.NET Rocks!
Episodes
Episode 2000!
30 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Recorded live at the Tavern Hall in Bellevue during the Party with Palermo for the MVP Summit, it's episode 2000! Carl and Richard take questions from...
How We Beat the Y2K Bug
23 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Y2K bug turned out to be a non-event on January 1, 2000. How did that happen? Carl and Richard bring together a number of stories from folks who w...
How AI Changes Development with Rob Conery
15 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How are LLMs changing software development? Carl and Richard talk to Rob Conery about his experiences as a consultant bringing the new AI tools and te...
Agentic RAG with Ed Charbeneau
08 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you make your agents more knowledgeable about your company data? Carl and Richard talk to Ed Charbeneau about Progress Agentic RAG-as-a-Service...
ASP.NET Core in 2026 with Daniel Roth
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
ASP.NET Core continues to evolve in 2026! Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Roth about all the goodness in the ASP.NET Core space, including MVC, Razor,...
Coding for Security with Chris Ayers
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What does secure coding look like today? Carl and Richard talk to Chris Ayers about the MITRE ATT&CK matrix, a comprehensive breakdown of the tact...
Building Software using Squad with Brady Gaster
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Let the squad help you build your application! Carl and Richard talk to Brady Gaster about Squad, a tool for creating an AI development team using Git...
Building Software using Squad with Brady Gaster
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Let the squad help you build your application! Carl and Richard talk to Brady Gaster about Squad, a tool for creating an AI development team using Git...
Avalonia 12 with Mike James & Matt Lacey
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Avalonia continues to evolve! Carl and Richard talk to Avalonia CEO Mike James & Matt Lacey about the latest version of Avalonia, the open source UI f...
Avalonia 12 with Mike James & Matt Lacey
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Avalonia continues to evolve! Carl and Richard talk to Avalonia CEO Mike James & Matt Lacey about the latest version of Avalonia, the open source ...
CLI First with Kathleen Dollard
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Your first app interface should be a CLI! Carl and Richard talk to Kathleen Dollard about her experiences creating the .NET CLI - and how CLIs are onl...
CLI First with Kathleen Dollard
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Your first app interface should be a CLI! Carl and Richard talk to Kathleen Dollard about her experiences creating the .NET CLI - and how CLIs are onl...
Leading Teams in the Time of AI with Andrew Murphy
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence is changing how software development happens - how is your team coping? Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Murphy about his work ...
Leading Teams in the Time of AI with Andrew Murphy
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial Intelligence is changing how software development happens - how is your team coping? Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Murphy about his work ...
Making Reliable Software in 2026 with Damien Brady
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's always been challenging to make reliable software - is AI making it worse or better? Carl and Richard talk to Damien Brady about his experiences ...
Making Reliable Software in 2026 with Damien Brady
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It's always been challenging to make reliable software - is AI making it worse or better? Carl and Richard talk to Damien Brady about his experiences ...
The Role of AI in Secure Software with Ben Dechrai
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How does Artificial Intelligence impact our approach to building secure software? Carl and Richard talk to Ben Dechrai about his experiences working w...
The Role of AI in Secure Software with Ben Dechrai
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How does Artificial Intelligence impact our approach to building secure software? Carl and Richard talk to Ben Dechrai about his experiences working w...
.NET Source Generators with Jason Bock
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why would you write code to generate code? Carl and Richard talk with Jason Bock about his experiences using modern .NET source generators to optimize...
.NET Source Generators with Jason Bock
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Why would you write code to generate code? Carl and Richard talk with Jason Bock about his experiences using modern .NET source generators to optimize...
Aspire in 2026 with Maddy Montaquila
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's coming for Aspire in 2026? Carl and Richard talk to Maddy Montaquila about her work as the product manager for Aspire, the tool that helps you ...
Aspire in 2026 with Maddy Montaquila
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's coming for Aspire in 2026? Carl and Richard talk to Maddy Montaquila about her work as the product manager for Aspire, the tool that helps you ...
MAUI in 2026 with Gerald Versluis
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's happening with MAUI today? Carl and Richard talk to Gerald Versluis about the latest version of MAUI - and what's coming next! Gerald talks abo...
MAUI in 2026 with Gerald Versluis
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's happening with MAUI today? Carl and Richard talk to Gerald Versluis about the latest version of MAUI - and what's coming next! Gerald talks abo...
App Distribution on Windows with Shmueli Englard
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you distribute Windows apps? Carl and Richard chat with Shmueli Englard about the power of distributing apps through the Microsoft Store. You p...
App Distribution on Windows with Shmueli Englard
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
How do you distribute Windows apps? Carl and Richard chat with Shmueli Englard about the power of distributing apps through the Microsoft Store. You p...
Uno and .NET 10 with Sam Basu and Jerome Laban
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's happening with Uno now that .NET 10 is released? Carl and Richard talk to Jérôme Laban and Sam Basu about the latest developments in Uno, inc...
Uno and .NET 10 with Sam Basu and Jerome Laban
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What's happening with Uno now that .NET 10 is released? Carl and Richard talk to Jérôme Laban and Sam Basu about the latest developments in Uno, inc...
Energy Geek Out 2025
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year - let's talk Energy! Richard chats with Carl about the state of energy generation in the world today - and things are progressing! Almo...
Energy Geek Out 2025
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year - let's talk Energy! Richard chats with Carl about the state of energy generation in the world today - and things are progressing! Almo...
Space Geek Out 2025
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Space Geek Out Time - 2025 Edition! Richard talks to Carl about the past year in space, starting with a reader comment about 3I/ATLAS, the interstella...
Space Geek Out 2025
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Space Geek Out Time - 2025 Edition! Richard talks to Carl about the past year in space, starting with a reader comment about 3I/ATLAS, the interstella...
The Role of AI in Software Development
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is AI going to change software development? Live from the Philly.NET user group, Carl and Richard have Jeff Fritz and Bill Wolff chat about how AI...
The Role of AI in Software Development
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is AI going to change software development? Live from the Philly.NET user group, Carl and Richard have Jeff Fritz and Bill Wolff chat about how AI...
Package Management in 2026 with Gary Ewan Park
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is package management changing? Carl and Richard talk with Gary Ewan Park about his view of the package management landscape in the Windows world....
Package Management in 2026 with Gary Ewan Park
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How is package management changing? Carl and Richard talk with Gary Ewan Park about his view of the package management landscape in the Windows world....
Building an AI App with Calum Simpson
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's it like building an AI-centric application? Carl and Richard talk to Calum Simpson of SSW about their product YakShaver. Calum talks about buil...
Building an AI App with Calum Simpson
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's it like building an AI-centric application? Carl and Richard talk to Calum Simpson of SSW about their product YakShaver. Calum talks about buil...
More Sustainable Software with Tom Kerkhove
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to make more environmentally sustainable software? Carl and Richard talk to Tom Herkhove about Microsoft's efforts to make carbon fo...
More Sustainable Software with Tom Kerkhove
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does it take to make more environmentally sustainable software? Carl and Richard talk to Tom Herkhove about Microsoft's efforts to make carbon fo...
The Role of LLMs in Visual Studio Productivity with Leslie Richardson
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are large language models going to change the way we use Visual Studio? Carl and Richard speak with Leslie Richardson about her work in Visual Stu...
The Role of LLMs in Visual Studio Productivity with Leslie Richardson
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are large language models going to change the way we use Visual Studio? Carl and Richard speak with Leslie Richardson about her work in Visual Stu...
Old Developers using New Tools with Brady Gaster
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are folks adapting to the new tools available for development today? Carl and Richard talk to Brady Gaster about his work on improving the tooling...
Old Developers using New Tools with Brady Gaster
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How are folks adapting to the new tools available for development today? Carl and Richard talk to Brady Gaster about his work on improving the tooling...
Cake.SDK with Mattias Karlsson
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to integrate build automation into your applications? Carl and Richard talk to Mattias Karlsson about the new Cake.SDK as an additional componen...
Cake.SDK with Mattias Karlsson
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to integrate build automation into your applications? Carl and Richard talk to Mattias Karlsson about the new Cake.SDK as an additional componen...
GitHub Spec Kit with Den Delimarsky
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you build quality software with LLMs? Carl and Richard talk to Den Delimarsky about the GitHub Spec Kit, which uses specifications to help LLMs...
GitHub Spec Kit with Den Delimarsky
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you build quality software with LLMs? Carl and Richard talk to Den Delimarsky about the GitHub Spec Kit, which uses specifications to help LLMs...
CSLA 9 with Rocky Lhotka
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next version of CSLA is out! Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his business objects framework that pre-dates .NET itself! Rocky discusse...
CSLA 9 with Rocky Lhotka
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The next version of CSLA is out! Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his business objects framework that pre-dates .NET itself! Rocky discusse...
Digging Deeper into .NET Aspire with Chris Klug
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aspire has been around for almost two years. How do you use it effectively? Carl and Richard talk to Chris Klug about his experience with .NET Aspire....
Digging Deeper into .NET Aspire with Chris Klug
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Aspire has been around for almost two years. How do you use it effectively? Carl and Richard talk to Chris Klug about his experience with .NET Aspire....
Valuable Testing with Egil Hansen
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You write tests - but are they valuable tests? Carl and Richard talk to Egil Hansen about his approach to creating tests for applications. Egil discus...
Valuable Testing with Egil Hansen
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You write tests - but are they valuable tests? Carl and Richard talk to Egil Hansen about his approach to creating tests for applications. Egil discus...
Local AI Models with Joe Finney
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI in the cloud dominates, but what can you run locally? Carl and Richard speak with Joe Finney about his work in setting up local machine learning mo...
Local AI Models with Joe Finney
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
AI in the cloud dominates, but what can you run locally? Carl and Richard speak with Joe Finney about his work in setting up local machine learning mo...
Visual Studio Code AI with James Montemagno
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has AI changed coding with Visual Studio Code? Carl and Richard talk to James Montemagno about his experiences using the various LLM models availa...
Visual Studio Code AI with James Montemagno
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has AI changed coding with Visual Studio Code? Carl and Richard talk to James Montemagno about his experiences using the various LLM models availa...
Razor Tooling in Visual Studio 2026 with David Wengier
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Razor Tooling is evolving! Carl and Richard talk to David Wengier about the changes coming for Razor Pages in the next version of Visual Studio. David...
Razor Tooling in Visual Studio 2026 with David Wengier
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Razor Tooling is evolving! Carl and Richard talk to David Wengier about the changes coming for Razor Pages in the next version of Visual Studio. David...
Visual Studio 2026 with Mads Kristensen
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for the next version of Visual Studio? Carl and Richard talk to Mads Kristensen about the long-awaited version of Visual Studio. Needless to say...
Visual Studio 2026 with Mads Kristensen
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for the next version of Visual Studio? Carl and Richard talk to Mads Kristensen about the long-awaited version of Visual Studio. Needless to say...
DevOps in 2025 with Michael Levan
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has DevOps changed in 2025? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Levan about his experiences helping teams automate their development workflows, and d...
DevOps in 2025 with Michael Levan
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has DevOps changed in 2025? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Levan about his experiences helping teams automate their development workflows, and d...
Design at GitHub with Diana Mounter
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did the design of GitHub evolve? Carl and Richard speak with Diana Mounter about her experiences at GitHub, including her role as head of design. ...
Design at GitHub with Diana Mounter
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How did the design of GitHub evolve? Carl and Richard speak with Diana Mounter about her experiences at GitHub, including her role as head of design. ...
C# 14 with Dustin Campbell
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's coming in C#14? Carl and Richard chat with Dustin Campbell about the next version of C#, discussing what it takes to continue advancing softwar...
C# 14 with Dustin Campbell
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's coming in C#14? Carl and Richard chat with Dustin Campbell about the next version of C#, discussing what it takes to continue advancing softwar...
Thirty Years of Application Security with Michael Howard
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has application security evolved over the decades? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Howard about his experiences working in security at Microsoft....
Thirty Years of Application Security with Michael Howard
13 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How has application security evolved over the decades? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Howard about his experiences working in security at Microsoft....
Improving Legacy Applications with Billy Hollis
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can you improve a legacy application? What's the right way to go about it? Carl and Richard talk with Billy Hollis about his work updating legacy appl...
Improving Legacy Applications with Billy Hollis
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can you improve a legacy application? What's the right way to go about it? Carl and Richard talk with Billy Hollis about his work updating legacy appl...
Event Sourcing with Hannes Lowette
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can event sourcing help your applications? Carl and Richard speak with Hannes Lowette about his work in helping developers utilize event sourcing ...
Event Sourcing with Hannes Lowette
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can event sourcing help your applications? Carl and Richard speak with Hannes Lowette about his work in helping developers utilize event sourcing ...
AI Concerns with Mark Seemann
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have AI concerns? So does Mark Seemann! Carl and Richard chat with Mark about his views on the impact that large language models are having on ...
AI Concerns with Mark Seemann
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you have AI concerns? So does Mark Seemann! Carl and Richard chat with Mark about his views on the impact that large language models are having on ...
Progressive Web Apps in 2025 with Lemon
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you build progressive web apps in 2025? Carl and Richard talk to Lemon about his experiences building all sorts of PWAs for customers and enter...
Progressive Web Apps in 2025 with Lemon
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you build progressive web apps in 2025? Carl and Richard talk to Lemon about his experiences building all sorts of PWAs for customers and enter...
A Better AI Development Assistant with Mark Miller
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can AI tech help you write better code? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller about the latest AI features coming in CodeRush. Mark talks about foc...
A Better AI Development Assistant with Mark Miller
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can AI tech help you write better code? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller about the latest AI features coming in CodeRush. Mark talks about foc...
Thinking Agentic AI with Seth Juarez
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready for a great explanation of Agentic AI? For the last show at Build, Carl and Richard sit down with Seth Juarez to dig into what agentic AI really...
The Imagine Cup Finalists from Build!
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's the Imagine Cup Finalists! While at Build, Carl and Richard sat down with Daniel Kim, Matt Steele, and Gheida Omar to talk about their projects i...
Frictionless Development with Nicole Forsgren
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you eliminate the friction of development? Carl and Richard talk to Nicole Forsgren about her upcoming book on eliminating the friction from so...
Changing Testing using Playwright MCP with Debbie O'Brien
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when AI comes to your web testing tool? While at Build, Carl and Richard talked to Debbie O'Brien about the latest features in Playwright...
Coding Agents with Scott Hunter
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How will coding agents change your code? While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Scott Hunter about the announcements around coding agents at th...
Serverless Elastic with Ken Exner
28 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What if you could use ElasticSearch serverless? While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Ken Exner about the new announcements around Elastic pro...
C# Networking with Chris Woodruff
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do you understand how networking works in C#? Carl and Richard chat with Chris Woody Woodruff about his new book on networking with C#. Chris runs dow...
Backend for Frontend Security Framework with Erwin van der Valk
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you secure browser-based frontends with ASP.NET Core backends? Carl and Richard discuss the Backend for Frontend (BFF) Security Framework with ...
Architecture vs Code with Steve Smith
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you balance architecture and code? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Smith about various architectural strategies and the swing back-and-forth aga...
The Open Source Maintenance Fee with Rob Mensching
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Open Source Maintainers are burning out or going commercial - how do we solve this? Carl and Richard chat with Rob Mensching about his work to create ...
AI for Government RFPs with Vishwas Lele
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can a large language model help your organization answer government RFPs? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his startup pWin, as in prop...
Audio-Video in .NET with Elias Puurunen
16 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can you integrate performant audio-video into your .NET application? Carl and Richard talk to Elias Puurunen about his work at Tractus Events, where h...
Agentic AI in .NET with Spencer Schneidenbach
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to build an agentic AI in .NET? Carl and Richard talk to Spencer Schneidenbach about his work using large language models to enhance customer in...
Measuring LLMs with Jodie Burchell
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How do you measure the quality of a large language model? Carl and Richard talk to Dr. Jodie Burchell about her work measuring large language models f...
Javascript Promises with Martine Dowden
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What are JavaScript promises, and why do you want to make them? Carl and Richard talk to Martine Dowden about all the various async options available ...
.NET Aspire 9.1 with Rob Richardson
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What's the latest with .NET Aspire? Carl and Richard talk to Rob Richardson about his experiences with .NET Aspire to help build great .NET cloud apps...
Automapper V14 with Jimmy Bogard
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Seventeen years of Automapper! Carl and Richard talk to Jimmy Bogard about his latest version of Automapper - and the challenge of maintaining a long-...
React in 2025 with Aurora Scharff
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
React version 19 has been released! Carl and Richard talk to Aurora Scharff about the long-awaited version of React that incorporates React Server Com...
Vertical Slice Architecture with Jeremy Miller
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How can vertical architecture help you? Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Miller about using vertical architecture to help build applications quickly an...
Uno Hot Design with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Ready to speed up your cross-platform development? Carl and Richard chat with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic about Uno Hot Design. First shown ...