.NET Rocks!

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

This week we had a very informative discussion about messaging with Benjamin Mitchell and John Bristowe. Benjamin and John cut through the WS-AlphabetSoup set of specifications, avoid frequent references to SOA and cover what the benefits of web services are, why you might want to use WSE (security, policy, addressing and support for TCP), how to use web services in your applications today and where Microsoft is heading with web services and Indigo in future. Michele Leroux Bustamante joined us unexpectedly in the second half, and she even told a great joke!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

John and Barry talk with us about Test-Driven Development, Unit Testing, and other aspects of Extreme Programming that are being used today. We had given lip service to unit testing in past shows, but John and Barry were able to explain the benefits as well as the how-to of test-driven developmentSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rocky Lhotka talks about his new book, the CSLA framework, and makes the case for business objects in this world of DataSets and XML. He also talked a bit about WhiteHorse, Microsoft's new designers for SOA and classes shipping in the Whidbey timeframe. This was a great show, and we're always glad to talk to Rocky about all things .NET.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In this, our first show after a much-needed vacation, we take you to TechEd 2004 in San Diego. We walked around on the show floor and talked to some of our former and future guests about TechEd, what's new, and what they're interested in.We recorded most of this show on video, and as such will be airing ".NET Rocks! The Movie" as soon as we possibly can. Until then, enjoy some of the more interesting sonic tidbits of the film.In the first half we spoke to Tim Huckaby, Keith Nicholson, Billy Hollis, Don Kiely, Stephen Forte, Don Box, and Jon Lam.In the second half, we spent about 40 minutes in an INETA Birds Of a Feather (BOF) Session that we recorded Sunday night, in which Bob Reselman showed up and got things juiced up. There is also a lot of obvious interest in the Visual Studio Team System, which was announced at TechEd. We spoke with Paul Sheriff, Brian Noyes, and Chris Kinsman about their impressions of the Team System, and then we caught up with some Microsft team members to talk about it.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

What started out as a show about the DevConnections Developer Conference morphed into a round-table chat with Dan Appleman, Kathleen Dollard, Mark Dunn, Don Kiely, Robert Scoble, Chris Sells, and Bill Vaughn about developer conferences like DevConnections, writing books, speaking, and various other aspects of the industry. Of course, it was lots of fun too.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Rory chat with noted author, developer, and MVP Kathleen Dollard about Code Generation, or writing code that writes code. Don Kiely also shows up to talk about working with Kathleen on her book Code Generation in .NET. Carl and Rory also check in with Sunny Day to talk about the price of gasoline in Maine.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rory somehow convinced DonXML to drive up to the .NET Rocks! Studios for our first Thursday-night live show.Don Demsak (a.k.a. DonXML) is all about XML and related technologies, and as such he told us Why XML? for the as-of-yet unbeliever. Other topics include what the community gets wrong with XML, what's wrong with typed datasets, Object Constraint Language (OCL), what's wrong with the XML DOM, declarative programming and XAML, and SVG.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In the first hour Vic Gundotra and Steve Cellini from Microsoft talk about Longhorn and Evangelism at Microsoft. Evangelists are concerned with getting technical information to the developer community. During the break, Rory interviews the MSDN Channel 9 team about Channel 9After the break, Lenn Pryor and some of the Channel 9 team join Carl and Rory for more talk about Longhorn and Microsoft's efforts to get technical information to developers everywhere.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This show is all about architecture from Why to How. Keith and Harry bring the developer's and architect's perspective to the discussion, respectively. The discussion starts with the importance of good design and architecture, to techniques, tools, standards, and the like.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week's guest is Bob Reselman , author of Coding Slave, a book that claims the software industry doesn't want you to read it. We'll be talking about software, outsourcing, technology, and of course - the book.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Tony Bain talks with Rory and Chris Sells about the issues developers face when building SQL Server based applications. Topics include optimization strategies and tools, how DBAs can help, transaction and concurrency control, locking, isolation levels, good database design, and good strategies for accessing SQL from Visual Studio.NETSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Markus Egger of CoDe Magazine and EPS Software fame joins Carl and Rory this week to talk about OOP, Windows Forms, Visual Inheritance, and Tablet PC development.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jon Box and Dan Fox are on the show this week talking about smart devices, the Compact Framework, and their book, "Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework"Even if you are not currently developing for smart devices, this show is worth the listen. Jon and Dan talk about smart device past, present, and future, and offer real insights into and development strategies for development with the .NET Compact Framework.Topics include pInvoke, memory usage, UI design, storage, local file access, synchronization, asynchronous programming, and more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris Flores, Jay Roxe, and Brian Goldfarb from Microsoft tell developers what they can expect from DevDays, a one-day conference in your local area hosted by Microsoft and your local Regional Director. For about a hundred bucks you can get the PDC build of Whidbey and some incredible sample code that you can use right away to build and secure smart client and ASP.NET applications.1 HourSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Rory talk with Kevin about ObjectSpaces (a new business object management tool coming in the Whidbey timeframe), UML, Object Role Modeling (ORM), Visio, and his Mere Mortals Framework, an application framework for .NET developers based on best practices and patterns. This is a good show for anyone interested in using patterns and practices, maximizing development time, and tools the help you design and build business objects.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week, Carl and Rory talk with noted ADO and ADO.NET guru Carl Prothman about ASP.NET, being an MVP, INETA, ADO.NET, ASP.NET Security and Visual Studio.NET. There were lots of callers during the show. This may be the best show we've ever done on ADO and ADO.NET issues. CP also talked about how to prevent the most common types of ASP.NET attacks.Regular segments: Fan mail, Google Weirdos, Linux Vulnerability of the week, and a lucky listener wins a copy of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with 25 licenses compliments of the Microsoft Regional Director ProgramRory also unleashed some of his own music during the intermission! All in all, this is a very informative and lively show.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ted Neward and Bruce Tate talk about the relationship between Java and .NET, underscoring the issues with interop between the two platforms. Also discussed: cultural differences between the Java and .NET communities, the Pet Store Benchmark, the Jump Toolkit and J#, Naked Objects, unit testing, refactoring, the Standard Widget Toolkit, Mono, Rotor, Java on the client vs on the server, Swing, Sun vs Microsoft ideology, rabid zealotry in the Java community, languages vs platforms, open source, and the future of Java IDEs.Dan Appleman stopped by to talk about languages and what's new at Desaware.As always, Rory does Google Weirdos, and Carl exposes the Linux Vulnerability of the WeekSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

He's back and he's pissed! Not really, but we've always wanted to say that. Scott Hanselman talks with Carl and Rory about the following:* ASP.NET* Declarative Programming* "Word Documents have no teeth"* Client Side Validation* Code Generation - CodeSmith* Caching* Performance Counters in ASP.NET* Perf Testing* "A caste system for APIs"* other ideas: blogging trends, usenet, google, toolbars, future interfaces, * where he's speaking this quarter....* DevDays* WhidbeySupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In this, the second installment in our ongoing ".NET Success Stories" series, Carl talks with Jesse Ezell and Chris Kinsman about projects they have developed and successfully deployed with Microsoft .NET languages, tools, and technologies.Chris talks about a huge project done for an insurance company that successfully uses ASP.NET and Windows Forms with autodeployment. As well, he talks about some applications he wrote for slot machine management at a casino.In the second half, Jesse Ezell discusses an application he helped develop for Articulate Software that utilizes Flash as a server application to convert Powerpoint presentations to Flash.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris Sells and Rory Blyth interview Carl about communications programming (serial, sockets, and MIDI), teaching, and the meaning of life. It's a fun and informative show, that you shouldn't miss.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Hey, it's our first Live .NET Rocks! Show EVER! Oh yeah, we recorded a show live at the PDC, but we didn't broadcast it live! What's more, Carl's co-host is none-other than the infamous Rory BlythThis show is 2 hours long, and commenced Friday, January 30, 2004 at 12PM EST, 9AM PST. In the first hour, Bill Vaughn and Peter Blackburn talk about SQL Reporting Services, Microsoft's foray into the data reporting market.In the second hour, Carl and Rory welcome noted VB and PC guru Dan Appleman to talk about marketing hype, how developers are spending their time, and his new book Always Use ProtectionRory is moving to New London March 1st. So, the new live show format will commence March 5th, and will be only format for .NET Rocks! going forward. Remember! Friday's at Noon Eastern!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In our first post-Mark show, Carl interviews developer and author Brian Noyes. Brian has focused his studies and development efforts on Smart Client development, and in this interview brings us from AutoDeployment of Windows Forms applications into ClickOnce, the next-generation deployment and update technology from Microsoft that will ship with the .NET Framework 2.0. We talk about the issues around AutoDeployment, and how Microsoft is addressing those issues with ClickOnce.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In this, Mark's last show, Carl and Mark welcome Rory Blyth, who writes a very popular blog at neopoleon.com. Rory's blog has become well known at Microsoft and in the .NET blogsphere in general.Rory talks about the .NET community and the Open Source Software (OSS) community, writing, blogging, driving to the PDC from Las Vegas, Longhorn, and lots of other great stuff. This one is not to be missed!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark have a chat with Sam Gentile (pronounced gen-TILL-ee) about sci-fi authors, COM Interop's problems, Extreme Programming, dual programming, unit testing, Sam's thoughts on the state of the .NET Framework, Groove, what's wrong with Com Interop, the cross-platform potential of the .NET Framework, the CLI, Rotor and Mono.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations