.NET Rocks!

Ted Neward on the New Language Renaissance

10 Apr 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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 inter...

Stephen Toub on Concurrency - Live in NYC!

08 Apr 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Toub from Microsoft talks about new tools coming forth for dealing with concurrency and asynchronous programming. This was recorded live in fr...

Rocky Lhotka on CSLA.NET 3.5

03 Apr 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Kevin McNeish on DSLs and Software Factories

01 Apr 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Kevin McNeish about Domain Specific Languages (DSL), Software Factories, and the like.Support this podcast at — https://red...

Joel Semeniuk on the State of Team System

27 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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 Sy...

Jon Goodyear on Instant Messaging APIs

25 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Jonathan Goodyear tells us about his work with Instant Messaging protocols, and his soon to be released toolkit for .NET.Support this podcast at — h...

Jay Franklin is a Java Programmer!

20 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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 landi...

Barry Dorrans revisits Security with OpenID and Cardspace

18 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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.Support...

Emre Kiciman on AjaxView

13 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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

Issam Elbaytam and Scott Wileke

11 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl talks about Active Reports and other great new tools on the way from the boys at Datadynamics.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/n...

Stephen Forte on Remote/Distributed Teams

06 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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

Catching up with Tim Huckaby

04 Mar 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Tim is back to talk about things like Office development, the Microsoft/Yahoo story, and more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-ro...

John Bristowe on Advancing Your Career

28 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

John Bristowe from Microsoft Canada talks about a new initiative from Microsoft to help .NET developers further their career.Support this podcast at —...

Julie Lerman on the Entity Framework

26 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Julie Lerman calls in to tell us about her experiences with the Entity Framework.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Catching up with Dr. Neil Roodyn

21 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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

Christian Weyer on the Internet Service Bus

19 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk with Christain Weyer about the features functionality of the new Microsoft Internet Service Bus.Support this podcast at — http...

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

14 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Brian Noyes: WPF Update

12 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Brian Noyes catches us up on the state of WPF, talking about the new Composite WPF project (codename Prism), followed by a discussion on the state of ...

Adam Nathan on Popfly and Silverlight

07 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Adam Nathan from Microsoft joins Carl and Richard to talk about his work on the CLR team, his numerous books, and his work on popfly.com, a popular ma...

Miguel de Icaza and Geoff Norton on Mono

05 Feb 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Miguel is back to talk Mono with Geoff Norton. Many things have changed since we last talked to Miguel about the Mono project, an open-source port of ...

Andy Leonard on Unit Testing your Database

31 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard chat with Andy Leonard about database testing.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Kirk Munro on Powershell and PowerGUI

29 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Kirk Munro stops by to talk about PowerGUI, a free tool from Quest Software for PowerShell, including a beautiful script editor!Support this podcast a...

Simon Peyton Jones on Haskell and Functional Programming

24 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard chat with Simon Peyton Jones about his work with Haskell and functional programming. Along the way you'll hear about his other projec...

Les Pinter Looks Back

22 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Meet the guy who sold Microsoft Word to Bill Gates! Stories abound in this lively conversation with Les Pinter.Support this podcast at — https://red...

Aaron Skonnard puts BizTalk and WCF Together

17 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Aaron Skonnard of Pluralsight about the WCF Adapter for Biztalk Server 2006 R2, among other related topics.Support this podca...

Sahil Malik Shares the Point

15 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Sahil Malik talks about the latest developments and challenges around Sharepoint 2007. Sahil always brings a fresh perspective to the table.Support th...

David Aiken on Bridging the Gap between Dev and IT

10 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk with David Aiken about how developers can work more productively with IT professionals.Support this podcast at — https://redci...

Steven Lees on FeedSync

08 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk feed synchronization with Steven Lees from Microsoft about FeedSync, a Windows Live Dev service for synchronizing RSS and Atom f...

Kathleen Dollard on the Evolution of Software Development

03 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Kathleen spends a little more than an hour talking with Richard and Carl about how software development has changed over the years, for better mostly....

Ken Levy on Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX)

01 Jan 2008

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk VSX with Ken Levy who these days is all about community and showing developers how to extend Visual Studio.Support this podcast ...

Jeff Prosise Goes Deep on Silverlight

27 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk Silverlight with Jeff Prosise.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Joe Duffy on the Task Parallel Library

25 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft's Joe Duffy about the Task Parallel Library, which promises to make multi-threaded programming easier for us all.Su...

Richard Campbell Tells All!

20 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

It's our 300th show! Can you believe it? Carl interviews Richard, who tells many stories of his experiences in electronics and computers. Don't miss t...

Jeff Palermo on ASP.NET MVC

19 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Jeff Palermo introduces the nascent ASP.NET Model View Controler Framework. He easily explains the benefits, pitfalls, and techniques you can use to i...

Gael Fraiteur on PostSharp

13 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard chat with Gael Fraiteur about PostSharp, an AOP framework and toolkit for .NET.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-...

Tomas Petricek on PHP in ASP.NET and Silverlight!

11 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Tomas Petricek about Phalanger, a managed code PHP language compiler, as well as his thoughts on F# Web Tools, a toolkit whic...

Open Source Panel Discussion at DevTeach, Vancouver

06 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard host a panel discussion on open source software at the DevTeach developer conference in Vancouver, BC. Panelists: Rod Paddock, Shaun ...

Naveen Yajaman on Visual Studio Tools for Applications

04 Dec 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Naveen YajamanSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Colin Miller and the .NET Micro Framework!

29 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Geek out with Carl, Richard, and Colin Miller about the .NET Micro Framework for embedded systems.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ne...

F# Moves Forward

27 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Don Syme, the inventor of F#, along with F# PM Luke Hoban and MS Researcher Ralf Herbrich about the future of the F# language...

Dot Net Nuke Discussion Panel

23 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard interview members of the Dot Net Nuke corporation and their partners in front of a live audience at the Connections conference in Las...

Kent Alstad at Dev Connections!

20 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk scalability with Kent Alstad live from Dev Connections in Las Vegas.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/...

Tim Sneath and Ian Ellison-Taylor on Windows Past, Present and Future

15 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Windows veterans Tim Sneath and Ian Ellison-Taylor about the olden days of Windows, how it has evolved, and how it may look i...

Pablo Castro on Astoria

13 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Pablo Castro from the SQL Server Product Group at Microsoft talks about his work with Astoria, an infrastructure for bringing web technologies and dat...

Mark Dunn at TechEd Asia

07 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

We sent Mark to sit down with and interview the minds behind TechEd Asia.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Sue Mosher On Outlook

06 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Sue Discusses her work in Outlook and Exchange issues as well as the coding of Outlook and the new features of Outlook 2007.Support this podcast at —...

Nikhil Kothari on Facebook.NET and Everything Else!

01 Nov 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Nikhil Kothari talks about his eperiences working at Microsoft on all things web, including ASP.NET controls and Facebook.NET. Just read his bio to se...

David Yack Talks Microsoft CRM!

30 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

David Yack introduces us to Microsoft CRM and related products, giving us the developer story.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-ro...

Catching up with Brad Abrams

25 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Brad Abrams about Silverlight +Next and WPF.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Alex Daley on Windows Live Labs

23 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Alex Daley about some of the projects he's working on at Windows Live Labs, a division of Microsoft Research that focuses on ...

Rocky Lhotka and Anthony Handley on WPF

18 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl meets up with Rocky Lhotka and his associate, Anthony Handley, at ReMix in Boston to discuss the work they have done separating the roles of desi...

Dino Esposito on AJAX Architecture

16 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard caught up with Dino Esposito at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria to talk about AJAX architecture.Support this podcast at — https://redci...

WPF Panel Discussion

11 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard host a panel discussion on Windows Presentation Foundation at DevReach in Sofia Bulgaria. Panelists: Tim Huckaby, Brian Noyes, and To...

Ken Getz on VSTO and Other Stuff (tm)

09 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Ken Getz checked in to talk about the latest in VSTO, and then the converstaion turned geeky.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-roc...

Eli Lopian Discusses TypeMock.NET

04 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Eli Lopian about how mocking the right way can produce isolation in your test environment, allowing for more effective unit t...

Venkat Subramanium on the Inevitibility of Dynamic Languages

02 Oct 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Venkat shares his passionate reasoning as to why dynamic languages (with good unit tests) are the way of the future.Support this podcast at — https:...

Mike Griffin on EntitySpaces

27 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Griffin, creator of MyGeneration and EntitySpaces, talks with Carl and Richard about EntitySpaces, a persistence layer and business object system...

Jack Herrington on Browser Coding

25 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Jack Herrington talks browser coding: everything from JavaScript to Flash to Silverlight, if it's done in the browser Jack does it. He brings his expe...

Charlie Calvert and Beth Massi on VB.NET, Orcas, and the FoxPro Knitting Guild

20 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Charlie Calvert and Beth Massi spend their 60 minutes of fame talking about what they love about Orcas, how VB.NET is cool again, and what on earth ar...

Mike Azocar and John Cook on Testing with Virtual Machines

18 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Azocar and John Cook talk to Carl and Richard about using Virtualization for software testing. Of particular interest is the new features of the ...

Scott Cate on the MVP Pattern

13 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Cate talks about using the Model View Presenter pattern in ASP.NET, as well as his latest software creations and ventures.Support this podcast a...

Don Demsak on LINQ to XML

11 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Don Demsak (DonXML) discusses LINQ to XML and the new XML language features in Visual Basic.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rock...

Erik Meijer on LINQ!!

06 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Erik Meijer (a.k.a. the Head in the Box) talks to Carl and Richard in detail about LINQ from soup to nuts. This is a very technical discussion, and no...

Larry O'Brien Talks Concurrency!

04 Sep 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Larry O'Brien talks with Richard and Carl about how up and coming CPU architecture is going to invalidate current methods of concurrency programming, ...

Vishwas Lele on MOSS as an Application Platform

30 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Vishwas Lele talks about thinking of Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server as an application platform for .NET development. With all of the power and fle...

Michael Dunn on Speech Server and OCS

28 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Dunn tells Carl and Richard about Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 which has incorporated Live Communication Server with Speech Server. ...

Jon Harrop Makes Us F#

23 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Jon Harrop introduces Carl and Richard to F#, a functional language that runs under the CLR. F# performs like C#, but being a functional language, has...

Remi Caron Develops with Off-the-Shelf Software

21 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Remi Caron, one of the organizers of the SDC conference in the Netherlands, tells Richard and Carl how using standard toolsets and software packages h...

Donald Farmer on Data Mining

16 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Farmer talks about data mining with SQL Server and related technologies, including a fascinating discussion about using algorithms for predicti...

Udi Dahan talks SOA Sense

14 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Udi Dahan calls in from Israel to talk common sense about SOA. His pragmatic approach to the topic is refreshing and timely.Support this podcast at —...

David Hayden on the Enterprise Library

09 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to David Hayden about the new features of the Microsoft Enterprise Library 3Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ne...

Phil Haack on Subtext and Open Source

07 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his work with Subtext (a derivative of the .Text blog software package) and his work on various open source ...

Sandcastle!

02 Aug 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk to Anand Raman and David Wright about Sandcastle, an internal tool for generating code documentation that is now available to th...

Dan Ciruli's Grid Computing Redux

31 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Dan Ciruli of Digipede Technologies is back to bring us up to date with Digipede Networks, a .NET toolset for enabling grid computing.Support this pod...

Shawn Wildermuth on Silverlight

26 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Shawn Wildermuth talks to Richard and Carl about Silverlight from the .NET developer's persepective.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/...

Xiine with Markus Egger

24 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard discuss with Marcus his new product Xiine, a next gen digital reading platform, DRM and the current state of publishing.Support this ...

Nick Landry on Robotics Studio

19 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Nick Landry from Infusion calls in to discuss his experiences with (and knowledge of) the somewhat new Microsoft Robotics Studio.Support this podcast ...

Catching up with Miguel de Icaza

17 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Miguel de Icaza is back to tell us what's new with the Mono project, an open source implementation of the .NET Framework based on FreeBSD with support...

John Lam on the DLR

12 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

John Lam talks to Carl and Richard about his trek from Canada to Redmond, and his work on dynamic languages, including Ruby CLR, and the Microsoft DLR...

CSLA with Rockford Lhotka

10 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Rocky talks about CSLA 3.0, the relationship with WPF and Silverlight, "paranoid" code, pblishing and his experience with ebooks.Support this podcast...

The Identity Panel at TechEd 2007

05 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

In the last of the content from TechEd 2007 Carl and Richard host a panel on Identity issues with Ani Babaian, Michele Leroux Bustamante, Scott Goligh...

Rogers Sessions Explains Enterprise Architectures!

03 Jul 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Roger Sessions talks to Carl and Richard about enterprise architecture, with a focus on dealing with software complexity.Support this podcast at — h...

Team System Panel from TechEd 2007

28 Jun 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Another great panel discussion from TechEd 2007! Carl and Richard talk to a panel of experts about various topics around VSTS and team development foc...

Box and Sells on the State of Publishing

25 Jun 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Don Box and Chris Sells talk to Carl and Richard about a myriad of things including the state of publishing, especially books.Support this podcast at ...

Introducing Acropolis

21 Jun 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk with members of the Microsoft Acropolis team at TechEd 2007. Acropolis is a software factory-ish toolset that allows business de...

Mark Pollack on Spring.NET

19 Jun 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Pollack is back to talk about the latest version of Spring.NET, a frawmeowrk for extending the capabilities of the .NET Framework modeled after t...

ASP.NET Scalability Panel

14 Jun 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded at the Virtual TechEd Stage, Carl and Richard welcome Stephen Forte, Kent Alstad, Rob Howard, and Steve Smith for a lively discussion around ...

Christophe Wille on SharpDevelop

12 Jun 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Christophe Wille talks about SharpDevelop, an open-source free alternative to Visual Studio.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rock...

Scott Stanfield on the Importance of Aesthetics

07 Jun 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Stanfield from Vertigo Software is back (see show #11) to talk about cultivating an aesthetic sense around software, media, and user experience....

Scripps Institute

04 Jun 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard interview Peter Kuhn from the Scripps Institute about an application he designed to allow cancer researchers to visualize molecules a...

Frans Bouma on LLBLGen

31 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk with Frans Bouma, author of LLBLGen, a very popular ORM modeling and code generation tool for .NETSupport this podcast at — ht...

Nick Benton and Claudio Russo are Polyphonic C#!

28 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Carl and Richard talk with Nick Benton and Claudio Russo from Microsoft Research UK about Polyphonic C# (now part of C-Omega) which adds asynchronous ...

The ORM Smackdown!

24 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Ted Neward and Oren Eini agreed to discuss Object Relational Mapping practices at DevTeach in Montreal, Quebec May 16, 2007. This is a slightly longer...

Rob McGovern on Virtual Earth

22 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Rob McGovern from Infusion talks about the extremely cool Virtual Earth SDK: business cases, features, and how-to.Support this podcast at — https://...

Eric Sink and Martin Woodward on CI and Source Control

17 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Sink is back, this time with Martin Woodward to chat about Source Control systems and Continuous Integration.Support this podcast at — https://...

Rustan Leino on Spec #

15 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Rustan Leino discusses with Carl and Richard the features and functionality of the Spec # programming language.Support this podcast at — https://red...

Eric Evans on Domain Driven Design

10 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Eric Evans offers his insights on good software development using Domain Driven Design techniques.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/ne...

Barkol, Gallo, and Vavilalla on ASP.NET AJAX

08 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

David Barkol, Alessandro Gallo, and Rama Krishna Vavilala talk about ASP.NET AJAX, and thier upcoming book ASP.NET AJAX in Action from Manning Publica...

Frank Savage on Programming the XBox 360

03 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Frank Savage from the XNA team discusses the coolness that is XNA Game Studio Express! He also waxes poetic about his days on the Strike Commander and...

Brad Abrams Announces Silverlight

01 May 2007

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Abrams from the .NET Framework team is here to announce Silverlight, painting a picture of the near future as a rich media web experience. Don't ...