.NET Rocks!

Jackie Goldstein returns to talk about the ADO.NET, the data tools in Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL 2005 Express and the starter kits he's been authoring for it. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Joel Semeniuk gets us deeper into Visual Studio Team System by taking us step-by-step through the process of how it is used in the real world. Each designer is discussed in as much detail as an hour affords. For introductory information about VSTS, see show #117. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Regional Director J. Michael Palermo discusses his current passion, Code Snippets in VS 2005. You'll discover how this new feature compares to tools you may have already used, and you'll probably pick up a few productivity pointers along the way. Good stuff! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

DNR goes back to its geek roots this week with a technical talk about the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Joel and Brad talk about what they would do differently knowing what they know now, how the CLR's memory managemnet strategy was formed, and their favorite features of CLR 2.0 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The listeners have asked for more technical content, and Rocky Lhotka delivers it! In this episode, Rocky talks about CSLA.NET and the changes for VS2005. He drills down into the details of some aspects of CSLA, and talks about his opinions on Service Oriented Architechture and Objects, and plenty more. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jeffrey talks about his experiences listening to .NET Rocks! while on duty with the Army Reserve in Iraq, and shares his ideas about architecture, ASP.NET, XHTML, CSS, and other things. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Richard Costall and Andy Brown talk about two large scale production applications, one Smart Client and one ASP.NET app based on the beta 2 release of VS 2005 and the Framework 2.0. Hear about how they have dealt with compatability in a heterogenous client envyronment, some praise for the Microsoft Ascend program, how they utilize Web Services and ADO.NET, and more! Support this podcast at — https...

Chris Kinsman drops in to talk about some of the projects he's been working on lately. Topics include data warehousing, SQL Integration Services, the recently released Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library, and a Compact Framework project to interface with slot machines! Cool stuff, indeed. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Russ Nemhauser talks to Carl and Richard about mobility via the Smart Phone platforms, including some model specifics, shortcomings, and differences versus the Pocket PC platform. Russ, Carl and Richard also touch on the issues with VB6 developers moving to VB.NET, and how VS 2005 could make the transition easier. They also get into some great detail about stress testing and tracking down sluggish...

In this episode, Kathleen Dollard is visiting Carl in the studio, and they get a great dynamic going while they talk about the finer points of generics and all the geeky stuff we're getting ready to sink our teeth into in the 2005 release. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

A talk with Sanjay Parthasarathy, Microsoft corporate vice president of Developer and Platform Evangelism. There are so many great nuggets in this episode.. just listen to it! We discover Sanjay is a toy boy like us. You'll hear about life at Microsoft before their current brand of evangelism took root. Also, the challenges of running a division of Microsoft that is not profit-driven. Support this...

Rob Howard- star of stage, screen, and ASP.NET- drops in to talk to Carl and Richard about ASP.NET past, present, and future. Rob shares his insights as well as a few stories from his days on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft. He also talked about his current gig with Telligent Systems, and what excites him the most about ASP.NET 2.0 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

On this show, some of the PDC planners talk about what you can expect to see! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard come at you live from Tech Ed Orlando, interviewing the Team System team. Find out what will (and won't) be included in 1.0, and get an idea what you can expect in the next version. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In this great episode of Dot Net Rocks, Michele returns once again to discuss WSE, Indigo, and Security. In particular, she discusses the challenges around keeping keys and tokens secure. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jackie Goldstein talks about Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET in this excellent discussion. We had a great time talking to Jackie Goldstein but we were only able to cover half the topics we wanted to. Look for part two later on in 2005. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We thought we were going to cover a lot of topics in this episode of Dot Net Rocks, but we managed to go over an hour without straying from Virtual PC at all. This is a must-listen show for anyone who isn't already an expert in Virtual PC or Virtual Server. Brain Randell explains the advantages and disadvantages, warns you of some potential pitfalls, and shows you how you can boost performance! Su...

He's Back! The man responsible for the IIS team, the ASP. NET team, and the visual Studio Web Tools team gives us an update on ASP.NET 2.0, IIS 7.0, and even a hint at Orcas, the next .NET rev after Whidbey Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We return to Dot Net Nuke, with Jim Duffy and Shaun Walker, who talk about the amazing pluggability and skinability of Dot Net Nuke. We discuss the changes between 2.0 and 3.0, the philosophy of Open Source development, and even get a glimpse at what we might see in the future of Dot Net Nuke. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl talks with Richard Turner and Anand Rajagapolan, Program Managers on the Indigo team to really dig into the Indigo experience. This is a great show! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Kim Tripp is back and more intense than ever. After talking about her famous USB Key demonstration of SQL 2005 partitioning, she gets into details of SQL 2005 that would make even the SQL team go "hey, that's cool!" This is one of those shows that you'll have to listen to several times to completely grasp. We know we will! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Matt Mannion from Clarity Consulting talks about the application his company developed with and for the Indy Racing League in Indianappolis, IN. Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 and VB.NET they were able to develop a great application for managing real-time racing data and reporting. Fascinating story. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Grant BlahaErath and Glenn Podany talk about the MS Platform Adoption Center: what it is and what it's used for. Sometimes called the Customer Lab, the PAC has generated some great case studies with major companies implementing Microsoft technologies. Great stories and geeking out on this show! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Scott Hanselman returns to DNR for the first time in several months. In this otherwise ASP.NET-centric show, Rory shows off his hands-free flush abilities and Scott rants about Cascading Style Sheets. A great show with more nutritional value than you might expect. Welcome back to the show, Rory! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rhocky Lhotka and Bill Vaughn return in this *live* recording of Dot Net Rocks, from the March 2005 Dev Connections conferene in Orlando, FL Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations