.NET Rocks!

Carl and Richard host a panel discussion on Windows Presentation Foundation at DevReach in Sofia Bulgaria. Panelists: Tim Huckaby, Brian Noyes, and Todd Anglin. Chad Hower made a cameo appearance as well. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ken Getz checked in to talk about the latest in VSTO, and then the converstaion turned geeky. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Eli Lopian about how mocking the right way can produce isolation in your test environment, allowing for more effective unit testing. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Venkat shares his passionate reasoning as to why dynamic languages (with good unit tests) are the way of the future. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mike Griffin, creator of MyGeneration and EntitySpaces, talks with Carl and Richard about EntitySpaces, a persistence layer and business object system for the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework, as well as his experiences with LINQ and other technologies. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jack Herrington talks browser coding: everything from JavaScript to Flash to Silverlight, if it's done in the browser Jack does it. He brings his experiences from Macromedia to the discussion, but make no mistake. Jack loves .NET! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Charlie Calvert and Beth Massi spend their 60 minutes of fame talking about what they love about Orcas, how VB.NET is cool again, and what on earth are all those FoxPro people going to do with their free time. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mike Azocar and John Cook talk to Carl and Richard about using Virtualization for software testing. Of particular interest is the new features of the next version of Virtual PC. Carl also brings up the VPC vs VMWare issue. You have to listen to find out more! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Scott Cate talks about using the Model View Presenter pattern in ASP.NET, as well as his latest software creations and ventures. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Don Demsak (DonXML) discusses LINQ to XML and the new XML language features in Visual Basic. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Erik Meijer (a.k.a. the Head in the Box) talks to Carl and Richard in detail about LINQ from soup to nuts. This is a very technical discussion, and not an overview. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Larry O'Brien talks with Richard and Carl about how up and coming CPU architecture is going to invalidate current methods of concurrency programming, and what we can do about it. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Vishwas Lele talks about thinking of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server as an application platform for .NET development. With all of the power and flexibility of MOSS, it can no longer be categorized simply as a web portal. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Michael Dunn tells Carl and Richard about Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 which has incorporated Live Communication Server with Speech Server. Speech Server is one of the key development elements of OCS, providing the ability for .NET developers to build applications that can both speak and understand speech with minimal coding. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/dona...

Jon Harrop introduces Carl and Richard to F#, a functional language that runs under the CLR. F# performs like C#, but being a functional language, has interactive scripting (similar to Python) but is rooted in the strong type inference and safety that other functional languages like ML focus on. Being in the CLR means you can build certain parts of your application in F# and then reference them fr...

Remi Caron, one of the organizers of the SDC conference in the Netherlands, tells Richard and Carl how using standard toolsets and software packages helps him stay focused on his customers' software problems and deliver more powerful solutions faster. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Donald Farmer talks about data mining with SQL Server and related technologies, including a fascinating discussion about using algorithms for predicting future trends. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Udi Dahan calls in from Israel to talk common sense about SOA. His pragmatic approach to the topic is refreshing and timely. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to David Hayden about the new features of the Microsoft Enterprise Library 3 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his work with Subtext (a derivative of the .Text blog software package) and his work on various open source projects. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Anand Raman and David Wright about Sandcastle, an internal tool for generating code documentation that is now available to the general public. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dan Ciruli of Digipede Technologies is back to bring us up to date with Digipede Networks, a .NET toolset for enabling grid computing. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Shawn Wildermuth talks to Richard and Carl about Silverlight from the .NET developer's persepective. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard discuss with Marcus his new product Xiine, a next gen digital reading platform, DRM and the current state of publishing. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Nick Landry from Infusion calls in to discuss his experiences with (and knowledge of) the somewhat new Microsoft Robotics Studio. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations