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It's The 500th Freakin Show!

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!

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Lev Novik on the Microsoft Sync Framework

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.

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Stephen Forte in The Netherlands

Carl and Richard welcome Stephen Forte back to the show, this time in front of a small audience at SDC in Arnhem, The Netherlands. The discussion focuses on living as a developer in the modern digital world.

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Live from DevReach, Sofia, Bulgaria

Recorded in front of a live audience at DevReach Bulgaria, Carl and Richard talk to Christian Weyer, Shawn Wildermuth, and Hadi Hariri about Silverlight, Data Transports, and whatever else was on their minds.

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Dean Guo Takes Us Into Project Trident

The boys talk to Dean Gou about Project Trident, a scientific workflow workbench. With Project Trident, you can author workflows visually by using a catalog of existing activities and complete workflows. The workflow workbench provides a tiered library that hides the complexity of different workflow activities and services for ease of use.

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Vittorio Bertocci authenticates us with WIF

Vittorio Bertocci goes over Windows Identity Foundation (Geneva) from a developer's perspective.

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Chris Sells in on DataDude

Carl and Richard catch up with Chris Sells at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria a couple weeks ago. Chris is all about Data Dude, the Visual Studio edition for Database Professionals. Great show on all counts.

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Doug Seven on Visual Studio 2010

Doug Seven talks to the boys about Visual Studio 2010. In particular, pricing, features, and the launch.

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Aaron Skonnard Builds a Real Cloud App

Aaron Skonnard talks about his experiences building a real application in the cloud.

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Francesco Balena on VB to .NET Migration

Francesco Balena talks about his groundbreaking work in migrating VB6 applications to VB.NET

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Donald Farmer on Gemini

Carl and Richard talk to Donald Farmer about Project Gemini, which brings Analysis Services to Excel in a very elegant way.

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Shawn Wildermuth on Declarative UI

Shawn Wildermuth talks about the importance and significance of declarative User Interfaces in the context of WPF and Silverlight.

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Mark Miller and Billy Hollis on UI

Mark Miller and Billy Hollis go head to head on User Interface. The conversation ranges from WPF and Silverlight to Visual Studio and Blend to whatever else they felt like talking about...

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Dana Groff and Yossi Levanoni Talk STM

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!

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Michelle Leroux Bustamante on Web Security

MLB is back to talk to Carl and Richard about the Claims-Based Security Model.

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Steven Borg on All Things Team System

Steven Borg talks about his experiences delivering solutions with Microsoft Team System, with a special focus on automated builds.

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Giving the Gift of Technology

Philip Japikse talks about his experiences working on Hope Mongers, a volunteer-run asp.net-based website that brings charity projects together with donators.

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Kent Tegels on SQL Server Integration Services

This conversation with Kent Tegels starts with SSIS and goes from there, like most good .NET Rocks! shows.

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Leon Gersing is Having a Love Affair with Ruby!

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

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Martin Woodward on Team System

Today's show is a previously recorded conversation with Martin Woodward about Team System.

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Microsoft battles HIV!

Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Carlson, Bob Davidson, David Heckerman, and Carl Kadie from Microsoft Research about their efforts to find vaccines for HIV using Microsoft technologies.

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Hall and McWherter Test ASP.NET!

Ben Hall and Jeff McWherter talk with Carl and Richard about testing ASP.NET applications.

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John Petersen on the Legal Side of Software!

John Petersen talks about software patents, End User License Agreements, contracts, and other pains in the backside that we'd rather not think about.

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Chris Menegay uses TFS for ALM!

Chris Menegay is back to talk about using Team Foundation Server for ALM (Application Lifecycle Management).

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Panel: Is Software Development Too Complex?

Recorded live at devLink in Nashville, Tennessee. Billy Hollis, Kathleen Dollard, Jim Holmes, and Josh Holmes (no relation) discuss the issue of the complexity of software development. Several .NET celebrities in the audience also chimed in.

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James Kovacs on Convention over Configuration

James Kovacs is back to talk about how the idea of Convention over Configuration has transformed the way we think about software development, leading to better usability and productivity.

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Christian Gross: Death of the Speaker?

Christian Gross talks about the nascent death of the professional speaker. What is happening to the big technical conferences? How does that fare for the pro speaker? Are the glory days over? Does anyone care?

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Joel Semeniuk on the State of Team System

Joel Semeniuk is back to catch us up on Visual Studio Team System. Problems solved and features yet to come.

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Steve Evans on IT for Developers

Steve Evans talks to Richard and Carl about what developers need to know on the IT side of technology.

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Vishwas Lele on Real-World Azure

Vishwas is back to talk about his experiences programming for Microsoft Windows Azure. Vishwas did a port of the famous DinnerNow website using the Azure cloud computing platform.

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Nate Kohari on the Zen of Project Management!

Carl and Richard talk to Nate Kohari about lean project management, and Zen, a lean project management tool.

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Brad Cunningham on Touch Technology

Brad Cunningham talks about developing touch-based applications, and the various technologies manufacturers are using for touch-based applications.

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Glenn Howes Sets Us Straight on iPhone Dev!

Alert listener and iPhone developer Glenn Howes gives us the real story on iPhone development from a different perspective.

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Kiciman and Friedman Bring AjaxView to Studio!

Emre Kiciman and Mark Friedman talk about bringing AjaxView to Visual Studio. Emre previously talked about AjaxView on .NET Rocks when it was a Microsoft Research project to enable developers to profile the behavior of JavaScript on the browser. Since then, AjaxView has been developed as the Microsoft Visual Studio AJAX Profiling Extensions. Mark as part of the Studio team focused on making AjaxView work in Studio. The conversation not only digs into what AjaxView can do for a developer, bu ...

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Ananth B on Brahma!

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.

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Roman Schindlauer on Complex Events

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

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Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms

Aaron Erickson talks with Carl and Richard about the various 7 anti-patterns of the tech consulting business. His book is a veritable survival guide for consultants.

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Brian Noyes on Workflow 4.0

Brian Noyes talks about Workflow Foundation 4.0

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Paul Stubbs on Silverlight in Sharepoint

Pual Stubbs from Microsoft talks about the marriage of Silverlight and Sharepoint.

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Stephen Forte on Data Access Options

Forte is back talking about all the options .NET developers have for data access, and gives some guidelines as to when to use what.

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Scott Ambler on the Agile Process Maturity Model

Scott Ambler from IBM talks about the Agile Process Maturity Model, which defines three levels of Agile methodology.

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Michael Stiefel on Cloud Computing

Michael Stiefel is back to talk about the realities of Cloud Computing including offerings from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft Azure.

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Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack at NDC!

Carl and Richard talked to Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack live on stage at the Norweigian Developer's Conference last week about new and cool toys and technology.

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Sahil Malik's Sharepoint Checklist

Sahil Malik tells us what every developer should know about Sharepoint.

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Jason Diller and Daniel Crenna on TweetSharp

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.

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Paul Randal on Developers and Databases

We catch up with Paul Randal, previously with the Microsoft SQL Server team, about all the little details of SQL Server all developers should know.

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Rory does iPhones!

Rory Blyth comes back to .NET Rocks! with stories of a .NET developer turned iPhone developer. Learn how the other half lives!

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Peter Vogel uses Code Generation

Peter Vogel talks about code generation pros, cons, technologies, and strategies from Visual Studio to T4

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Eric Lee Builds Great Demos and WF2WPF

Eric Lee from Microsoft talks about his experiences developing live demos for the likes of Steve Ballmer

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Dan Simmons Talks EF Version 4

Daniel Simmons is back this time to talk about the new features of ADO.NET Entity Framework version 4.

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Nicholas Blumhardt on Autofac

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

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Axum!

Carl and Richard talk to Nickolas Gustafsson and Josh Phillips about Axum, a new language developed specifically for parallelism.

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Ten Things that Annoy Miguel Castro

Miguel Castro shares his list of pet peeves.

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Peter DeBetta and Adam Machanic on creating good SQL databases

Peter and Adam talk about creating good SQL Server databases. We figured it was about time we did a good old fashioned data show!

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Doug Turnure and Johanna White are Ramping Up!

Doug Turnure and Johanna White talk about the Ramp Up, an online program that assists users in learning Microsoft technology.

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Kenn Scribner on REST

Carl and Richard talk to Kenn Scribner about REST, its origins and intended uses.

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Ted Neward on Oracle buying Sun

Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward about Sun being bought by Oracle, and other musings in the Java space.

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Kate Gregory Still Programs in C++!

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

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Dino Esposito Gets Architectural!

Dino Esposito is back to share his latest thoughts about architecture.

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Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight 3.0

Shawn Wildermuth talks about the new features in Silverlight 3.0. Shawn brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the table. Lots of great tips!

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Jeff Atwood talks Stack Overflow

Carl and Richard talk with Jeff Atwood about Stack Overflow and effective problem solving solutions.

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Jonas Follesø on UI Framework Choices

Jonas Follesø of Norway talks to Carl and Richard about which User Interface we chose for our applications. ASP.NET Ajax, Silverlight 3, WPF, Windows Forms) and his insights into these technologies.

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Pat Hynds on why projects fail

Patrick Hynds (our first guest) is back to talk about his experiences and research on why software projects fail. New statistics show that even with agile methodologies such as Test-Driven-Development, most software projects still fail.

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Bob Beauchemin Gets Spatial in SQL Server 2008!

Bob Beauchemin talks to Carl and Richard about spatial data types in SQL Server 2008, and the types of applications that lend themselves well to it. He also discusses the similarities and differences of the spatial data support in Virtual Earth.

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Kathleen Dollard on MEF and More!

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

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Don Kiely on AJAX at DevConnections!

Recorded live at DevConnections Orlando 2009, Don Kiely is back to talk about AJAX old and new (ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 is just out), and a few other things on his mind.

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Arun Kishan on The Windows Kernel

Carl and Richard talk to Arun Kishan about all things Windows. The OS kernel is a mystery to most. This is a laid back discussion about Windows from a developers point of view.

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Phil Haack on ASP.NET MVC RTM!!

There's some acronym soup for ya! Phil talks about the differences in the MVP and MVC patterns, some other patterns emerging out of MVP, and of course the ASP.NET MVC Framework, recently released to manufacturing by Microsoft!

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Catching up with Russ Fustino

Russ Fustino is back in the limelight with a new TV show "It's All About The Tools" He talks about his experiences on the road, as one of the busiest evangelists at Microsoft.

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Jim Duffy Lives on a Virtual Earth

Jim Duffy offers up the latest and greatest about Virtual Earth. You may be surprised about what you can do with it!

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Jim Duffy Lives on a Virtual Earth

Jim Duffy offers up the latest and greatest about Virtual Earth. You may be surprised about what you can do with it!

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Abrams and Kothari Talk MIX09!

Brad Abrams and Nikhil Kothari are back to fill us in on what was announced and discussed at Mix 2009!

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Michael Foord Talks IronPython

Michael Foord talks with the .NET Dudes about IronPython and Python.

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Mike Nash Talks IE8 and Windows 7!

Carl and Richard talk to Mike Nash from the Windows Platform Strategy group about IE8, Windows 7, and everything else that goes on day to day in the life of a Corporate VP.

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Tess Ferrandez on Debugging

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

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Rob Boucher on Application Architecture Guidance!

Rob Boucher talks about a very helpful (and free!) application architecture guide contributed to by the who's who in the .NET Community, both inside and outside of Microsoft. You'll pick up some great tips. Writers: J.D. Meier (Project Lead), Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr., Akshay Bogawat, Praveen Rangarajan (Test), and Dennis Rea (Edit).

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Rob Boucher on Application Architecture Guidance!

Rob Boucher talks about a very helpful (and free!) application architecture guide contributed to by the who's who in the .NET Community, both inside and outside of Microsoft. You'll pick up some great tips. Writers: J.D. Meier (Project Lead), Alex Homer, David Hill, Jason Taylor, Prashant Bansode, Lonnie Wall, Rob Boucher Jr., Akshay Bogawat, Praveen Rangarajan (Test), and Dennis Rea (Edit).

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Lee Zuckett on the Customer Care Framework

Lee Zuckett from Microsoft talks about the Microsoft Customer Care Framework, which helps companies create valuable customer relationships by improving the customer experience across all interaction channels -phone, e-mail, chat, and web-bringing together disparate information from different applications into one view, without having to re-enter the same information.

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Lee Zuckett on the Customer Care Framework

Lee Zuckett from Microsoft talks about the Microsoft Customer Care Framework, which helps companies create valuable customer relationships by improving the customer experience across all interaction channels -phone, e-mail, chat, and web-bringing together disparate information from different applications into one view, without having to re-enter the same information.

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Andrew Brust Talks BI

Andrew is back to talk about the state of Business Intelligence technology.

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Andrew Brust Talks BI

Andrew is back to talk about the state of Business Intelligence technology.

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Catching up with Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro brings us up to date on ADO.NET Data Services, offline data, REST services, cloud computing, and more.

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Catching up with Pablo Castro

Pablo Castro brings us up to date on ADO.NET Data Services, offline data, REST services, cloud computing, and more.

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Doug Crockford

Doug Crockford talks about Javascript, JSON and more!

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Doug Crockford

Doug Crockford talks about Javascript, JSON and more!

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Derik Whittaker on nHibernate

Carl and Richard talk to Derik Whittaker about some of the supporting tools for nHibernate, such as FluentNHibernate, a DSL for nHibernate.

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Derik Whittaker on nHibernate

Carl and Richard talk to Derik Whittaker about some of the supporting tools for nHibernate, such as FluentNHibernate, a DSL for nHibernate.

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Alan Stevens on Community 2.0

Carl and Richard talk to Alan Stevens about his involvement with the .NET community, and the wider developer community.

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Alan Stevens on Community 2.0

Carl and Richard talk to Alan Stevens about his involvement with the .NET community, and the wider developer community.

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Brian Noyes on the State of WPF and More

The always-thoughtful Brian Noyes shares his thoughts on the state of WPF, Silverlight, WF, and WCF.

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Brian Noyes on the State of WPF and More

The always-thoughtful Brian Noyes shares his thoughts on the state of WPF, Silverlight, WF, and WCF.

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Coding for Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek

Dan and Brian talk about the fun projects they've created for their Coding for Fun book, the blog, the website, and all that goes with it.

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Coding for Fun with Dan Fernandez and Brian Peek

Dan and Brian talk about the fun projects they've created for their Coding for Fun book, the blog, the website, and all that goes with it.

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Catching up with Rocky Lhotka

Carl and Richard talk to Rocky about his new book as well as his thoughts on Oslo, DSLs, Windows Home Server, and Windows 7.

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Catching up with Rocky Lhotka

Carl and Richard talk to Rocky about his new book as well as his thoughts on Oslo, DSLs, Windows Home Server, and Windows 7.

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Bryan Wilhite Speaks!

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

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Bryan Wilhite Speaks!

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

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Aslam Khan talks Design

Aslam Khan tells us his thoughts on good software design, focusing on the domain, resisting prototypes and big design up front. He also shares his thoughts about Software as a Service.

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Aslam Khan talks Design

Aslam Khan tells us his thoughts on good software design, focusing on the domain, resisting prototypes and big design up front. He also shares his thoughts about Software as a Service.

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Interviews from Codemash 2009

Carl and Richard interview Joe Fiorini, Jonathan Penn, Josh Walsh, and Andrew Kavanaugh about winning the 2008 Rails Rumble contest; then Chris Marinos and Mike Woelmer about their Paint Wars XNA game; and finally Corey Haines about his Pair Programming Tour.

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Interviews from Codemash 2009

Carl and Richard interview Joe Fiorini, Jonathan Penn, Josh Walsh, and Andrew Kavanaugh about winning the 2008 Rails Rumble contest; then Chris Marinos and Mike Woelmer about their Paint Wars XNA game; and finally Corey Haines about his Pair Programming Tour.

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Mark Dunn Interviews at TechEd Europe 2008

Mark Dunn joins Carl and Richard to review some of the interviews he did at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Spain in November, 2008. On board are Bob Beauchemin, John Flanders, Pat Helland, Richard Pawson, and Jay Roxe.

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Mark Dunn Interviews at TechEd Europe 2008

Mark Dunn joins Carl and Richard to review some of the interviews he did at TechEd EMEA in Barcelona, Spain in November, 2008. On board are Bob Beauchemin, John Flanders, Pat Helland, Richard Pawson, and Jay Roxe.

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Live from CodeMash 2009!

Carl and Richard talk to an esteemed panel of experts about Rich Internet Applications, focusing on web-based apps at CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, OH.

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Live from CodeMash 2009!

Carl and Richard talk to an esteemed panel of experts about Rich Internet Applications, focusing on web-based apps at CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, OH.

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Ward Bell on ORMs.

Ward Bell offers his opinion of Object Relational Mappers, the Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, and Silverlight.

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Ward Bell on ORMs.

Ward Bell offers his opinion of Object Relational Mappers, the Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, and Silverlight.

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Uncle Bob at Oredev

Carl and Richard catch up with Bob Martin at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden. Topics range from debugging to software quality. Great show.

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Uncle Bob at Oredev

Carl and Richard catch up with Bob Martin at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden. Topics range from debugging to software quality. Great show.

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Nick Hodges on Delphi.NET

Carl and Richard talk to Nick Hodges about Delphi.NET.

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Nick Hodges on Delphi.NET

Carl and Richard talk to Nick Hodges about Delphi.NET.

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James Whittaker Takes Testing Seriously

James Whittaker brings a practical approach to testing, and his viewpoint may surprise you.

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Ted Neward at Oredev

Ted Neward talk to Richard and Carl about Scala and other languages on stage at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden. Oren Eine was in the audience and got a good question in.

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Catching up with Scott Bellware

Carl and Richard sit down with Scott Bellware at Oredev in Malmo, Sweden.

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Cangialosi and Mariani on Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX)

Anthony Cangialosi and Rico Mariani talk with Richard and Carl about Visual Studio Extensibility and the VS Ecosystem, and a little bit about IdeaBlade.

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The State of Silverlight witih Tim Heuer

Tim Heuer from the Silverlight team at Microsoft talks to Carl and Richard about the current state of Silverlight, and offers his perspective on using Silverlight among other things.

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David Aiken on Azure

David Aiken is back, this time to lay down the skinny on Azure. What can you do with it? What doesn't it do? All this and more! Now how much would you pay???

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Catching up with Oren Eini

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.

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Oslo is Love with Chris Sells

Chris Sells is here to explain Oslo for real. Don and Doug couldn't really dig deep into Oslo before the PDC, but now that it has been announced, Chris is here to splain it to everyone in clear English.

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Show 400!

Carl and Richard look back on the last year joined by a cast of former guests and conference speakers in the hotel bar at the Marriott Chateau Champlain in Montreal while at DevTeach. WARNING: Unbleeped F-Bombs!

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The HP TouchSmart!

Carl and Richard talk to Irwin Kwan, PM on TouchSmart team at Hewlett-Packard; Oluf Nissen, Dev on the TouchSmart team; Muffi Ghadiali, marketing for HP Touchsmart Software; and Matt Whitlock from Capable Networks, developer of www.touchsmartcommunity.com, a site dedicated to the TouchSmart community. HP has just released a set of development guidelines for the TouchSmart. Check it out!

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Glenn Block on MEF

Glenn Block talk to Carl and Richard about Microsoft MEF (Managed Extensibility Framework), which provides scalable extensibility for any application.

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Michael Feathers talks Legacy Code

Carl and Richard talk to Michael Feathers about how to bring legacy code (that which has no testing code coverage) into the 21st century.

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The Future of Web Development Panel

Recorded live at Devreach in Sofia, Bulgaria, this is a discussion with Miguel Castro, Todd Anglin, Shawn Wildermuth, and Steven Smith. Mark Dunn filled in for Richard.

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Mark Miller on UX Live at DevConnections Vegas

Mark Miller has more to say about what makes for good User Interface and User Experience. Recorded live in front of an audience at DevConnections in Last Vegas, NV November 12th, 2008

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Costall and McMahon on Community in Britain

Richard Costall and Dave McMahon join the boys for a discussion centering on their efforts to build community in Great Britain and beyond.

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Ron Jacobs on C# 4.0

Ron Jacobs finally on .NET Rocks! Ron talks with Richard and Carl about architecture, C# 4.0, his podcasts, and more.

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David Hayden on the Unity Framework

David Hayden talks to Carl and Richard about the Microsoft Unity Framework

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Bill Wagner on Advanced C#

Carl and Richard talk to Bill Wagner about the more advanced features of C# 3.0 and how they can be used to do some amazing things.

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YSlow! Steve Souders finds Website Bottlenecks

Carl and Richard talk to Steven Souders, creator of YSlow, an analysis tool for finding website bottlenecks on the client side of the equation.

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Surface!

Carl and Richard talk to Robert Levy and Doug Kramer at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) in Los Angeles right after they unveiled the Microsoft Surface to the Microsoft developer community.

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Bob Martin (Uncle Bob) on Being a Professional!

Bob Martin talks about how to achieve Clean Code, which also happens to be the name of his famous book on software development.

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Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET for Silverlight!

Rocky is back to talk about his acclaimed CSLA.NET framework which was just released for Silverlight, allowing you to write CSLA clients in the browser... even running on a Mac!

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Interknowlogy Scratches the Surface!

Dan Hanan and Kevin Kennedy from Interknowlogy talk about their experiences working with WPF, Surface, and Silverlight. Interknowlogy is run by Tim Huckaby, a long-time guest and friend of .NET Rocks!

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Don Box and Doug Purdy on Oslo!

Richard and Carl talk with Don Box and Doug Purdy about Microsoft code-name Oslo, a nascent set of developer tools and technologies that promise to make development much easier than it is today.

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Rob Tiffany on Windows Mobile

Rob Tiffany stops by to talk about the lastest in Windows Mobile technology. Carl managed to squeeze a hint out of him about what's next for Windows Mobility.

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Jon Skeet on C# 3.0

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

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Catching up with Michele Leroux Bustamante

Michele Leroux Bustamante talks to Carl and Richard for the first time since she had her first kid! The topic is federated identity services.

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Frans Bouma on ORM!

Carl and Richard talk to Frans Bouma about his thoughts on the ORM revolution, his products, and the Entity Framework. Great stuff!

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Billy Hollis on WPF and Silverlight 2.0

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.

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Michael Isard on Dryad

Richard and Carl talk to Michael Isard about Dryad, a grid computing and clustering project from Microsoft.

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Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher on F#

Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward and Amanda Laucher about their work with F# and separate truth from fiction about functional languages.

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Catching up with Charles Petzold

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.

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Steve Teixeira on Parallelism

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.

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Glenn Block and Brian Noyes on Prism

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.

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Randell and Woodward on TFS 2008 and Beyond!

Brian Randell and Martin Woodward talk about Team Foundation Server 2008, and all the goodness within.

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Live from devLink 2008!

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).

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Thiago Silva on Reporting Services for SQL2008

Carl and Richard talk to Thiago Silva about the new features of Reporting Services for SQL Server 2008.

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Soma!

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.

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Dan Simmons and Stephen Forte on the EF Advisory Council

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.

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Steve Smith on the Transition to Entrepeneur

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.

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Udi Dahan Scales Web Applications!

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!

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Eric Swedin Looks Back in Time

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.

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Daniel Simmons on Entity Framework v1!

Dan Simmons is back this time to announce the release of the Entity Framework, and to answer some questions about it's architecture and use. Version 1 will ship around August 11th.

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Stacy Harris Does Home Automation!

Charles Stacy Harris talks about technologies used to automate his home using .NET interfaces. Geek out!

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Kate Gregory Develops in C++ for Vista!

Carl and Richard catch up with Kate Gregory to talk Vista, VB, C++, and her latest thoughts and experiences.

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Andrew Delin on SOX Compliance

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Delin about why developers should care about the Sarbanes Oxley Act and why a compliance plan is in your best interest.

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Dan and Kathleen on Kids and Computing

Dan Appleman and Kathleen Dollard have a lot to say about kids: computing, and programming. This is a great show for parents or anyone who works with kids.

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Scott Hunter on Microsoft Dynamic Data

Carl and Richard talk with Scott Hunter on Microsoft's Dynamic Data Runtime, which provides scaffolding and dynamic data services to developers.

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Scott Stanfield on Deep Zoom and PhotoSynth!

Scott Stanfield talks about Deep Zoom, PhotoSynth, his Mix keynote, and all the cool toys he gets to play with.

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John Lam Updates Us on IronRuby!

John Lam talks about his work with the DLR and Iron Ruby at Microsoft.

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John Lam Updates Us on IronRuby!

John Lam talks about his work with the DLR and Iron Ruby at Microsoft.

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Future of .NET Panel at DevTeach Toronto

Carl and Richard host a panel comprised of Oren Eine, Ted Neward, and Scott Belware at the DevTeach conference in Toronto. What started out as a discussion about the future turned into a discussion about Microsoft's development tools.

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Building Communities at Dallas TechFest

Carl and Richard talk with three community leaders in Dallas about building communities, and specifically how you can directly benefit from participating locally.

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Dmitri Ossipov on Enterprise Service Bus

Carl and Richard talk to Dmitri Ossipov from Microsoft about ESB architecture and specifically Biztalk.

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Jeffrey Richter on the Direction of Hardware

Carl and Richard welcome back Jeffrey Richter to the show. Jeff is a consultant for Microsoft with a unique perspective on the evolution of Windows and PC hardware.

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Dan Wahlin on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF

Dan Wahlin chats with Carl and Richard in front of a live audience at DevConnections in Orlando about his experiences with Silverlight 2.0 and WPF.

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64-Bit with Brian Peek

Carl and Richard talk with Brian Peek about the latest and greatest in 64-bit.

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Brad Abrams and Omar Khan Announce .NET 3.5 SP1 and VS2008 SP1

Brad Abrams and Omar Khan from Microsoft officially announce .NET 3.5 SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and detail all the new features and improvements!

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Phil Haack on Model View Controller

Phil Haack from Microsoft catches us up on his latest goings-on in The Collective, and talks about the ASP.NET MVC Framework.

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Mark Miller on the Science of Good UI

Good user interface design can be done by sticking to some good rules and avoiding common mistakes. You don't need to be a latte-sippin tattoo-wearin macbook-carrying designer to create user interfaces that work.

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Jim Webber on Guerilla SOA!

Carl and Richard talk SOA with Jim Webber, who has a lot to say on the subject.

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Marc Mercuri Unveils RoboChamps!

Marc Mercuri is back to announce a great new website and program for developers on Microsoft Robotics Studio, RoboChamps!

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Jonathan Zuck on the Politics of OOXML

Jonathan Zuck from ACT (Association for Competitive Technology) is back to talk about OOXML (Open Office XML), the EU vs. Microsoft, and other political issues that impact you as a software developer.

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Developing for Second Life

Carl and Richard talk to Chris Hart, Kyle G, and Zain Naboulsi about developing software for Second Life, and how the world of .NET intersects with the virtual world of SL.

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It's the ALT.NET Show!

Jeremy Miller and David Laribee discuss their work with ALT.NET, a "self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development."

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Ted Neward on the New Language Renaissance

Ted Neward is back to tell us his ideas around the recent downpour of language technology. He also answers a few questions left over from Carl's interview of his Java-developer brother, Jay Franklin, in show #326.

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Stephen Toub on Concurrency - Live in NYC!

Stephen Toub from Microsoft talks about new tools coming forth for dealing with concurrency and asynchronous programming. This was recorded live in front of an audience at the MS Financial Services Developer Conference in NYC last month.

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Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET 3.5

Rocky is back on .NET Rocks! to talk about the latest iteration of his CSLA.NET Application Framework, as well as to talk about some .NET technologies that are no longer as necessary as they once were.

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Kevin McNeish on DSLs and Software Factories

Carl and Richard talk to Kevin McNeish about Domain Specific Languages (DSL), Software Factories, and the like.

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Joel Semeniuk on the State of Team System

Joel Semeniuk stops by to talk about problem solving with Team System and Team Foundation Server, and to give us the skinny on the features of Team System 2008.

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Jon Goodyear on Instant Messaging APIs

Jonathan Goodyear tells us about his work with Instant Messaging protocols, and his soon to be released toolkit for .NET.

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Jay Franklin is a Java Programmer!

Brother Jay makes his debut on .NET Rocks! with stories of his experiences as a Java developer from the early days in VB class through MUMPS and landing finally in Java land. Also, be listening for a special musical performance at the end of the show.

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Barry Dorrans revisits Security with OpenID and Cardspace

Barry Dorrans has a good time with Carl and Richard talking about his history in the business and his passion for OpenID and Information Cards.

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Emre Kiciman on AjaxView

Carl and Richard talk to Emre Kiciman about AjaxView, a project from Microsoft Research to analyze the performance of web applications from the client side.

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Issam Elbaytam and Scott Wileke

Carl talks about Active Reports and other great new tools on the way from the boys at Datadynamics.

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Stephen Forte on Remote/Distributed Teams

Stephen Forte is back, this time talking about working with distributed teams. He shares his valuable experiences and insights.

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Catching up with Tim Huckaby

Tim is back to talk about things like Office development, the Microsoft/Yahoo story, and more.

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John Bristowe on Advancing Your Career

John Bristowe from Microsoft Canada talks about a new initiative from Microsoft to help .NET developers further their career.

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Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework

Julie Lerman calls in to tell us about her experiences with the Entity Framework.

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Catching up with Dr. Neil Roodyn

Carl and Richard talk to Dr. Neil about Mix, Live Services, WPF, Silverlight, Grava, and other cool technology he's been involved with.

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Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus

Carl and Richard talk with Christain Weyer about the features functionality of the new Microsoft Internet Service Bus.

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Scott Guthrie on Mix and Matthew Manela on the MSDN Code Gallery

Carl and Richard talk with Scott Guthrie about what to expect this year at Mix. Following that interview, the boys talk with Matthew Manela about the MSDN Code Gallery. Matthew also discusses his experiences starting at Microsoft as an intern and working his way up the food chain.

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Mark Pollack, Ted Neward, and Don Box on Java, .NET, and the future

Dare we say the future? This show was originally intended to be a discussion about Java and Spring.NET with Mark Pollack. Then Ted was invited, and he invited Don. The result is an almost two hour discussion of Java and .NET. This is definitely going to be a classic.

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Kate Gregory on C+++, VB.NET, and VSTO

Kate Gregory talks to Carl (in this retro interview-only show) about the new C++, why she prefers VB.NET over C#, Visual Studio Tools for Office, OOP, Sockets, and merry old England! This is the first of our attempt to make .NET Rocks! more geeky and less freaky! We hope you like it!

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Jay Roxe Rocks!

Microsoft Product Manager for Visual Basic.NET, Jay Roxe drops by to talk about his work on the .NET Framework including System.Object, System.String, and System.Text.StringBuilder. In the second half he talks about VB.NET 2005, about the decisions Microsoft made regarding features and ship dates, and about how he thinks VB.NET 2005 will go a long way toward making .NET accessible to the masses of business programmers worldwide.

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Juval L?wy on .NET 2.0

Juval L?wy joins Carl, Rory, and the gang this week for a romp through .NET 2.0 in all its glory. Juval talks about serialization now and in 2.0, the new System.Transaction namespace and how cool it really is, putting System.EnterpriseServices in perspective, some quick lip service to generics (although he discussed that in show #34), and a little criticism of the new Visual Studio 2005. Thom Robbins joins us in the second half to talk about his recent CodeCamp event, and the New England di ...

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The Whidbey Show

We try to have representatives from Microsoft on the show every once in a while to talk about what's happening in Redmond. This week we had four program managers for the Evangelism team: Scott Burmester, Steve Cellini, Carter Maslan, and Jeff Sandquist. The topic? Whidbey! We get a check up on the progress of the next version of .NET. We talked at length about the up-and-coming Visual Studio 2005 Team System, and the efforts to reach application developers who don't necessarily spend time i ...

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Chris Sells Checks In

.NET Rocks! regular guest (and guest host) Chris Sells joins Carl and the gang for a really fun discussion (after he comments on the mail and news) about Longhorn and WinFX, Longhorn features on XP, working on the MSDN Smart Client DevCenter, VS.NET 2005, learning about new technologies, learning by teaching, and Avalon. He answers some good technical questions from live listeners, and overall makes the two hours fly by. Of course you get the mail, news of the week, Weird Wide Webb, and Ask ...

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Fritz Onion on ASP.NET

Noted author and software engineer Fritz Onion is our guest this week on .NET Rocks! After lavishing praise on F.O. for what seemed an eternity, Carl and Rory get down to the HTTP Pipeline, the HTTPContext, User Controls, Web Controls, and what Fritz likes (and dislikes) about the current beta of ASP.NET 2.0. Among other accomplishments, Fritz is the author of the best-selling Essential ASP.NET published by Addison Wesley.

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Richard Hale Shaw Speaks!

Industry guru Richard Hale Shaw talks to the guys about what's on his mind. Namely, patterns, practices, anti-practices and anti-patterns, best practices, patterns in .NET, the future of C++ and managed code, VB6 as the ultimate anti-pattern, lack of OOP in ASP.NET 1.1, and looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0. We also listened to a bit of one of Richard's favorite tunes, What is Hip by Tower of Power. Mail, News, New music from Rory Blyth, Weird Wide Webb, and Richard the Toy Boy.

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Joe Stagner

Joe Stagner stopped by to talk about his recent experiences at BorCon, experiences with the Open Source community, Java, and Delphi. In the second half we talked about Rory joining the MSDN evangelism team, VB.NET 2005, the CLR 2.0, XP Service Pack 2 and website security. Joe did a session at TechEd 2004 called "How Hackers Hack" which was the number two highest-attended session! This was a great talk with a very talented developer turned evangelist who keeps it real every day. Also, Mail, ...

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Mark Miller on Tool Development

Mark Miller talks about his experiences developing for Delphi, developing the motion control system for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stage show, and his masterpiece, CodeRush. Mark is a big advocate of good design. He talks about plug-in architecture, another area of strong expertise, making the case for using plug-ins in everyday software. He also talks about Programmer Ergonomics- keeping fit in a sedentary job, his ideas about the future of software development interfaces, and other ...

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Dave Wecker

This weeks show is an interesting conversation with Dave Wecker, a brilliant (we think) architect in the Mobile Platforms Division who is constantly looking for the next thing in mobility, and how to make the mobile platforms better. The conversation spans from his experiences with speech recognition systems, the Tablet PC, microphone arrays, and neural networks to toys, home automation, books, and toys. Did we mention toys? Dave is a Toy Boy like us! It's people like Dave that make Micros ...

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Developing with Least Privilege - Don Kiely

Well-known author, developer, and speaker Don Kiely tells us why it's important to develop software (and do everything else on your PC) running as a non-admin. He offers some advice on what the pitfalls and challenges are as well as the benefits. It's a new world, and the days of running as administrator are over.

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Charles Petzold on Charles Petzold!

Charles Petzold talks with Carl and Rory about his books including Programming Windows; Code; and his .NET books, his love of computer and math history, his exploits with early electronic music, and tells some stories from the old days (at the prodding of old friend, Richard Hale Shaw, who was listening to the live stream at the time). This is a great discussion with a great man. Charles has a way of making complex concepts easy to understand.

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DotNetNuke! A conversation with Shaun Walker and Jim Duffy

DotNetNuke is a free ASP.NET based content management system with a huge installbase and support community. Shaun Walker is it's creator, and Jim Duffy is probably its biggest evangelist. This is a great laid-back show in which you'll learn all about DotNetNuke. By the end of the show you'll be rushing off to download it!

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Miguel de Icaza talks Mono!

Noted developer Miguel de Icaza talks about the Mono project. Ever wanted to run your .NET applications on Linux or a Mac, check out this show!

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Kimberly Tripp on SQL Server

Kimberly Tripp offers critical insights into SQL Server 2000 addressing Indexing, optimizing procedural code, the nightmare of row-based operations, and more. This show is 2.5 hours long!

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The CLR Today and Tomorrow with Jeff Richter

Jeff Richter talks about the 1.1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) and gives a sneak peak at what's coming in the Orcas CLR. Also, News of the week and Rory's Top 10 reasons why C# is better than VB.NET ;-)

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