.NET Rocks!

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

On this show, some of the PDC planners talk about what you can expect to see!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard come at you live from Tech Ed Orlando, interviewing the Team System team. Find out what will (and won't) be included in 1.0, and get an idea what you can expect in the next version.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In this great episode of Dot Net Rocks, Michele returns once again to discuss WSE, Indigo, and Security. In particular, she discusses the challenges around keeping keys and tokens secure.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jackie Goldstein talks about Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET in this excellent discussion. We had a great time talking to Jackie Goldstein but we were only able to cover half the topics we wanted to. Look for part two later on in 2005.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We thought we were going to cover a lot of topics in this episode of Dot Net Rocks, but we managed to go over an hour without straying from Virtual PC at all. This is a must-listen show for anyone who isn't already an expert in Virtual PC or Virtual Server. Brain Randell explains the advantages and disadvantages, warns you of some potential pitfalls, and shows you how you can boost performance!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

He's Back! The man responsible for the IIS team, the ASP. NET team, and the visual Studio Web Tools team gives us an update on ASP.NET 2.0, IIS 7.0, and even a hint at Orcas, the next .NET rev after WhidbeySupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We return to Dot Net Nuke, with Jim Duffy and Shaun Walker, who talk about the amazing pluggability and skinability of Dot Net Nuke. We discuss the changes between 2.0 and 3.0, the philosophy of Open Source development, and even get a glimpse at what we might see in the future of Dot Net Nuke.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl talks with Richard Turner and Anand Rajagapolan, Program Managers on the Indigo team to really dig into the Indigo experience. This is a great show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Kim Tripp is back and more intense than ever. After talking about her famous USB Key demonstration of SQL 2005 partitioning, she gets into details of SQL 2005 that would make even the SQL team go "hey, that's cool!" This is one of those shows that you'll have to listen to several times to completely grasp. We know we will!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Matt Mannion from Clarity Consulting talks about the application his company developed with and for the Indy Racing League in Indianappolis, IN. Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and VB.NET they were able to develop a great application for managing real-time racing data and reporting. Fascinating story.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Grant BlahaErath and Glenn Podany talk about the MS Platform Adoption Center: what it is and what it's used for. Sometimes called the Customer Lab, the PAC has generated some great case studies with major companies implementing Microsoft technologies. Great stories and geeking out on this show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Scott Hanselman returns to DNR for the first time in several months. In this otherwise ASP.NET-centric show, Rory shows off his hands-free flush abilities and Scott rants about Cascading Style Sheets. A great show with more nutritional value than you might expect. Welcome back to the show, Rory!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rhocky Lhotka and Bill Vaughn return in this *live* recording of Dot Net Rocks, from the March 2005 Dev Connections conferene in Orlando, FLSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ken Getz comes back for round 2 with .NET Rocks! talking about new features of VB.NET 2005, SharePoint and WSS, wireless service, and toys!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

World-renowned author and trainer Paul Sheriff talks with Carl and Richard about all things architecture: what, why, when, where, and how. Even if you have no plans to move beyond the cowboy way of software development, this discussion will make you think.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This is a great show on what's coming in Longhorn technology, namely Indigo, Avalon, and XAML, and compatibility. We get to the heart of what the term "Managed OS" really means. Jeff Sandquist tries to decide whether or not to shave his mustache. He's had it since he was 16.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris Maxwell and Randy Kim from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration talk about their recent .NET project, World Wind, an educational and informational tool for viewing planet Earth (and other planets). The program was written in Visual Studio .NET with managed DirectX, and is open source. Geoff steps out from behind the sound board and ends up asking most of the really good questions.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Miller returns again, and is in the studio with Carl talking about his sordid past with Delphi, some development choices he's made, pair porgramming, and GDI+Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We have arrived at our 100th show! Richard Campbell, Mark Dunn, Nick Landry, Geoff Maciolek, and Chris Sells join Carl in this look at shows past, present, and future. Lots of fun and you'll learn a few things too, as we always do.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

New York Regional Director Stephen Forte talks with Carl and Rory about many cool things, including SQL Server 2005 (Yukon). He's got some good advice for how to get the most out of it. As well, the conversation turned to clustering and RAID strategies. This was a great talk with one of the Northeast's sharpest .NET minds, not to mention mountain climbers and extreme... well, let's just say he's extreme and leave it at that.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

As the original co-host of .NET Rocks!, mark didn't say all that much. Well, look out! He's talking about his current passions, ADO.NET 2.0 and BizTalk 2004, and we can't shut him up! This is a great conversation with a true ADO.NET expert. Mark has a knack for explaining complex ideas in a very natural and easy manner. If you still don't get BizTalk, this is the show to listen to. Mark explains why BizTalk is great from a very practical perspective, and explains why he is on a crusade to get developers as excited about BizTalk as IT managers are.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Rory catch up after Rory's long haitus. Topics include Smartphone programming, responding to an article blasting OOP, and much more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Independent Software developer and Visual C# MVP Robert Hurlbut joins Carl in the studio this week for a discussion about security, least-privileged development, and the SQL 2005 Service Broker.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rob Barker from microsoft engages Carl and Rory in a conversation about leveraging Infopath, the Information Bridge Framework, and Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 to develop smart clients.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations