Adventures in .NET

In this episode of Adventures in .NET the panel interviews Patrick Smacchia who is known for his static analyzer, NDepend. The panel discusses NDepend, Patrick explains a bit about what is and how it works along with his history in .NET. Patrick is here to explains SOLID, an acronym introduced by Robert C. Martin outlining principles for object-oriented programming.  These principles teach program...

In this week’s episode of Adventures in .NET the panel is joined by Wai Liu, the new panelist, and Jason Bock, the special guest. Wai shares a bit about himself, currently, he works as a PM from Australia. His focus lately has been on Azure and .NET Core. Jason Bock introduces himself next, he is a practice lead for application development in .NET. He is a writer and a speaker, often about the new...

In this week’s episode of Adventures in .NET the panel interviews Wade Gausden, who is well known for his website dotnetcoretutorials.com. When Wade got started in .NET around .NET 2.0 the documentation was terrible, so he started this website where he would write posts about the problems he ran into and how he solved them. The panel discusses how as .NET and C# have grown and evolved, making thin...

On this week's Adventures in .NET, Charles Max Wood (Chuck) talks about the recent Twitter thread about 10x engineers. He goes through each of the points in the tweet and talks about each of them in turn. There are only two points he sort of agrees with, and believes the rest to be absolute garbage. One of the issues with this tweet is that it doesn’t define what a 10x engineer is. Defining a 10x...

 In this week’s episode of Adventure in .NET the panel shares their experiences using LINQ or Language Integrated Query. They discuss the benefits of using LINQ  along with the struggles they have with it. They share some of their favorite tips and tricks for using LINQ.    LINQ is something .NET developers use on a daily basis. The panel starts by giving a little background on LINQ. LINQ was intr...

Episode Summary In this week’s episode of Adventures in .NET the panel interviews Filip Ekberg, Microsoft MVP, about using async, await, and the new features in C# 8. They begin by discussing the evolution of running tasks and multithreading in async. Filip describes the evolution beginning with background workers, through task parallel libraries finally to async and await. The panel considers how...

Episode Summary   In this episode of Adventures in .NET, James Montemagno, a PM in the developer division at Microsoft working with Xamarin shares with the panel all of the exciting things happening in the Xamarin world. Charles Max Wood invites listeners to check out James’s appearances on a different DevChatTV podcast, The iPhreaks Show. Charles expresses his excitement to see Xamarin from a .NE...

Sponsors CacheFly Panel Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Joined by Special Guest: Daniel Roth Summary Daniel Roth, from Microsoft, the ASP .NET team, joins the panel to discuss Blazor. Daniel starts by introducing Web Assembly and how this changed web development. Blazor allows full-stack development through .NET with C#. The panel asks Dan about Blazor's capabilities and future. Dan shares Blazor’s ori...

Sponsors CacheFly Panel Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Joined by Special Guest: Colby Tresness Summary Colby Tresness, from Microsoft, joins the panel to answer questions about azure functions. He starts by defining the two different types of azure functions. He overviews the different plans available and what they offer. The panel discusses the best use cases for azure functions and Colby shares what...

Sponsors CacheFly Panel Charles Max Wood Shawn Clabough Caleb Wells Joined by Special Guest: Mads Kristensen Summary Mads Kristensen, from Microsoft, joins the panel to discuss building extensions in visual studio. Mads shares his story of getting into building extensions. Mads gives recommendations when getting started building an extension. The panel discusses what are important things to unders...

Sponsors CacheFly Panel Caleb Wells Shawn Clabough Summary In this very first episode of Adventures in .NET the panel starts by introducing themselves. The panel shares their journeys when they got started in programming and how they got into .NET. The panel considers the evolution of technology and how the modern path of a programmer has changed. They discuss what projects they are currently work...