Carl Franklin

.NET Rocks!

.NET Rocks! is an Internet Audio Talk Show for Microsoft .NET Developers.

Author

Carl Franklin

Category

Technology

Podcast website

www.spreaker.com

Latest episode

Jul 8, 2026

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Episodes

Catching up with Rob Howard 18.04.2007

Ex-ASP.NET Team Member turned businessman Rob Howard tells us what he's been up to with Community Server, CodeSmith Tools, and a few other projects. As always, Rob has some great stories. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rick Brewster on Paint.NET 17.04.2007

Rick Brewster, the lead developer of Paint. NET, discusses the open-source paint program from the beginning to the present and into the future. It's a great story, and a great project! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Bret Updegraff Talks SQL Server Reporting Services 11.04.2007

Bret Updegraf shares his knowledge of SQL Reporting Services with Carl and Richard in this show. Bret is the author of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services in Action from Manning Publishing. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dax Pandhi talks WPF and Expression 09.04.2007

Graphics guru and WPF wonk Dax Pandhi shares his thoughts on WPF, WPF/e, Expression suite in general, and Blend in particular. You'll hear the story of how Dax came to be the Pwop graphics guy as well as his contributions to the WPF community. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Daniel Simmons on ADO.NET Entity Framework 05.04.2007

Carl and Richard talk about the ADO.NET Entity Framework, a new ORM technology from Microsoft, with Daniel Simmons, a dev lead on ADO.NET at Microsoft. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dan Appleman Talks About Discoverability! 02.04.2007

Carl and Richard catch up with Dan Appleman at Devconnections in Orlando. The big topic is the discoverability of pertinent information through search engines. His solution? You'll have to listen to find out. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Oren Eini -NHibernate and Rhino Mocks 29.03.2007

Oren Eini, creator of Rhino Mocks, reprises his DNR tv appearance with discussions on the effectiveness and power of NHibernate, coding advantages and the joys of authoring open source work. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Bill Wagner on C# and the Grateful Dead 27.03.2007

Bill Wagner is back to talk about C# with topics from his best-selling book, Effective C#. Bill is a multi-faceted developer, however, and the conversation turned to topics like community. Great stuff. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Michele Leroux Bustamante on WCF 22.03.2007

Michele checks in with Carl and Richard on the state of WCF. Not to be missed! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Kate Gregory on Managed C++, Vista Security, and more 20.03.2007

The always brilliant and delightful Kate Gregory talks with Carl and Richard about her passion, which is managed C++, as well as Vista, UAC and other things geekish. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jack Greenfield on Software Factories 15.03.2007

Jack Greenfield talks about software factories, or software that builds software. The conceptual and practical aspects of the future of software development, and implications for developers are discussed. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Shaun Walker on DotNetNuke 4.x 13.03.2007

Shaun Walker is back to talk about advances in DotNetNuke, his incredible open-source ASP.NET framework. .NET Nuke has been an increasingly popular option for development of ASP.NET sites and applications ever since it arrived on the scene in the early days of .NET. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dare Obasanjo on Windows Live Services and Other Cool Projects 08.03.2007

Dare Obasanjo talks to us about his work with Windows Live Server technologies, Windows Live Messenger, and RSS Bandit, his open source RSS aggregator. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Paul Randal on SQL Server 2005 Performance and Recovery 06.03.2007

Microsoftee Paul Randal drops by for an engaging talk about his contributions to the recoverability of SQL Server 2005, which are many (Can you say CHECKDB?). An old friend of ours, and a fairly new friend if Paul's, busts in on the conversation and makes a cameo appearance. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Eric Sink on Vista, Writing Books, SourceGear, and Wii Golf 27.02.2007

Eric Sink talks to us this week about a number of things currently on his mind including software methodologies, getting involved in the business side of software, upgrading to Vista, WPF/E, writing books for a living, and the evolution of his product, SourceGear. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Steve McConnell Makes Sure We're Code Complete 19.02.2007

Steve McConnell talks about his books, and his take on programming practices that transcend specific languages. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Billy Hollis on Application Complexity 13.02.2007

In this episode, Billy Hollis talks about the finer points of developing complex applications in the real world, the true costs and benefits of agile and other methodologies, and the things programmers and organizations can do to be effecient financially. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz on .NET 3.0 06.02.2007

Jesse Liberty and Alex Horovitz talk about their experiences researching and writing their book, Programming .NET 3.0 from O'Reilly, as well as their ideas on the future of programming. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Allan Hirt on High Availability 30.01.2007

Allan Hirt discusses the details of providing high availability with SQL Server 2005, and the things developers need to know in order to make their applications compatable. He discusses clustering, transaction log shipping, mirroring, and more. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Raymond Chen on Raymond Chen 23.01.2007

In this interview, Raymond Chen discusses... Raymond Chen! Raymond talks about his history at Microsoft dating back to the early days of the Windows32 API, up through the recent release of Windows Vista and whatever else is on his mind. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Scott Ambler on Agile 16.01.2007

Agile Methodology is a wide topic, and this discussion is quite unlike the others that we've had. Scott Ambler brings his experiences from his career at IBM and elsewhere to this lively discussion. Richard was particularly interested in his ideas on database refactoring. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Dunn and Mark Berry on Biztalk 2006 09.01.2007

Mark Berry and Mark Dunn from DUNN Training join us this week to dig a little deeper into BizTalk Server 2006. In this gripping sequel to Mark's earlier BizTalk shows, we delved much deeper into the inner workings of BizTalk than we've ever gone before. These guys know their stuff and you can bet this show will be educational and even a wee bit entertaining. Support this podcast at — https://redci...

Scott Guthrie Looks Ahead 02.01.2007

ASP.NET Co-creator Scott Guthrie talks about the present state and the future of ASP.NET, and also touches on WPFE, the Expression suite, and Windows Vista. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Live from the Canadian Vista Launch Events! 19.12.2006

Carl and Richard were the emcees at the Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa launch events in December, 2006. They were hired to generate excitement and give away swag! What a gig! Along the way they got to talk to some of the attendees and locals in the community. Great stuff! Featuring the following guests: Shane Miskin, Scott Howlett, Allan Vander-spek, Mohammad Akif, Robert Achmann, Jean-Luc David, a...

Ted Neward on Interoperability 12.12.2006

Ted Neward discusses the present state and future of interoperability. Java and .NET compatability are disucssed, Ted touches on a wide range of topics ranging from XML's shortcomings as a messenger format to proprietary systems in .NET 3.0. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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