.NET Rocks!

Ken Getz comes back for round 2 with .NET Rocks! talking about new features of VB.NET 2005, SharePoint and WSS, wireless service, and toys! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

World-renowned author and trainer Paul Sheriff talks with Carl and Richard about all things architecture: what, why, when, where, and how. Even if you have no plans to move beyond the cowboy way of software development, this discussion will make you think. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This is a great show on what's coming in Longhorn technology, namely Indigo, Avalon, and XAML, and compatibility. We get to the heart of what the term "Managed OS" really means. Jeff Sandquist tries to decide whether or not to shave his mustache. He's had it since he was 16. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Chris Maxwell and Randy Kim from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration talk about their recent .NET project, World Wind, an educational and informational tool for viewing planet Earth (and other planets). The program was written in Visual Studio .NET with managed DirectX, and is open source. Geoff steps out from behind the sound board and ends up asking most of the really good question...

Mark Miller returns again, and is in the studio with Carl talking about his sordid past with Delphi, some development choices he's made, pair porgramming, and GDI+ Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We have arrived at our 100th show! Richard Campbell, Mark Dunn, Nick Landry, Geoff Maciolek, and Chris Sells join Carl in this look at shows past, present, and future. Lots of fun and you'll learn a few things too, as we always do. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

New York Regional Director Stephen Forte talks with Carl and Rory about many cool things, including SQL Server 2005 (Yukon). He's got some good advice for how to get the most out of it. As well, the conversation turned to clustering and RAID strategies. This was a great talk with one of the Northeast's sharpest .NET minds, not to mention mountain climbers and extreme... well, let's just say he's e...

As the original co-host of .NET Rocks!, mark didn't say all that much. Well, look out! He's talking about his current passions, ADO.NET 2.0 and BizTalk 2004, and we can't shut him up! This is a great conversation with a true ADO.NET expert. Mark has a knack for explaining complex ideas in a very natural and easy manner. If you still don't get BizTalk, this is the show to listen to. Mark explains w...

Carl and Rory catch up after Rory's long haitus. Topics include Smartphone programming, responding to an article blasting OOP, and much more. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Independent Software developer and Visual C# MVP Robert Hurlbut joins Carl in the studio this week for a discussion about security, least-privileged development, and the SQL 2005 Service Broker. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rob Barker from microsoft engages Carl and Rory in a conversation about leveraging Infopath, the Information Bridge Framework, and Visual Studio Tools for Office 2003 to develop smart clients. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Bernard Wong from MSDN talks with Carl and Rory this week. What's on his mind? For starters, the old and tired questions asked of him at developer conferences, what Bill and Steve really say at those high level meetings in Redmond, amrchair CEOs, and other observations. Bernard always has great stories to tell. This is the last show of 2004. We'll be back on January 10th, 2005! Until then, we hope...

Brian Larson talks to Carl and Rory, who is recovering from being sick and on the road, about SQL Reporting Services: architecture, cool features, innovative uses, performance tips, new features in SQL 2005 Reporting Services, and Business Intelligence opportunities in SQL 2005. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While Rory is living it up in Vegas Carl interviews seven Microsoft program managers and evanglists about the current state of Windows Server 2003 as well as what's on tap for future releases; 64-bit computing and why it's so cool; server security, and J2EE to .NET migration. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Billy Hollis went beyond the general smart client discussion we usually have and dug into architecure issues. What works? What doesn't work? Listen to Billy's stories from the field and learn from his experience. Awesome show. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Julie Lerman talks about her recent experiences with the Base Class Library 2.0, Tablet PC development and ADO.NET 2.0. She also talks about her professional life before software development, which may come as a bit of a shock. All-in-all it was a good conversation. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dare we say the future? This show was originally intended to be a discussion about Java and Spring. NET with Mark Pollack. Then Ted was invited, and he invited Don. The result is an almost two hour discussion of Java and .NET. This is definitely going to be a classic. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Kate Gregory talks to Carl (in this retro interview-only show) about the new C++, why she prefers VB.NET over C#, Visual Studio Tools for Office, OOP, Sockets, and merry old England! This is the first of our attempt to make .NET Rocks! more geeky and less freaky! We hope you like it! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Microsoft Product Manager for Visual Basic. NET, Jay Roxe drops by to talk about his work on the .NET Framework including System. Object, System. String, and System. Text. StringBuilder. In the second half he talks about VB.NET 2005, about the decisions Microsoft made regarding features and ship dates, and about how he thinks VB.NET 2005 will go a long way toward making .NET accessible to the mass...

Juval Löwy joins Carl, Rory, and the gang this week for a romp through .NET 2.0 in all its glory. Juval talks about serialization now and in 2.0, the new System. Transaction namespace and how cool it really is, putting System. EnterpriseServices in perspective, some quick lip service to generics (although he discussed that in show #34), and a little criticism of the new Visual Studio 2005. Thom Ro...

We try to have representatives from Microsoft on the show every once in a while to talk about what's happening in Redmond. This week we had four program managers for the Evangelism team: Scott Burmester, Steve Cellini, Carter Maslan, and Jeff Sandquist. The topic? Whidbey! We get a check up on the progress of the next version of .NET. We talked at length about the up-and-coming Visual Studio 2005...

.NET Rocks! regular guest (and guest host) Chris Sells joins Carl and the gang for a really fun discussion (after he comments on the mail and news) about Longhorn and WinFX, Longhorn features on XP, working on the MSDN Smart Client DevCenter, VS.NET 2005, learning about new technologies, learning by teaching, and Avalon. He answers some good technical questions from live listeners, and overall mak...

Noted author and software engineer Fritz Onion is our guest this week on .NET Rocks! After lavishing praise on F.O. for what seemed an eternity, Carl and Rory get down to the HTTP Pipeline, the HTTPContext, User Controls, Web Controls, and what Fritz likes (and dislikes) about the current beta of ASP.NET 2.0. Among other accomplishments, Fritz is the author of the best-selling Essential ASP.NET pu...

Industry guru Richard Hale Shaw talks to the guys about what's on his mind. Namely, patterns, practices, anti-practices and anti-patterns, best practices, patterns in .NET, the future of C++ and managed code, VB6 as the ultimate anti-pattern, lack of OOP in ASP.NET 1.1, and looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0. We also listened to a bit of one of Richard's favorite tunes, What is Hip by Tower of Power....

Joe Stagner stopped by to talk about his recent experiences at BorCon, experiences with the Open Source community, Java, and Delphi. In the second half we talked about Rory joining the MSDN evangelism team, VB.NET 2005, the CLR 2.0, XP Service Pack 2 and website security. Joe did a session at TechEd 2004 called "How Hackers Hack" which was the number two highest-attended session! This was a great...