.NET Rocks!

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