.NET Rocks!

Tim Huckaby talks about developing for Avalon, AJAX, and Vista in general. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Rocky Lhotka discusses his CSLA.NET application framework version 2.0. New features, changes, and migration tips. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Get some deep insight into the tools and the techniques that make Test Driven Development an important new tool for developers. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Pat Hynds checks in with us to talk ASP.NET security sharing his latest insights and telling stories from the field. As always, Pat brings his post-GI point of view to the conversation, which is always enjoyable. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard have an engaging conversation with Joe Duffy from the CLR team on dealing with concurrency in multi-threaded applications. Buy his books! This is great stuff! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Our old friend Nickolas Landry talks about the latest developments in mobile technology, both hardware and software, including Windows Mobile 5.0 and the Compact Framework 2.0 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Brian Noyes talks us through data binding in .NET 2.0 from the gee-whiz draggy droppy stuff to multi-tier enterprise applications. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Regional Director Barry Gervin introduces LINQ, a nascent set of language extentions providing query services for list-based objects. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Steven Forte shares his experiences with outsourcing and the different countries involved in software outsourcing. Of course, his stories are second to none. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Dunn joins Carl and Richard in the studio for another look at Infopath, framed for .NET developers. Mark, as you may remember, is the first co-host of .NET Rocks! and a good friend of the show. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Australian Regional Director Adam Cogan is known for his rules. In fact, if you work for his software company you can expect to get up every morning at 6AM for exercises. You'll also have to digest hundreds and hundreds of best practices and rules that he has compiled from his many years in the software business. In this show we point you to the rules, and even discuss a few of them. Not to be mis...

This week Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell interview Shawn Wildermuth about his experiences in the trenches with ADO.NET. He's down on datasources as a one-size-fits-all solution to data access. He talks about his upcoming book in which he attempts to organize projects into archetypes, and helps the reader determine which archetype thier project is closest to, so he can give his recommendations....

Chris Sells rings in the new year by telling us about his current passion, Model-Driven Development (MDD) and associated concepts. Oh yeah, we also talk about big honkin' plasma TVs. Chris asks "what should I get?" Richard sets him straight. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

David Smith talks to Richard and Carl about btSharp, his .NET implementation of the BitTorrent protocol written in C#. He also gives a great introduction to BitTorrent and how it works, and offers some insight on how IPv6 will make our lives easier. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Andrew Brust talks to us about OLAP and BI, specifically about the new features of SQL Server 2005. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Deborah Kurata; star of stage, screen, and print; gives us the good, the bad, and the ugly about object binding, and covers other topics such as typed datasets, migration issues, and code generation. This is our first normal show since we've been back from our travels, and we have a few things to talk about ourselves. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Only a week after returning from a 30-day trip through the interior of the American heartland, we found ourselves in Merry Old England speaking at and attending the VBUG Winter Conference. Carl moderated a Code-Off in which four developers each created a user interface for a system of web services, each using a different technology. They then showed off those applications in a very small window of...

Before we went on the road we spoke to Mark Miller about component-oriented architecture and other related topics. We wanted to finish what we started with Mark, and move on to Graphics programming, especially in the DXCore, a free component toolkit from Developer Express that CodeRush and Refactor use extensively. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Well we finally got to San Francisco to the very first Visual Studio 2005 launch event. We walked around and found some old friends to talk to. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The road trip is finishing up! This is the last show before the launch. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

San Diego is home to a handful of thriving .NET developer communities. We ran into some old friends there, and got some great stories. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We met up with Regional Director J. Michael Palermo and a cast of other characters in Phoenix, Arizona. It's hot, but .... well... you know. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We spent the weekend in Austin, Texas. Although it was a small crowd at the University, we got to speak to 8 developers including Jeff Palermo, Scott Bellware, and Mark Miller. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

There was a big crowd at the Houston event. We had a great time talking to the locals after the show. Markus Egger showed up and managed to sit behind the microphone for a few minutes too. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Dallas was great. For the second time in a row we didn't have to eat Pizza for dinner. One of the attendees told me (Carl) after the show that I had "no fear" to be able to get up in front of people and sing Clementine like... well... you know. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations