hear the story of how Dax came to be the Pwop graphics guy as well as his contributions to the WPF community.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk about the ADO.NET Entity Framework, a new ORM technology from Microsoft, with Daniel Simmons, a dev lead on ADO.NET at Microsoft.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard catch up with Dan Appleman at Devconnections in Orlando. The big topic is the discoverability of pertinent information through search engines. His solution? You'll have to listen to find out.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Oren Eini, creator of Rhino Mocks, reprises his DNR tv appearance with discussions on the effectiveness and power of NHibernate, coding advantages and the joys of authoring open source work.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Bill Wagner is back to talk about C# with topics from his best-selling book, Effective C#. Bill is a multi-faceted developer, however, and the conversation turned to topics like community. Great stuff.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Michele checks in with Carl and Richard on the state of WCF. Not to be missed!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The always brilliant and delightful Kate Gregory talks with Carl and Richard about her passion, which is managed C++, as well as Vista, UAC and other things geekish.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jack Greenfield talks about software factories, or software that builds software. The conceptual and practical aspects of the future of software development, and implications for developers are discussed.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Shaun Walker is back to talk about advances in DotNetNuke, his incredible open-source ASP.NET framework. .NET Nuke has been an increasingly popular option for development of ASP.NET sites and applications ever since it arrived on the scene in the early days of .NET.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations