.NET Rocks!

Carl and Richard talk to Frans Bouma about his thoughts on the ORM revolution, his products, and the Entity Framework. Great stuff! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard catch up with Rev. Billy (just kidding, Billy) to talk about the state of WPF and Silverlight 2.0. Billy always has great stories from the field, and real-world insight. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Richard and Carl talk to Michael Isard about Dryad, a grid computing and clustering project from Microsoft. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher about their work with F# and separate truth from fiction about functional languages. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and guest co-host Mark Dunn talk with Charles Petzold about the life of the father of modern computing, Alan Turing. Charles talks about his book, "The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine.", and also discusses writing books, blogs, and online media. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

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. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

While at TechEd 2008 in Orlando Carl and Richard recorded this interview with Glenn Block from Microsoft and Brian Noyes from iDesign about the Prism project, formally named Composite Application Guidance, which promises to simplify and organize WPF development projects. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brian Randell and Martin Woodward talk about Team Foundation Server 2008, and all the goodness within. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard break out the microphone during Karaoke night (don't worry) at the DoubleTree bar in Murphreesboro, TN, to talk to staff and attendees of the devLink Technical Conference (August 22-23). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk to Thiago Silva about the new features of Reporting Services for SQL Server 2008. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Richard and Carl talk to Microsoft Executive S. Somasegar about his experiences at Microsoft from his early days working on systems like OS/2, NT, Windows 2000 to overseeing the Developer Division of Microsoft. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dan Simmons is back with Stephen Forte, a member of the EF Advisory Council, a group of outsiders who were brought in to help shape future direction for the EF. You might be surprised at who else was on the council, and what they are thinking about for the next version. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Steven Smith talk with Carl and Mark Dunn about changing careers from software developer to small business owner. All three have made the jump and share their experiences. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Udi Dahan is back to talk to the guys about scaling web applications. This is an area of expertise for Richard as well as Udi, so you know you'll get your money's worth out of this one! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Dunn joins Carl for this fun look back at the history of computers with Eric Swedin, author of Computers: The Life Story of a Technology. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Entity Framework v1 has shipped! Carl and Richard talk to Danny Simmons about it. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Charles Stacy Harris talks about technologies used to automate his home using .NET interfaces. Geek out! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard catch up with Kate Gregory to talk Vista, VB, C++, and her latest thoughts and experiences. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

James Kovacs talks about the Castle Windsor project, and gives the clearest definitions of Inversion of Control (IOC) containers, Dependency Injection, and the reasons why we need to think about these techniques. Critical listening for all .NET developers. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jeff Richter is back to talk about how Windows manages memory, from the early versions of Windows to the .NET Framework. Geek out! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ted Neward and Joel Pobar talk about Rotor, the open source .net framework reference implementation. Ted and Joel have written a book on Rotor 2.0 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brian Randell is back to talk about Microsoft Virtualization technologies focusing on Hyper-V, the kernel-level virtualization technology built into Windows Server 2008. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

This is as close to Jerry Springer as we get! A great panel discussion from TechEd 2008 about balancing software quality with other factors such as cost and time taken. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard get the skinny from Nathan Pocock on OPC (open process collabaration), and the advances made using OPC as a comprehensive interface with PLCs (programmable logic controllers). Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard host a panel discussion at the TechEd Online stage at TechEd 2008, subtitled How I Learned to Love Dim. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations