.NET Rocks!

Carl and Richard interview seven contestants in the My .NET Story contest. Enter a story about your .NET application online at www.mydotnetstory.com. The winner gets either a trip to the Galopagos Islands or a Smart Car.

Carl and Richard talk to Chris Bowen of Microsoft and Michael Cummings of Magenic on using XNA to develop games and applications for the PC, XBox and Zune.

I know! We can't believe it either. We went back over the last 100 shows and cherry picked a few of our favorite segments. Thank you for your continued support!

Lev Novik talks to Carl and Richard about the Sync Framework, a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access for applications, services, and devices with support for any data type, any data store, any transfer protocol, and any network topology.

Software Transactional Memory (shipping as part of .NET 4.0) represents the next generation in writing code that utilizes multiple cores. The best part is, the code gets much more simple!

Carl and Richard talk to Leon Gersing about his love affair with Ruby, which he so elequently spoke of as an audience member at DevLink in Nashville (show #476).

Ananth B talks about Brahma, an open-source library written for the .NET 3.5 framework (in C# 3.0), to provide high level access to parallel streaming computations on a variety of processors.

Carl and Richard talk to Roman Schindlauer on Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Microsoft's Platform for CEP using SQL Server.

Brian Noyes talks about Workflow Foundation 4.0

TweetSharp is a .NET library for developing Twitter applications. Yeah, that's what I thought too until we talked to these guys! You'll want it.

The .NET dudes talk to Nicholas Blumhardt about Autofac, an IoC container that uses lambda expressions in C# 3.0 to create components.

Miguel Castro shares his list of pet peeves.

Attack of the Canadians!! In this show Kate gets hardcore, talking about C++, VC10, the Vista Bridge, and a few other technical gems.

Carl and Richard talk with Kathleen Dollard about MEF, the future of development, and more.

Carl and Richard talk to Tess Ferrandez about her experiences as an escalation engineer at Microsoft, focusing on debugging and memory management.

Bryan Wilhite talks about his open-source projects, and his experiences in the trenches as a .NET developer. Great stories!

Oren Eini spoke to Carl and Richard at 0redev in Malmo, Sweden in November about the latest version of Rhino Mocks, Oren's mocking framework. Oren also talks about mocking in General.

Carl and Richard talk to author and developer Jon Skeet about his work with C# and Java at Google and elsewhere.

Carl and Richard talk to Steve Teixeira, Product Unit Manager for the Parallel Development Tools team within Developer Division's Parallel Computing Platform organzation at Microsoft. The conversation is mostly around the future of parallel computing highlighting offerings that Microsoft is currently working on.

Rustan Leino discusses with Carl and Richard the features and functionality of the Spec # programming language.

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.

This, our second show was recorded live from the Microsoft Offices in Waltham, MA at the montly meeting of the .NET User Group of Greater Boston. Carl and Mark interview Daniel Appleman of Desaware, Inc. Dan shares his insights into .NET and offers advice to shops looking at moving to .NET. Topics include Interop, obfuscators, assemblies and memory, performance, C# vs VB.NET, State Machines, and m...