.NET Rocks!

Christophe Wille talks about SharpDevelop, an open-source free alternative to Visual Studio. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Scott Stanfield from Vertigo Software is back (see show #11) to talk about cultivating an aesthetic sense around software, media, and user experience. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard interview Peter Kuhn from the Scripps Institute about an application he designed to allow cancer researchers to visualize molecules and annotate them with real time collaboration. The application was written with beta versions of WPF, and champoined by Tim Huckaby's team at Interknowlogy and evangelized by Eileen Rumwell and Stephen Forte. This is an amazing success story. Support...

Carl and Richard talk with Frans Bouma, author of LLBLGen, a very popular ORM modeling and code generation tool for .NET Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk with Nick Benton and Claudio Russo from Microsoft Research UK about Polyphonic C# (now part of C-Omega) which adds asynchronous concurrency abstractions to the language. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ted Neward and Oren Eini agreed to discuss Object Relational Mapping practices at DevTeach in Montreal, Quebec May 16, 2007. This is a slightly longer show than usual, but we think you'll agree it was worth it. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rob McGovern from Infusion talks about the extremely cool Virtual Earth SDK: business cases, features, and how-to. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Eric Sink is back, this time with Martin Woodward to chat about Source Control systems and Continuous Integration. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rustan Leino discusses with Carl and Richard the features and functionality of the Spec # programming language. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Eric Evans offers his insights on good software development using Domain Driven Design techniques. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

David Barkol, Alessandro Gallo, and Rama Krishna Vavilala talk about ASP.NET AJAX, and thier upcoming book ASP.NET AJAX in Action from Manning Publications. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Frank Savage from the XNA team discusses the coolness that is XNA Game Studio Express! He also waxes poetic about his days on the Strike Commander and Wing Commander 3 teams, as well as more recent endeavors. Awesome show! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brad Abrams from the .NET Framework team is here to announce Silverlight, painting a picture of the near future as a rich media web experience. Don't miss it! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jeff Atwood from codinghorror.com tells Carl and Richard what's on his mind, including his recommended reading list, and above all the human side of software development. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard speak with Fred Chong about SaaS (Software as a Service) from the basic concepts to issues of appropriateness to products like HR and LitWare. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Ex-ASP.NET Team Member turned businessman Rob Howard tells us what he's been up to with Community Server, CodeSmith Tools, and a few other projects. As always, Rob has some great stories. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rick Brewster, the lead developer of Paint. NET, discusses the open-source paint program from the beginning to the present and into the future. It's a great story, and a great project! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Bret Updegraf shares his knowledge of SQL Reporting Services with Carl and Richard in this show. Bret is the author of SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services in Action from Manning Publishing. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Graphics guru and WPF wonk Dax Pandhi shares his thoughts on WPF, WPF/e, Expression suite in general, and Blend in particular. You'll hear the story of how Dax came to be the Pwop graphics guy as well as his contributions to the WPF community. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard talk about the ADO.NET Entity Framework, a new ORM technology from Microsoft, with Daniel Simmons, a dev lead on ADO.NET at Microsoft. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard catch up with Dan Appleman at Devconnections in Orlando. The big topic is the discoverability of pertinent information through search engines. His solution? You'll have to listen to find out. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Oren Eini, creator of Rhino Mocks, reprises his DNR tv appearance with discussions on the effectiveness and power of NHibernate, coding advantages and the joys of authoring open source work. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Bill Wagner is back to talk about C# with topics from his best-selling book, Effective C#. Bill is a multi-faceted developer, however, and the conversation turned to topics like community. Great stuff. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Michele checks in with Carl and Richard on the state of WCF. Not to be missed! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The always brilliant and delightful Kate Gregory talks with Carl and Richard about her passion, which is managed C++, as well as Vista, UAC and other things geekish. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations