.NET Rocks!

Get some deep insight into the tools and the techniques that make Test Driven Development an important new tool for developers.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Pat Hynds checks in with us to talk ASP.NET security sharing his latest insights and telling stories from the field. As always, Pat brings his post-GI point of view to the conversation, which is always enjoyable.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard have an engaging conversation with Joe Duffy from the CLR team on dealing with concurrency in multi-threaded applications. Buy his books! This is great stuff!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Our old friend Nickolas Landry talks about the latest developments in mobile technology, both hardware and software, including Windows Mobile 5.0 and the Compact Framework 2.0Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brian Noyes talks us through data binding in .NET 2.0 from the gee-whiz draggy droppy stuff to multi-tier enterprise applications.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Regional Director Barry Gervin introduces LINQ, a nascent set of language extentions providing query services for list-based objects.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Steven Forte shares his experiences with outsourcing and the different countries involved in software outsourcing. Of course, his stories are second to none.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Dunn joins Carl and Richard in the studio for another look at Infopath, framed for .NET developers. Mark, as you may remember, is the first co-host of .NET Rocks! and a good friend of the show.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Australian Regional Director Adam Cogan is known for his rules. In fact, if you work for his software company you can expect to get up every morning at 6AM for exercises. You'll also have to digest hundreds and hundreds of best practices and rules that he has compiled from his many years in the software business. In this show we point you to the rules, and even discuss a few of them. Not to be missed.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell interview Shawn Wildermuth about his experiences in the trenches with ADO.NET. He's down on datasources as a one-size-fits-all solution to data access. He talks about his upcoming book in which he attempts to organize projects into archetypes, and helps the reader determine which archetype thier project is closest to, so he can give his recommendations.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris Sells rings in the new year by telling us about his current passion, Model-Driven Development (MDD) and associated concepts. Oh yeah, we also talk about big honkin' plasma TVs. Chris asks "what should I get?" Richard sets him straight.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

David Smith talks to Richard and Carl about btSharp, his .NET implementation of the BitTorrent protocol written in C#. He also gives a great introduction to BitTorrent and how it works, and offers some insight on how IPv6 will make our lives easier.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Andrew Brust talks to us about OLAP and BI, specifically about the new features of SQL Server 2005.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Deborah Kurata; star of stage, screen, and print; gives us the good, the bad, and the ugly about object binding, and covers other topics such as typed datasets, migration issues, and code generation. This is our first normal show since we've been back from our travels, and we have a few things to talk about ourselves.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Only a week after returning from a 30-day trip through the interior of the American heartland, we found ourselves in Merry Old England speaking at and attending the VBUG Winter Conference. Carl moderated a Code-Off in which four developers each created a user interface for a system of web services, each using a different technology. They then showed off those applications in a very small window of time. Immediately following this, we interviewed them in front of the audience. We also spoke one-on-one to Graham Parker, one of the code-off developers, about VBUG and the UK .NET community.Note: The sound is a bit off during this show because we didn't have control over the audio. :-)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Before we went on the road we spoke to Mark Miller about component-oriented architecture and other related topics. We wanted to finish what we started with Mark, and move on to Graphics programming, especially in the DXCore, a free component toolkit from Developer Express that CodeRush and Refactor use extensively.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Well we finally got to San Francisco to the very first Visual Studio 2005 launch event. We walked around and found some old friends to talk to.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The road trip is finishing up! This is the last show before the launch.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

San Diego is home to a handful of thriving .NET developer communities. We ran into some old friends there, and got some great stories.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We met up with Regional Director J. Michael Palermo and a cast of other characters in Phoenix, Arizona. It's hot, but .... well... you know.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We spent the weekend in Austin, Texas. Although it was a small crowd at the University, we got to speak to 8 developers including Jeff Palermo, Scott Bellware, and Mark Miller.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

There was a big crowd at the Houston event. We had a great time talking to the locals after the show. Markus Egger showed up and managed to sit behind the microphone for a few minutes too.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dallas was great. For the second time in a row we didn't have to eat Pizza for dinner. One of the attendees told me (Carl) after the show that I had "no fear" to be able to get up in front of people and sing Clementine like... well... you know.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In round 11 of the Road Trip, we got to have some real Memphis barbeque AND hang out with the one and only Jon Box. Does it get any better than this???Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Nashville was a fun town. Never seen a crowd of geeks sing Clementine to Beethoven's 9th before. It was awesome.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Our longest road trip show yet! Mark Dunn, Rory Blyth, and a host of locals contribute to the show.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

(Problem with incomplete files fixed) This is a great episode of DNR, recorded at the road trip tour in Raleigh, North Carolina!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Our stop in Washington DC was great. We got to meet some old friends, fans new and old, and speak at the coveted Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA; which is as cool as - or cooler than - the Boston and New York locations.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

At the Baltimore event we got to talk to a wide variety of developers using .NET.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We were in Philadelphia, PA on Monday night, October 17th, speaking to a group organized by the Philly .NET User Group.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The Road Trip event in Edison New Jersey brought out DonXML, Miguel Castro, ScottW, and lots of other great speakers and members of the .NET community in the Edison, NJ area.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The New York City .NET Users Group hosted the Road Trip event at Microsoft in midtown Manhattan, and what a great time we had!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Now we're in full swing! We had a great event in Farmington, CT at the Connecticut .NET User Group, and got to talk to a handful of innovative members of the .NET community. I hope that all the road trip shows are this good!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

It's not much, but it's our first podcast from the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2005 Road Trip event in Waltham, Massachusetts on the outskirts of Boston. We'll be trying to post a show every day of the month-long Road Trip.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Miller gets down and dirty with real tactics for solving problems and maximizing your efficiency as an architect and developer. Not to be missed.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard run into Miguel Castro at a hotel bar at the MVP Summit 2005 in Bellevue, WA. This is the first real show we've done on Web Controls, and it has been a long time coming. There is so much technical information in this show you'll have to listen several times at possibly a slower speed.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard interview three members of the Visual Basic team at PDC 2005. The conversation turns from favorite features of VB 2005 to LINQ to XML in VB.2005 to Orcas, best and worst moments on the VB team. We are also treated to a short after-dinner converation with Ted Pattison, George Bullock, Joe Hummel, and David Chappell.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In this episode, Carl and Richard get an hour with David Treadwell, VP of the .NET Framework Developer Division. David talks about his career at Microsoft from being the intern developer on Windows NT to his current role on the .NET Framework team, and offers his thoughts on the future of Windows and managed code.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jackie Goldstein returns to talk about the ADO.NET, the data tools in Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL 2005 Express and the starter kits he's been authoring for it.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Joel Semeniuk gets us deeper into Visual Studio Team System by taking us step-by-step through the process of how it is used in the real world. Each designer is discussed in as much detail as an hour affords. For introductory information about VSTS, see show #117.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Regional Director J. Michael Palermo discusses his current passion, Code Snippets in VS 2005. You'll discover how this new feature compares to tools you may have already used, and you'll probably pick up a few productivity pointers along the way. Good stuff!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

DNR goes back to its geek roots this week with a technical talk about the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Joel and Brad talk about what they would do differently knowing what they know now, how the CLR's memory managemnet strategy was formed, and their favorite features of CLR 2.0Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The listeners have asked for more technical content, and Rocky Lhotka delivers it! In this episode, Rocky talks about CSLA.NET and the changes for VS2005. He drills down into the details of some aspects of CSLA, and talks about his opinions on Service Oriented Architechture and Objects, and plenty more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jeffrey talks about his experiences listening to .NET Rocks! while on duty with the Army Reserve in Iraq, and shares his ideas about architecture, ASP.NET, XHTML, CSS, and other things.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Richard Costall and Andy Brown talk about two large scale production applications, one Smart Client and one ASP.NET app based on the beta 2 release of VS 2005 and the Framework 2.0. Hear about how they have dealt with compatability in a heterogenous client envyronment, some praise for the Microsoft Ascend program, how they utilize Web Services and ADO.NET, and more!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris Kinsman drops in to talk about some of the projects he's been working on lately. Topics include data warehousing, SQL Integration Services, the recently released Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library, and a Compact Framework project to interface with slot machines! Cool stuff, indeed.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Russ Nemhauser talks to Carl and Richard about mobility via the Smart Phone platforms, including some model specifics, shortcomings, and differences versus the Pocket PC platform. Russ, Carl and Richard also touch on the issues with VB6 developers moving to VB.NET, and how VS 2005 could make the transition easier. They also get into some great detail about stress testing and tracking down sluggish code in Visual Studio Team System.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In this episode, Kathleen Dollard is visiting Carl in the studio, and they get a great dynamic going while they talk about the finer points of generics and all the geeky stuff we're getting ready to sink our teeth into in the 2005 release.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

A talk with Sanjay Parthasarathy, Microsoft corporate vice president of Developer and Platform Evangelism. There are so many great nuggets in this episode.. just listen to it! We discover Sanjay is a toy boy like us. You'll hear about life at Microsoft before their current brand of evangelism took root. Also, the challenges of running a division of Microsoft that is not profit-driven.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rob Howard- star of stage, screen, and ASP.NET- drops in to talk to Carl and Richard about ASP.NET past, present, and future. Rob shares his insights as well as a few stories from his days on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. He also talked about his current gig with Telligent Systems, and what excites him the most about ASP.NET 2.0Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations