.NET Rocks!

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...

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 mass...

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 Ro...

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...

.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 mak...

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 pu...

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....

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...

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 fi...

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, an...

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...

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