.NET Rocks!

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

Bernard Wong from MSDN talks with Carl and Rory this week. What's on his mind? For starters, the old and tired questions asked of him at developer conferences, what Bill and Steve really say at those high level meetings in Redmond, amrchair CEOs, and other observations. Bernard always has great stories to tell. This is the last show of 2004. We'll be back on January 10th, 2005! Until then, we hope everyone enjoys a little time off for the holidays!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brian Larson talks to Carl and Rory, who is recovering from being sick and on the road, about SQL Reporting Services: architecture, cool features, innovative uses, performance tips, new features in SQL 2005 Reporting Services, and Business Intelligence opportunities in SQL 2005.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While Rory is living it up in Vegas Carl interviews seven Microsoft program managers and evanglists about the current state of Windows Server 2003 as well as what's on tap for future releases; 64-bit computing and why it's so cool; server security, and J2EE to .NET migration.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Billy Hollis went beyond the general smart client discussion we usually have and dug into architecure issues. What works? What doesn't work? Listen to Billy's stories from the field and learn from his experience. Awesome show.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Julie Lerman talks about her recent experiences with the Base Class Library 2.0, Tablet PC development and ADO.NET 2.0. She also talks about her professional life before software development, which may come as a bit of a shock. All-in-all it was a good conversation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dare we say the future? This show was originally intended to be a discussion about Java and Spring.NET with Mark Pollack. Then Ted was invited, and he invited Don. The result is an almost two hour discussion of Java and .NET. This is definitely going to be a classic.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Kate Gregory talks to Carl (in this retro interview-only show) about the new C++, why she prefers VB.NET over C#, Visual Studio Tools for Office, OOP, Sockets, and merry old England! This is the first of our attempt to make .NET Rocks! more geeky and less freaky! We hope you like it!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Microsoft Product Manager for Visual Basic.NET, Jay Roxe drops by to talk about his work on the .NET Framework including System.Object, System.String, and System.Text.StringBuilder. In the second half he talks about VB.NET 2005, about the decisions Microsoft made regarding features and ship dates, and about how he thinks VB.NET 2005 will go a long way toward making .NET accessible to the masses of business programmers worldwide.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Juval Löwy joins Carl, Rory, and the gang this week for a romp through .NET 2.0 in all its glory. Juval talks about serialization now and in 2.0, the new System.Transaction namespace and how cool it really is, putting System.EnterpriseServices in perspective, some quick lip service to generics (although he discussed that in show #34), and a little criticism of the new Visual Studio 2005. Thom Robbins joins us in the second half to talk about his recent CodeCamp event, and the New England district. Richard is still climbing mountains, but Rory is on fire with Google Weirdos and Ask Rory. Kirk has some good websites as well. Warning: this show is rated at least PG-13.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We try to have representatives from Microsoft on the show every once in a while to talk about what's happening in Redmond. This week we had four program managers for the Evangelism team: Scott Burmester, Steve Cellini, Carter Maslan, and Jeff Sandquist. The topic? Whidbey! We get a check up on the progress of the next version of .NET. We talked at length about the up-and-coming Visual Studio 2005 Team System, and the efforts to reach application developers who don't necessarily spend time in the development community. We also ask each of them to tell us something about Whidbey that we probably don't already know. All in all it's a good show, even if Rory and Richard are on vacation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

.NET Rocks! regular guest (and guest host) Chris Sells joins Carl and the gang for a really fun discussion (after he comments on the mail and news) about Longhorn and WinFX, Longhorn features on XP, working on the MSDN Smart Client DevCenter, VS.NET 2005, learning about new technologies, learning by teaching, and Avalon. He answers some good technical questions from live listeners, and overall makes the two hours fly by. Of course you get the mail, news of the week, Weird Wide Webb, and Ask Rory. Richard is away this week so Carl gave away an iPod to a lucky listener!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Noted author and software engineer Fritz Onion is our guest this week on .NET Rocks! After lavishing praise on F.O. for what seemed an eternity, Carl and Rory get down to the HTTP Pipeline, the HTTPContext, User Controls, Web Controls, and what Fritz likes (and dislikes) about the current beta of ASP.NET 2.0. Among other accomplishments, Fritz is the author of the best-selling Essential ASP.NET published by Addison Wesley.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Industry guru Richard Hale Shaw talks to the guys about what's on his mind. Namely, patterns, practices, anti-practices and anti-patterns, best practices, patterns in .NET, the future of C++ and managed code, VB6 as the ultimate anti-pattern, lack of OOP in ASP.NET 1.1, and looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0. We also listened to a bit of one of Richard's favorite tunes, What is Hip by Tower of Power. Mail, News, New music from Rory Blyth, Weird Wide Webb, and Richard the Toy Boy.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Joe Stagner stopped by to talk about his recent experiences at BorCon, experiences with the Open Source community, Java, and Delphi. In the second half we talked about Rory joining the MSDN evangelism team, VB.NET 2005, the CLR 2.0, XP Service Pack 2 and website security. Joe did a session at TechEd 2004 called "How Hackers Hack" which was the number two highest-attended session! This was a great talk with a very talented developer turned evangelist who keeps it real every day. Also, Mail, News of the Week, Weird Wide Webb, Ask Rory, and Richard the Toy Boy.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Miller talks about his experiences developing for Delphi, developing the motion control system for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stage show, and his masterpiece, CodeRush. Mark is a big advocate of good design. He talks about plug-in architecture, another area of strong expertise, making the case for using plug-ins in everyday software. He also talks about Programmer Ergonomics- keeping fit in a sedentary job, his ideas about the future of software development interfaces, and other interesting topics.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This weeks show is an interesting conversation with Dave Wecker, a brilliant (we think) architect in the Mobile Platforms Division who is constantly looking for the next thing in mobility, and how to make the mobile platforms better. The conversation spans from his experiences with speech recognition systems, the Tablet PC, microphone arrays, and neural networks to toys, home automation, books, and toys. Did we mention toys? Dave is a Toy Boy like us! It's people like Dave that make Microsoft the leader in software innovation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Well-known author, developer, and speaker Don Kiely tells us why it's important to develop software (and do everything else on your PC) running as a non-admin. He offers some advice on what the pitfalls and challenges are as well as the benefits. It's a new world, and the days of running as administrator are over.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Charles Petzold talks with Carl and Rory about his books including Programming Windows; Code; and his .NET books, his love of computer and math history, his exploits with early electronic music, and tells some stories from the old days (at the prodding of old friend, Richard Hale Shaw, who was listening to the live stream at the time). This is a great discussion with a great man. Charles has a way of making complex concepts easy to understand.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

DotNetNuke is a free ASP.NET based content management system with a huge installbase and support community. Shaun Walker is it's creator, and Jim Duffy is probably its biggest evangelist. This is a great laid-back show in which you'll learn all about DotNetNuke. By the end of the show you'll be rushing off to download it!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Noted developer Miguel de Icaza talks about the Mono project. Ever wanted to run your .NET applications on Linux or a Mac, check out this show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Kimberly Tripp offers critical insights into SQL Server 2000 addressing Indexing, optimizing procedural code, the nightmare of row-based operations, and more. This show is 2.5 hours long!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jeff Richter talks about the 1.1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) and gives a sneak peak at what's coming in the Orcas CLR. Also, News of the week and Rory's Top 10 reasons why C# is better than VB.NET ;-)Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week the one and only Clemens Vasters turns on the light about the future of distributed systems and SOA. If you didn't get it before now, you will after listening to this show.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Tim Huckaby stops by to talk about his mission of preaching the SmartClient gospel. Tim is always full of fun, great stories, and common sense. Nickolas Landry surprises us by calling in and heckling Tim. Rory does the Google Weirdos and News of the Week, Carl scraps the Linux Vulnerability of the week (it was time) and Richard Campbell (the Toy Boy) reviews the nVidia GeForce 6800 (as well as a not-so-cool toy) and Carl gives one away to a lucky listener! All in all this was a great show!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week's show is a roundtable discussion with Mark Dunn, Dan Appleman, Bill Vaughn, Kathleen Dollard, Don Kiely, Pat Hynds, Julia Lerman, and Scott Hanselman. See what happens when you get a bunch of geeks on the phone and turn em loose!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Rory geek out with Richard Cambpell about everything but programming! Topics include water-cooled PCs, wireless gear, and flying cars. Yeah, it's not about .NET, but for crying out loud, live a little!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations