.NET Rocks!

In round 11 of the Road Trip, we got to have some real Memphis barbeque AND hang out with the one and only Jon Box. Does it get any better than this??? Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Nashville was a fun town. Never seen a crowd of geeks sing Clementine to Beethoven's 9th before. It was awesome. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Our longest road trip show yet! Mark Dunn, Rory Blyth, and a host of locals contribute to the show. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

(Problem with incomplete files fixed) This is a great episode of DNR, recorded at the road trip tour in Raleigh, North Carolina! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Our stop in Washington DC was great. We got to meet some old friends, fans new and old, and speak at the coveted Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, VA; which is as cool as - or cooler than - the Boston and New York locations. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

At the Baltimore event we got to talk to a wide variety of developers using .NET. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

We were in Philadelphia, PA on Monday night, October 17th, speaking to a group organized by the Philly .NET User Group. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The Road Trip event in Edison New Jersey brought out DonXML, Miguel Castro, ScottW, and lots of other great speakers and members of the .NET community in the Edison, NJ area. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The New York City .NET Users Group hosted the Road Trip event at Microsoft in midtown Manhattan, and what a great time we had! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Now we're in full swing! We had a great event in Farmington, CT at the Connecticut .NET User Group, and got to talk to a handful of innovative members of the .NET community. I hope that all the road trip shows are this good! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

It's not much, but it's our first podcast from the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio 2005 Road Trip event in Waltham, Massachusetts on the outskirts of Boston. We'll be trying to post a show every day of the month-long Road Trip. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Mark Miller gets down and dirty with real tactics for solving problems and maximizing your efficiency as an architect and developer. Not to be missed. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard run into Miguel Castro at a hotel bar at the MVP Summit 2005 in Bellevue, WA. This is the first real show we've done on Web Controls, and it has been a long time coming. There is so much technical information in this show you'll have to listen several times at possibly a slower speed. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard interview three members of the Visual Basic team at PDC 2005. The conversation turns from favorite features of VB 2005 to LINQ to XML in VB.2005 to Orcas, best and worst moments on the VB team. We are also treated to a short after-dinner converation with Ted Pattison, George Bullock, Joe Hummel, and David Chappell. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donation...

In this episode, Carl and Richard get an hour with David Treadwell, VP of the .NET Framework Developer Division. David talks about his career at Microsoft from being the intern developer on Windows NT to his current role on the .NET Framework team, and offers his thoughts on the future of Windows and managed code. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jackie Goldstein returns to talk about the ADO.NET, the data tools in Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL 2005 Express and the starter kits he's been authoring for it. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Joel Semeniuk gets us deeper into Visual Studio Team System by taking us step-by-step through the process of how it is used in the real world. Each designer is discussed in as much detail as an hour affords. For introductory information about VSTS, see show #117. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Regional Director J. Michael Palermo discusses his current passion, Code Snippets in VS 2005. You'll discover how this new feature compares to tools you may have already used, and you'll probably pick up a few productivity pointers along the way. Good stuff! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

DNR goes back to its geek roots this week with a technical talk about the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Joel and Brad talk about what they would do differently knowing what they know now, how the CLR's memory managemnet strategy was formed, and their favorite features of CLR 2.0 Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The listeners have asked for more technical content, and Rocky Lhotka delivers it! In this episode, Rocky talks about CSLA.NET and the changes for VS2005. He drills down into the details of some aspects of CSLA, and talks about his opinions on Service Oriented Architechture and Objects, and plenty more. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jeffrey talks about his experiences listening to .NET Rocks! while on duty with the Army Reserve in Iraq, and shares his ideas about architecture, ASP.NET, XHTML, CSS, and other things. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Richard Costall and Andy Brown talk about two large scale production applications, one Smart Client and one ASP.NET app based on the beta 2 release of VS 2005 and the Framework 2.0. Hear about how they have dealt with compatability in a heterogenous client envyronment, some praise for the Microsoft Ascend program, how they utilize Web Services and ADO.NET, and more! Support this podcast at — https...

Chris Kinsman drops in to talk about some of the projects he's been working on lately. Topics include data warehousing, SQL Integration Services, the recently released Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library, and a Compact Framework project to interface with slot machines! Cool stuff, indeed. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Russ Nemhauser talks to Carl and Richard about mobility via the Smart Phone platforms, including some model specifics, shortcomings, and differences versus the Pocket PC platform. Russ, Carl and Richard also touch on the issues with VB6 developers moving to VB.NET, and how VS 2005 could make the transition easier. They also get into some great detail about stress testing and tracking down sluggish...

In this episode, Kathleen Dollard is visiting Carl in the studio, and they get a great dynamic going while they talk about the finer points of generics and all the geeky stuff we're getting ready to sink our teeth into in the 2005 release. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations