.NET Rocks!

Carl and Mark have a chat with the one and only Don Box about SOAP, WSE, Longhorn, Indigo, COM, the PDC, Band on the Runtime, and the meaning of life. Don reveals a few gems about Indigo, and talks about the ways in which Indigo makes web services better.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark talk to Robert about the new Visual Studio Tools for Office, VBA, XML, Office and DataSets, Scripting, and using Word and Excel as the User Interface layer for your .NET framework applications. Robert also talks about some features of up-coming versions of these tools in the Whidbey timeframe. This is great stuff! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl talks with pat about Security, from the general concepts to the practical tips and in between. Pat draws on his millitary background to render a keen understanding of how to secure today's complex systems. You will pick up some great tips, and hopefully start thinking of security issues in your everyday development efforts after listening to this show. Pat Rocks! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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Carl and Mark talk to Robert about Blogging, Longhorn, and the PDC. Lots of great stories, blogging for dummies, and a sneak peak at what happened at the PDC. They also talk about security, and Merrill Lynch's open letter to Sun, among other things. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark chat with Scott about the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 (code-named Whidbey). Scott's keen understanding of the high and low-level features of Whidbey, Yukon, and IIS 6.0 really shine through in this interview where the topics include performance, caching and cache dependency, VS.NET tools, data access, using Yukon with ASP.NET 2.0, sharing session state, backward-compatibility, and code enhancements as well as a time-frame for when to expect alphas, betas, and the like.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week Carl and Mark throw down a few pints at the historic Dutch Tavern in downtown New London, CT and you're invited! Listen to stories from their recent week of teaching a VB.NET class to 27 people, challenging code puzzles, interesting characters, and of course, beer.This is a very relaxed show, but don't think you won't learn a thing or two. C'mon! Just have one more Black and Tan! Note: The show starts out a bit noisy, then gets better. There were some rowdy people in there when we first started recording, and they left shortly afterwords.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This is a rare opportunity to have a conversation with people at Microsoft who are so closely tied to VB and VB.NET. They talked about new features in Whidbey, the next version of Visual Basic expected out in 2004 sometime, including some features that nobody knows about outside of the Alpha program! You'll have to listen to find out what they are!Carl and Mark talked about the things they like and have disliked about VB in the past, and how VB.NET has really brought the language to the forefront of the serious development community. As well, they ask some interesting questions like, "what parts of the .NET Framework were written in VB.NET" and other goodies. There are plenty of laughs as well. If you're a VB programmer, you've got to hear this! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Her area of expertise is (obviously) the ASP.NET DataGrid. She talks with Mark and Carl about various aspects of the DataGrid. She talks about common mistakes, common solutions, workarounds, what is it best suited for, what is it not suited well for, etc. Marcie also talks about Inheritance and web controls, managing viewstate, custom columns, blogging, and some of her favorite books on ASP.NETSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark and Carl talk with Brent about intellectual property, namely assembly and application obfuscation: techniques used, and the resultant binaries. They also talk about Remoting and get Brent's take on the value of Remoting. But the big gem in this show, we think, is Brent's 5-minute description of how Code Access Security works, which we immediately recognize as something very special. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week, Carl and Mark talk to Juval Lowy about, among other things, the new version of C# (2.0). Of the new features, Juval's favorite is Generics. Generics allow you to define data structures without committing to actual data types. This results with significant performance boost, higher quality code and faster development, because you get to reuse data processing algorithms without duplicating type-specific codeSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week Carl and Mark got to do a show they've been waiting for a long time to do. The conversation touches on the new application blocks (bluebricks - from the MS Patterns and Practices Group), string handling, using the BitConverter class for fast file i/o, serialization, XMLDataDocuments and XSLT, inheritance, instrumentation, the ASP.NET Cache object, and some great stories from the trenches, especially Mark's great training stories which always contain an array of shady characters and companies. All in all, its an hour well spent for .NET developersSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl engaged Matthew in a lively discussion about his incredible website (.NET 24/7) which provides instant gratification for help on any of the classes in the .NET framework in the form of links to published articles, newsgroup discussions, and blog entries. Matthew is a big fan of weblogs, which he discusses in the interview. They also talked about the C# vs. VB.NET issue, and other issues associated with particular languages. As well, the conversation touched on the next versions of the framework and VS.NET. Matthew is happy to receive comments or feedback on any topic via his webblog at weblogs.asp.net. Please don't send us email about the poor quality of the audio. The source recording was not good, and we have made it as good as it can be.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Tim talks about projects, demos, info-path, drinking water out of a vodka bottle, VS Tools for Office, Speaking at Tech-Ed, smart clients and all the stuff he learned working at Microsoft in Redmond.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The International .NET Association (INETA) provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoftr .NET user groups. INETA's mission is to offer assistance and resources to community groups that promote and educate their membership in Microsofts .NET technologies. INETA welcomes all facets of the .NET user community, from developers and architects to project managers and IT professionals. Members can be user groups or special interest groups that:Focus on a single aspect of .NET, such as VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, etc. Target the entire .NET platform Concentrate on other technologies but are also interested in .NET INETA is the next evolution in user group communities - a non-profit, independent organization, chartered with supporting all user groups interested in the Microsoft .NET platform. INETA is run by a board of user group leaders, elected by their peers, and supported by Microsoft Corporation and other sponsors.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This show is a lively and candid conversation with three members of the Microsoft .NET Evangelism team. In this episode Mark takes a break to enjoy his sons last baseball game of the season. Carl talks to the team about what they do and how their efforts impact the quality of the framework and developer tools in general. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of the .NET Evangelism team and how it operates. Other topics include companies that Microsoft has worked with as early adopters, Visual Basic.NET vs C#, why Regional Directors are so special (grin), why web services are the new focus of the .NET moniker and why it gives developers severe acid reflux, why developers are still stuck on nanosecond-level performance differences, differences between DevDays; Tech-Ed; and the Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Fascinating stuff. Also, Carl plays a wicked cool guitar piece in lieu of the first ad spot!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris talks with Carl and Mark about Longhorn, Working at Microsoft, his book with Don Box, his new Windows Forms book, dealing with Printer Margins, passing command-line arguments to auto-deployed applications, linking assemblies, the new Matrix movie, whats new in Ghengis, and answers the age old question "to GAC or not to GAC?"Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark talk to Jorge about how developers think, their approach to problem solving, how Microsoft makes development too easy sometimes, and about how developers think of their role in their companies. This is a fun interview. We even got to talk about music (Jorge is a bass player) and booze (of course!) in PeruSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl caught up with Ingo at the New Orleans Hilton during DevConnections, a conference where they were both speaking. Carl and ingo talk all about .NET Remoting, and Ingo shares some critical insights that come from his experiences with Remoting.Ingo also talks about the new WSE (Web Service Extentions). Nicolas Landry stops by and talks about his experiences at DevConnections, Java compatibility with SOAP, SmartPhones, and other intersting tidbits.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Russ talks with us about the Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio.NET 2003 launch (recorded the same day), what's new in VS.NET 2003, upgrading, and what's new in the New England districtSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

He talks with us about the current blocks available, for ADO.NET and Exception Handling, and also gives us a sneak peek at the next bluebricks coming down the road, including a User Interface facade layer, an application updater (using the BITS Background Internet Transfer Service), and a Configuration Manager block for dealing with config files, including code for persisting connection strings. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dino shares some valuable tips and insights into the innerworkings of ASP.NET security, IIS Impersonation, how VIEWSTATE is encoded, the serialization engine, how to store encrypted values in the registry, inline code vs. CodeBehind, and Italian Rock bands. We also learn that Dino has an extreme distaste for barbeque. Dino shares some topics of some of his best articles, including an ASP.NET control that generates a bar chart with pure html tables. He talks about one of the talks that he'll be doing at DevConnections in which he shows you how to write Plug-ins that users can add into your applications. He also talked about his new 1000-page book, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Paul talks with Mark and Carl about ASP.NET performance tuning, tips, viewstate info, smart navigation, layout mode and more, and Paul shares some great insights and stories from the field. Lots of great tips and information here. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark talk to Andrew about data binding, data adapters, connected and dis-connected models, stored procedures, performance and encapsulation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark talk with Ethan and Bob about the Good Old Days of the BASIC language, and some of their experiences early on in the first days of the industry, as well as PowerBASIC past, present, and future, crazy tech-support calls, and other stories.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Stephen talks about the International .NET Association (INETA - www.ineta.org), relates his .NET success stories, and talks about design patterns, COM Interop, Performance Anxiety, ASP.NET Forms Authentication, ViewState, Caching, and the DataGrid control. The DataGrid Girl (www.datagridgirl.com) calls and yaks with Carl, Mark, and Stephen about the ASP.NET DataGrid. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Bill talks with us again picking up where our last conversation with him left off, talking about ADO.NET concurrency, SQL database design, dealing with Data Adapters, and a few other interesting tangents. Always good stuff with Mr. V!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Dunn is on temporary leave in Redmond, WA this week teaching a beta Architecture class. Scott and Carl chat about .NET, C#, Reflection, Regular Expressions, Freeware, Code Sharing, Config Files, Sockets, Multi-Threaded programming, and a laundry list of Scott's favorite utilities (shown below) that you just have to check out. We had a few comments that the shows were not loud enough. So, starting with this show the volume has been maximized. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Alan has a lot to say about programming, programmers, and focuses intently on what's wrong with programming as we know it. Why do businesspeople fear programmers? Is the construction of software managed? These topics and more are the focus of this monumental episode of .NET Rocks! Alan tells the story of that meeting where he showed Visaul Basic (then code-named Ruby) to Bill Gates and his people. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Michele discusses the differences between programming in Java space vs. .NET from her own first hand experience.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This is the first of a series of shows we are going to do this year highlighting .NET Success Stories; companies that have implemented .NET applications successfully as either pilot projects or production projects. In this show we hear from two different companiesSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ken talks about asynchronous calls, events, delegates, the next version of Microsoft Office, printing, C# vs VB.NET, being a control freak, Visual Studio.NET 2003, and training videos.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark talk with Nick about Mobile computing, and how .NET fully supports mobile devices. A surprise phone call from Tim Huckaby forces us to extend this lousy show for an extra half-hour, but you'll be glad you stuck it out to hear his Bill Gates story.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Scott talks about the human side of software development, the .NET Pet Shop wars; a now famous head-to-head battle between .NET and Java, and talks about his company, Vertigo Software, and the work that they do with .NET including the Pet Shop application.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris talks with Test with Carl and Mark about COM and .NET components, finalizers, disposing, Smart Client Windows Forms Applications (we still don't know what to call these things), how to navigate sellsbrothers.com, interview weed-out questions, and why he calls it Sells Brothers. Also, Chris finally clears up the age-old question of why C++ programmers feel so superior to mere humans. Chris' main web page is www.sellsbrothers.com. There you can subscribe to his many lists and take advantage of all the great free information and code he shares with the community. Chris writes regularly for MSDN Magazine on advanced topics. Trust us, you will save yourself hours of guesswork by taking an hour and a half of your day to listen to this interview. This show was actually recorded in mid-November, and its still fresh!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

.NET Rocks! went on the road to VS.NET Connections, an awesome .NET developer conference in Orlando, FL that took place October 27-30, 2002. We have two hours of interviews with speakers and attendees, which make for a really enjoyable and informative show. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark talk to bill about ADO.NET, DataAdapters, Yukon, Concurrency, JET (Bill Hates Jet), MSDE, DTS, and other critical stuff. This is classic Vaughn!This is also the genesis of the messy hair joke that permeates our shows and videos.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark talk with Mark Anders about ASP.NET, Framework v1.1, Languages, IIS 6.0, and other great topics. This week we had some celebrity callers: Chris Sells and MSDN Regional Director Stephen Forte ring the show, making for some great tech talk.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark have a great chat with Jonathan Zuck about protecting the free market system from anti-competitive legislation championed by companies that want to use Washington to limit the power and effectiveness of their competitors. Not only that, but they talk about some new announcements by Microsoft about what we can expect from new versions, and from Microsoft in the immediate future.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Mark have an enlightening talk with Juval Löwy about COM+ Enterprise Services, and how they relate to .NET. If you thought Enterprise Services (COM+) was just about Transactions and Object Pooling, you've got to check this out. Juval believes that we will all be using Enterprise Services in the near future because it will be time-prohibitive (and therefore cost-prohibitive) not to do so.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This week Carl and Mark interview Billy Hollis, noted speaker and .NET expert. Billy and Rockford Lhotka had the first VB.NET book on the market from Wrox Press. Since then, Billy has taught VB.NET classes and done consulting for major companies, as well as authoring (or co-authoring) at least 8 books on .NET. He is the MSDN Regional Director (RD) for Tennessee, and was RD of the year in 2001. He authors many articles, including a regular column at MSDN called Adventures in VB.NET Billy talks about ASP.NET vs Smart Client applications, Remoting, and offers lots of great advice and information to VB.NET programmers. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This, our second show was recorded live from the Microsoft Offices in Waltham, MA at the montly meeting of the .NET User Group of Greater Boston. Carl and Mark interview Daniel Appleman of Desaware, Inc. Dan shares his insights into .NET and offers advice to shops looking at moving to .NET. Topics include Interop, obfuscators, assemblies and memory, performance, C# vs VB.NET, State Machines, and more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Look out! Its .NET Rocks! In this, the premiere episode, Carl interviews Pat Hynds from Critical Sites, a Sun Partner, IBM Partner, and Microsoft Partner. He shares his insights into .NET and provides real world stories of development in J2EE and Visual Studio.NET, and compares the results.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations