.NET Rocks!

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 n...

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 whe...

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 development Support 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/don...

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 interes...

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://redcir...

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,...

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 ef...

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. NET Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donat...

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 developme...

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 Hour Support...

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...

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, Lin...

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 v...

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, too...

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 so...

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 Blyth This 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 da...

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 aro...