.NET Rocks!

Chris Sells Unplugged!

19 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Out of Microsoft and off to Telerik, what will Chris Sells say? Chris starts out talking about his last year at Microsoft, working on Javascript in Wi...

Scott Willeke Does Reporting at DevConnections

17 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Part of a group of shows recorded at DevConnections in November 2011, Carl and Richard talk to Scott Willeke about reporting technologies. The convers...

Carl and Richard Geek Out About Electricity!

12 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

The first Geek Out show of the new year, Carl and Richard talk about electricity. Call it a primer for many geek out shows to come, the conversation s...

Scott Hanselman and the Web Stack of Love!

10 Jan 2012

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Scott Hanselman, it's the all radio voice show! Scott starts off the conversation explaining the recent move...

John Papa Looks at the Microsoft Client Landscape

05 Jan 2012

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Carl and Richard talk to John Papa about his views on the client development landscape. John has recently left Microsoft where he was a Silverlight an...

Jim Holmes Tests Everything

03 Jan 2012

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Carl and Richard start off 2012 remaking a show that was lost at DevConnections, talking to Jim Holmes about testing. After a quick detour to chat abo...

Corey Haines Code Retreats Globally

30 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Corey Haines about his global code retreat. But before the discussion starts on code retreats, Corey digs into his interest i...

Steve McConnell Studies Development Practices

27 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Steve McConnell about the evolution of software development practices. The conversation digs into where Micr...

Startups and Cyborg Anthropology at Oredev

22 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

The last of the vignette shows from Oredev, this one only has two parts, but they're oddly related. The first interview is with Aaron Parecki, who tal...

Kathy Malone is a Green Developer

20 Dec 2011

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Carl and Richard talk to Kathy Malone about green computing. Kathy, who has a day job as an environmental engineer, talks about different types of gre...

Communicating at Oredev

15 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Another of the vignette shows from Oredev, Carl and Richard explore topics of communication. Up first is Udi Dahan, discussing his approach to domain ...

Damian Edwards and David Fowler Persist Connections with SignalR

13 Dec 2011

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Carl and Richard talk to Damian Edwards and David Fowler about SignalR. SignalR is a library for providing persistant connections between a web server...

Development Practices at Oredev

08 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Another set of stories from Oredev, this time around development practices. The first interview is with Dan North, where he discusses how development ...

Kathleen Dollard and Son talk Algorithms

06 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live from the GrapeCity booth at DevConnections, Kathleen Dollard (and her son Ben) talk about his PhD work in algorithms, how they are being...

Cool Projects at Oredev

01 Dec 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Next up from Oredev - the cool projects! Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Tess Ferrandez from Microsoft. Tess has moved on from the mad debug...

Dr. Neil Roodyn on Vision-Based Systems

29 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded live from the GrapeCity booth at DevConnections in Las Vegas. Carl and Richard talk to Dr. Neil about his work with Kinect, Surface 2, tablet...

Cloud Panel Discussion at DevConnections

24 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevConnections, Carl and Richard were part of a panel discussion on the cloud entitled 'Are We There Yet?' with Brian Noyes, Michele Leroux B...

Data Visualization at Oredev

22 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

The next collection of tales from Oredev focuses on data visualization. The first conversation is with Alastair Allan, talking about his experiences i...

WinRT Panel Discussion at DevConnections

17 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Where is Windows 8 taking us? While at DevConnections, Carl and Richard participated in a panel discussion with Tim Huckaby, Billy Hollis, Dr. Neil Ro...

Web Development at Oredev

15 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

The first of the vignette shows from Oredev, this show focuses on web development. The first conversation is with Peter Moskovits, talking about using...

Dan Hanan and Danny Warren Mix Kinect and Metro

10 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Dan Hanan and Danny Warren about mixing Kinect together with WinRT. Back at the Build conference keynote a 'marketecture' dia...

Neil McIsaac Develops SharePoint in the Cloud

08 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Neil McIsaac about building SharePoint sites in the cloud. The conversation starts out talking about the state of SharePoint ...

Scott Allen Builds Web Pages With Modernizr

03 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Scott Allen about Modernizr, an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-pow...

Tomasz Janczuk Builds Web Apps with node.js

01 Nov 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Tomasz Janczuk about node.js. Node.js is all about building scalable network programs, typically using HTTP. Tomasz talks abo...

Building a Software Business at DevReach

27 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

A great discussion with three successful software entrepeneurs with stories and advice about venturing out on your own in the wild and potentially luc...

Alexander Groß Deals with Machine Specifications

25 Oct 2011

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Carl and Richard talk to Alexander Groß about Machine.Specification (MSpec). MSpec was initially developed by Aaron Jensen as a context/specification...

Juval Lowy is a Business Architect

20 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Juval Lowy about his latest thoughts on software development. As always, Juval has a controversial angle on things. After out...

Paul Lewis Sees 3D in HTML 5

18 Oct 2011

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Carl and Richard talk to Paul Lewis about doing 3D graphics in HTML 5. Paul has built a 3D engine in HTML 5 called A3. The conversation dives into the...

Carl and Richard Drive Electric Cars!

13 Oct 2011

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Carl and Richard talk about electric cars with a special guest - Bruce Meacham! Bruce talks about his experience converting and driving a BMW 325 to p...

Rocky and Billy Introduce WinRT!

11 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Introducing episode one of The Tablet Show, a new weekly .NET Rocks! spinoff primarily for .NET developers but focused on Tablet development (WinRT/Me...

Philip Laureano Programs In Nemerle

06 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Philip Laureano about Nemerle. Nemerle is a multi-paradigm programming language for .NET. Similar to C#, it goes beyond C# to...

Greg Philpott Develops in X++

04 Oct 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Greg Philpott about X++, the most popular language you've never heard of. X++ is the programming language for Microsoft Dynam...

Guy Smith-Ferrier Does Mind Control!

29 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Guy Smith-Ferrier about the Emotiv EPOC neuroheadset. No really! Mind control for .NET! Guy talks about how the headset is wi...

Jeremiah Peschka Stores Data in CorrugatedIron

27 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jeremiah Peschka about his project, CorrugatedIron, a .NET library that gives developers the ability to talk to Riak, Basho's...

Show 700 - What happened at BUILD did NOT stay at BUILD

22 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard took thier recording rig to Tim Huckaby's epic party the night before Steven Sinofsky's keynote at the Microsoft BUILD conference Sep...

Jay Schmelzer Builds Apps With LightSwitch

20 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jay Schmelzer about LightSwitch. Jay talks about the launch of LightSwitch back on July 26 2011, and the new set of extension...

Carl and Richard Return To Space!

15 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

You asked for it, you got it - another space show! This time around Carl and Richard talk about the latest news around commercial space, including new...

James Dawson and Grace Mollison Bridge the Gap Between Developers and Operations

13 Sep 2011

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Carl and Richard talk to James Dawson and Grace Mollison about the DevOps movement. DevOps is about developers and operations personnel working closel...

Billy Cravens Compares and Contrasts ColdFusion and ASP.NET

08 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

After Richard made some (somewhat) disparaging remarks about ColdFusion, Billy sent an email defending the platform. The outcome of that email discuss...

Kate Gregory on the History of C, C++ and C++0x.

06 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Kate Gregory about the history of C, culminating in the latest version, C++0x (aka C++ 11). Kate points out that C++ is more ...

Kerry Hammil Builds .NET Gadgets

01 Sep 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Kerry Hammil about .NET Gadgeteer. The .NET Gadgeteer project comes out of Microsoft Research and is advancing the .NET Micro...

Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza Start Xamarin

30 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza, the CEO and CTO (respectively) of Xamarin. Xamarin is the company that Nat and Miguel set u...

Emily Lewis Builds the Web One MicroFormat at a Time

25 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Emily Lewis about HTML5, CSS3, Microformats, and general web development topics. Emily calls herself a 'standardista' and dem...

Loren Goodman Programs By the Rules

23 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Loren Goodman from InRule Technologies about rule engines. Loren talks about how rule engines help applications organize rule...

JD Meier Gets Results the Agile Way

18 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to JD Meier from Microsoft about leading an agile life. JD talks about how he learned to be effective as a product manager at Mi...

Shaun Walker Talks A Little DNN 6

16 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Shaun Walker about DotNetNuke. Shaun talks about the release of DotNetNuke 6, offering some substantial changes to DNN, inclu...

Carl and Richard Space Out!

11 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

You asked for it - Carl and Richard geek out about space. With the space shuttle retiring, the boys debate the relative merits of the shuttle program ...

Tatham Oddie Makes HTML 5 and Silverlight Play Nice Together

09 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Tatham Oddie about building web applications using HTML 5 *and* Silverlight. Tatham talks about the idea that the two technol...

Cristian Libardo Builds a CMS

04 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Cristian Libardo about N2 CMS. N2 CMS is an open source CMS system designed to be very light weight and allow developers to w...

Julie Lerman Frames Our Entities

02 Aug 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Julie Lerman about Entity Framework. Julie talks about her Entity Framework books - one for EF1, the other for EF4. The conve...

Pete Brown Has Fun With Silverlight and More!

28 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Pete Brown from Microsoft about the cool things he's working on, including building a Commodore 64 emulator in Silverlight! P...

Mark Rendle Has Some Simple.Data

26 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Mark Rendle about Simple.Data. As Mark describes it, Simple.Data is not an ORM because there's no objects and no relational m...

Brad Abrams Builds Platforms for Google

21 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Brad Abrams late of Microsoft, now at Google. Recently moved to Palo Alto, Brad talks about Google+, Google's social networki...

Rey Bango is all about Javascript

19 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Rey Bango from Microsoft about his web development career. Rey has deep ties into the Javascript community and talks about ho...

Sebastien Lambla Builds OpenRasta

14 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Sebastien Lambla about OpenRasta and OpenWrap. OpenRasta is a framework for simplifying building resource-oriented web-based ...

Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen Architect S#arply

12 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Geoff Smith and Howard van Rooijen about S#arp architecture. S#arp architecture provides guidance on how to build ASP.NET MVC...

Uncle Bob Looks For Clojure at NDC

07 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

One more show from NDC - a silly one. Late in the conference, Carl and Richard talked to Uncle Bob Martin about professionalism, clean code and the Cl...

Mobile Development Panel Discussion from NDC!

05 Jul 2011

Contributed by Lukas

What, another mobile panel? Yes - a totally different one. This mobile panel discussion was recorded at the Norwegian Developer Conference. Lots of st...

Scott Guthrie at NDC!

30 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Fresh off his keynote at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Scott Guthrie dropped into the fishbowl to talk to Carl and Richard abou...

Ingo Rammer Builds Native HTML 5 Apps

28 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Norway, Carl and Richard talk to Ingo Rammer about building 'native' HTML 5 apps. Ingo talks abo...

Dominick Baier Walks Us Through Claims-Based Security!

23 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Norwegian Developers Conference in Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with Dominick Baier to talk about claims-based security. Dominick walk...

Stories from NDC!

21 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Norwegian Developer Conference, Carl and Richard collected a couple of stories from the speakers at the event. First up is Magnus Mårten...

Aspect Oriented Programming at NDC

16 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at the Norwegian Developers Conference, Carl and Richard moderated a panel discussion on Aspect Oriented Programming. The discussion ranges over...

Paul Bone Goes Parallel with Project Mercury

14 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Paul Bone about the Mercury Project. Mercury is a logic programming language designed to natually execute in parallel without...

Mobile Development Panel Discussion from DevTeach

09 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevTeach in Montreal, Carl and Richard sat down with a panel of mobile development experts to talk about where mobile development is at. The ...

David Neilsen Develops for the Cloud

07 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to David Neilsen about doing cloud development. David digs into the various flavors of cloud, defining the differences between P...

Stories from Tech Ed US!

02 Jun 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at Tech Ed US in Atlanta, Carl and Richard talked to a variety of folks about the work they're doing in .NET. First up was Geert van de Horrik, ...

Michele Leroux Bustamante Still Focused on Identity

31 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Michele Leroux Bustamante about identity. Michele starts the conversation with the state of the union on identity. She walks ...

Steve Smith Tells Performance Stories

26 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Ignoring the unusual show number, Steve Smith talks to Carl and Richard about his experiences tuning ASP.NET for better performance. Steve tells three...

Mark Arteaga Talks Windows Phone 7 and Mango

24 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Mark Arteaga about his experiences building Windows Phone 7 applications. The conversation starts with a run down of what's c...

Radio Astronomy on DotNetRocks - ICRAR and SKA

19 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to professors Andreas Wicenec and Kevin Vinsen of the ICRAR and SKA project. SKA is the Square Kilometer Array for radio astrono...

Brian Lagunas on the Extended WPF Toolkit

17 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Brian Lagunas about the Extended WPF Toolkit. The Extended WPF Toolkit goes beyond Microsoft's WPF Toolkit to add even more c...

Koen Zwikstra Spies on Silverlight

12 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Koen Zwikstra. Koen is the author of Silverlight Spy, a tool for inspecting the run time of a Silverlight application in brow...

Glenn Block Simplifies WCF with WebAPI

10 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Richard caught up with Glenn Block at Mix 2011 to find out what he's been working on since the MEF days. After a quick tour down memory lane about MEF...

Chatting with the Imagine Cup Winners!

05 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While Richard is climbing a mountain in Nepal, Carl talks to the US regional winners of Imagine Cup 2011.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle...

Billy Hollis is a XAML Developer

03 May 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at Mix 2011, Richard talked to Billy Hollis about XAML development. Billy talks about the balance between WPF and Silverlight work, how he choos...

Pat Hynds Plans for Disaster Recovery

28 Apr 2011

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After getting an email from Shaun van Halewyn in Christchurch, New Zealand, Carl and Richard talk to Pat Hynds about disaster recovery for developers....

Remi Caron Connects Applications using BizTalk and the Enterprise Service Bus Toolkit

26 Apr 2011

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Carl and Richard talk to Remi Caron about his project utilizing Enterprise Service Bus architecture to connect a huge number of applications together....

Richard Campbell Talks Tech Ed 101

21 Apr 2011

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Carl interviews Richard about Tech Ed US in Atlanta. Richard does the Tech Ed 101 sessions at the conference, in the interview he shares his secrets f...

Brian Noyes is looking through Prism 4

19 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Brian Noyes about Prism 4. Prism is a combination of guidance and tooling from the Patterns and Practices team at Microsoft t...

Dan Wahlin Digs Deep on Web Client Development

14 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

While at DevConnections, Carl and Richard talk to Dan Wahlin about the state of web client development. Dan talks about his experiences with Silverlig...

Luca Passani Builds Mobile Web Pages with WURFL

12 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Luca Passani about WURFL. WURFL stands for Wireless Universal Resource File. Originally, WURFL was an XML file containing the...

Brian Randell Does Virtual Testing Live at DevConnections!

07 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded in front of the DevConnection audience in Orlando, Carl and Richard talk to Brian Randell about virtualization. Brian also digs into Virtual ...

Cory Fowler Runs PHP on Azure

05 Apr 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Cory Fowler about running PHP on Azure. Cory digs into the challenges of getting PHP up and running in Azure, especially the ...

Ayende Does Transactions with RavenDB

31 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini, aka Ayende Rahein, about RavenDB. RavenDB is a NoSQL JSON document database. Oren explains how he came to the real...

Eric Lippert Talks About Project Roslyn

29 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded on PI day, Carl and Richard talk to the one-and-only Eric Lippert from the C# Compiler team. But we don't only talk about C#! The conversatio...

Jean Paoli is All About Web Interoperability

24 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jean Paoli, the General Manager of Interoperability Strategy at Microsoft. Jean Paoli was part of the team at the W3C that cr...

Adam Driscoll Does PowerShell with TFS

22 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Adam Driscoll of Quest Software. The conversation starts with a discussion around Adam's TFS plugin for Android. Then it move...

Jon Snook Takes CSS3 Seriously

17 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Snook about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Jon is a designer and developer, which makes him a rare creature indeed. H...

Scott Millett Gets Our Specs Sharp!

15 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Scott Millett about SpecFlow, a free tool to help you implement Behaviour Driven Design. SpecFlow lets you build plain text r...

Kent Alstad Makes Javascript Perform

10 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Kent Alstad about the state of Javascript today. Kent admits that he has fallen in love with Javascript of late, that the new...

Mark Miller and Seth Juarez Go Mad with Kinect!

08 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller and Seth Juarez about their crazy experiments with Kinect. The boys discuss how they are building an interface wi...

Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp on HTML 5

03 Mar 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Bruce Lawson and Remi Sharp about HTML 5. Bruce and Remy have been involved with HTML 5 from the early days, although more as...

Giorgio Sardo on the IE9 Release Candidate

28 Feb 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Giorgio Sardo about the IE9 Release Candidate. Giorgio talks about his experience with Imagine Cup a few years back before di...

Gael Fraiteur is Still PostSharp!

24 Feb 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Gael Fraiteur about the state of PostSharp and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP). Gael talks about the advantage of AOP, modi...

Udi Dahan Clarifies CQRS

22 Feb 2011

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Carl and Richard talk to Udi Dahan about Command-Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS). CQRS is an enterprise application pattern derived from the D...

Rob Eisenberg MVVMs Us with Caliburn.Micro!

17 Feb 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Rob Eisenberg about Caliburn.Micro, a MVVM framework available on Codeplex. Caliburn.Micro takes Convention-over-Configuratio...

Entering the WebMatrix!

15 Feb 2011

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Carl and Richard talk to Josh Holmes about Microsoft's Web Matrix! Josh keynoted the launch of WebMatrix at CodeMash in January 2011. Web Matrix bring...

Joe O'Brien Does Ruby on Windows

10 Feb 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Joe O'Brien about efforts to bring Ruby on Rails to the Windows platform. The conversation digs into current community effort...

Andrew Russell Develops XNA Games for XBox, iPhone and More!

08 Feb 2011

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Andrew Russell about converting applications from XNA to Silverlight, iPhone and even Android. Andrew is working on a project...