.NET Rocks!

The Empowered Customer with Richard Reukema

13 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How do customers take control of their data from merchants? Carl and Richard chat with Richard Reukema about his book The Empowered Customer. Richard ...

AI Extensions for .NET with Steve Sanderson

06 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can tooling make implementing AI features in your applications easier? Steve Sanderson says yes! Carl and Richard talk to Steve about the Microsoft.Ex...

From Xamarin Forms to Blazor with Nathan Westfall

30 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for a migration story? Carl and Richard talk to Nathan Westfall about his experiences moving an application for school buses from Xamarin Forms ...

Microsoft Dev Box with Isaac Levin

23 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What's a Microsoft DevBox, and why do you want one? Carl and Richard talk to Isaac Levin about the power of DevBox to help you get up and running fast...

Viper.NET with Rob Conery

16 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A visit from one of Scott Guthrie's Ninja Army! Carl and Richard chat with Rob Conery about his latest work with Microsoft technologies, including a V...

Architectural Intelligence with Thomas Betts

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How is your architectural intelligence? Carl and Richard talk to Thomas Betts about his thoughts on implementing AI-related technologies into applicat...

Energy in 2024 Geek Out

02 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a new year and time for an Energy Geek Out! Richard catches up on all the developments in energy generation over the past year, including solar, ...

Space in 2024 Geek Out

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Space Geek Out for 2024! Richard talks to Carl about SpaceX breaking more records - the most flights in one year, including four test flights of S...

GitHub in 2025 with April Yoho

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's coming for GitHub? Carl and Richard talk to April Yoho about the recent announcements from GitHub Universe and how they will roll out in 2025. ...

Event Modeling with Adam Dymirtuk

12 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can event modeling help you build better applications? Carl and Richard talk to Adam Dymitruk about Event Sourcing and Event Modeling, including t...

Grasping Code Quality with Richard Gross

05 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you understand the quality of your code? Carl and Richard talk to Richard Gross about his open-source tool called CodeCharta. Richard talks abo...

Static Websites in 2025 with Stacy Cashmore

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How are Azure Static Websites evolving? Carl and Richard talk to Stacy Cashmore about her work with Azure Static Websites, including an update to her ...

Building .NET 9 with Glenn Condron

21 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's talk about .NET 9 with one of the platform's leaders! Carl and Richard talk to Glenn Condron about his experiences building .NET 9. Glenn talks ...

Rockstar 2 on .NET Rocks with Dylan Beattie

14 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for more Rockstar? Carl and Richard chat with Dylan Beattie about the programming language known as Rockstar. Dylan talks about a joke that got ...

Balancing Coupling in Software Design with Vlad Khononov

07 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you balance the coupling in your application? Carl and Richard talk to Vlad Khononov about his book on Balancing Coupling in Software Design. V...

Blazor in .NET 9 with Dan Roth

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's coming for Blazor in .NET 9? Carl and Richard talk to Dan Roth about the upcoming version of Blazor. Dan discusses excellent performance improv...

Building Cloud Native with Chris Klug

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to build cloud-native applications? Carl and Richard talk to Chris Klug about his experiences building applications designed to oper...

Mobile, Augmented Reality, and AI with Chris Sells

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What has Chris Sells been up to? Carl and Richard chat with Chris Sells, the guest on episode 10 back in 2002, about how his career continues to evolv...

Copilot Studio with Prashant Bhoyar

10 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you make your own copilot? Carl and Richard talk to Prashant Bhoyar about his work with Copilot Studio and Azure AI Studio. Prashant describes ...

Making Node and Deno with Ryan Dahl

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for a chat with the creator of Node? Carl and Richard talk to Ryan Dahl about his work creating NodeJS in 2009 and how he moved on after a few y...

Microsoft Playwright Testing with Debbie O'Brien

26 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's the latest with Playwright? Carl and Richard talk to Debbie O'Brien about her ongoing work with Playwright, Microsoft's open-source testing fra...

How Simple is as Simple as Possible with Mark Rendle

19 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How simple can you make software development? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Rendle about his focus on simplicity in building software - as simple as p...

Making Design Pay with Billy Hollis

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How does good design pay off in software? Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis about his work designing software, both from a user interaction perspe...

Remote Mob Programming with Ulrika Malmgren

05 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Can you do mob programming remotely? Carl and Richard talk to Ulrika Malmgren about mob, or team programming - where three to five developers work tog...

Machine Learning on Geospatial Data with Malte Loller-Anderson & Mathilde Ørstavik

29 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What can machine learning do for geospatial data? Carl and Richard talk to Malte Loller-Anderson and Mathilde Ørstavik about their work at Norkart, u...

Domain Driven Design and Event Sourcing with Anita Kvamme

22 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What do Domain-Driven Design and event sourcing have to do with each other? Everything! Carl and Richard chat with Anita Kvamme about her experiences ...

Low-Code Solutions for .NET Developers with Serge Sarafudinov

15 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can a low-code solution help you deliver a .NET app? Carl and Richard talk with Serge Sarafudinov about his Xomega project. Serge describes how Xo...

Azure API Management's GenAI Gateway with Andrei Kamenev

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage APIs to GenAI, and how can GenAI help with API management? Carl and Richard chat with Andrei Kamenev about the latest features comin...

Getting into Containers using Aspire with Jiachen Jiang

01 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How can .NET Aspire help you get into containers? Carl and Richard talk with Jiachen Jiang about her experiences working with .NET Aspire. Jiachen tal...

Building Domain-Specific Copilots with Vishwas Lele

25 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if you want to build your own copilot? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his new startup, which is focused on using Azure OpenAI tools ...

Basic UX for Developers with Hilary Stohs-Krause

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What are the basics of building a decent user interface on a web page? Carl and Richard talk to Hilary Stohs-Krause about her experience helping folks...

WPF Update with Joseph Finney

11 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's happening with WPF? Carl and Richard talk to Joseph Finney about the news from Build about WPF - it's back, baby! But did it ever go away? Joe ...

GPT-4o with Veronika Kolesnikova

04 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Multi-modal is here and ready to use! Carl and Richard talk to Veronika Kolesnikova about what she has seen in the latest OpenAI model. Multi-modal re...

CosmosDB and AI with Mark Brown

27 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

CosmosDB makes ChatGPT fast! While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard chatted with Mark Brown about CosmosDB's role in AI. Mark talks about how Cha...

MAUI and Blazor with Beth Massi

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's up with MAUI and Blazor? Carl and Richard chat with Beth Massi about the latest MAUI, including the new webview available on GitHub that lets y...

GitHub Evolving with Damian Brady

13 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

GitHub is about so much more than source control! While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Damian Brady about all the great things coming out of ...

Building C# with Mads Torgerson and Dustin Campbell

06 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Chatting with the leaders of C#! While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard sat down with Mads Torgersen and Dustin Campbell to discuss how C# contin...

Episode 1900 with Scott Hanselman!

30 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's episode 1900! While at Build, Carl and Richard recorded a milestone episode with Scott Hanselman. Scott talks about his goals in the later stages...

The Nomadic AI Developer with Aaron Erickson

23 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Nomadic Developer returns - and is working on AI technology! After fifteen years, Aaron Erickson returns to .NET Rocks to talk to Carl and Richard...

On Being a Senior Software Developer with Shawn Wildermuth

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What do you want the last chapter of your software development career to look like? Carl and Richard talk to Shawn Wildermuth about life as a 55-year-...

Building Cloud Native in Azure with Scott Hunter

09 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you build cloud-native applications in Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hunter about how Microsoft tooling is evolving to develop cloud-na...

Antifragility in Software with Barry O'Reilly

02 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Six years later, how has antifragility thinking changed? Carl and Richard talk to Barry O'Reilly about his ongoing work on building highly reliable so...

Visually Debugging EF Queries with Giorgi Dalakishvili

25 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you debug your EF queries? Carl and Richard talk to Giorgi Dalakishvili about his open-source Visual Studio extension, EFCore Visualizer. Giorg...

Programming with Speech and AI with Karl Geitz

18 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Can speech become part of your development workflow? Carl and Richard talk to Karl Geitz about his use of NaturallySpeaking to create software in Visu...

Domain Control Plane and Azure with Anthony Eden

11 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you manage your DNS? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony Eden of DNSimple about his latest product, the Domain Control Plane. Anthony talks about ...

GitHub Copilot Update with Michelle Duke

04 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

GitHub Copilot has been out for a few years now - how is it going? Carl and Richard talk to Michelle Duke about what's been happening with GitHub Copi...

API Observability with Anthony Alaribe

28 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Do you understand how your APIs are being used? Carl and Richard talk to Anthony Alaribe about his experiences dealing with poorly documented APIs tha...

Aspect-Oriented Programming in 2024 with Gael Fraiteur

21 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How has Aspect-Oriented Programming changed? Carl and Richard talk to Gael Fraiteur of PostSharp fame about his new tool, Metalama. Gael talks about b...

Azure in 2024 with Magnus Mårtensson

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It's 2024, how is Azure doing? Carl and Richard chatted with Magnus Mårtensson about his work with customers migrating and operating in Azure. Magnus...

Modular Monoliths in .NET with Steve Smith

07 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Modular Monoliths strike the middle ground between monoliths and microservices! Carl and Richard talk to Steve Smith about his work striking a balance...

The Observability Tipping Point with Steve Gordon and Martin Thwaites

29 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Has observability hit a tipping point? Carl and Richard chat with Steve Gordon and Martin Thwaites about the various products and technologies today t...

CSLA 8 with Rocky Lhotka

22 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Another version of CSLA? Yes! Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his work keeping CSLA up-to-date with the latest .NET features. And now, wit...

Improving Your CSS Game with Martine Dowden

15 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you improve your CSS skills? Carl and Richard talk to Martine Dowden about her new book, Tiny CSS Projects. The book is built around twelve pro...

gRPC Update with Irina Scurtu

08 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's the latest with gRPC? Carl and Richard chat with Irina Scurtu about her latest work with gRPC. Irina talks about the improved tooling with gRPC...

Hangfire with Sergey Odinokov

01 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you handle background tasks? Carl and Richard talk to Sergey Odinokov about Hangfire, his open source project for background job processing in ...

Uno Update with Nick Randolph

25 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What can Uno do for you? Carl and Richard talk to Nick Randolph about the latest from the Uno platform. Nick talks about how Uno has continued to evol...

.NET Aspire with David Fowler

18 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Coming out of .NET Conf, one of the big announcements was .NET Aspire. Carl and Richard talk to David Fowler about his work creating the tools to make...

.NET 8 Migration with Jimmy Bogard

11 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do you migrate to .NET 8? Carl and Richard talk to Jimmy Bogard about his experiences helping teams migrate from .NET Framework 4.8 to more modern...

Energy in 2023 Geek Out

04 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Let's start 2024 with a conversation about energy! Richard chats with Carl about ongoing developments in power generation around the world. Wind techn...

Space in 2023 Geek Out

28 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Time for the annual Space Geek Out! Richard summarizes many of the important space stories of the past year, including SpaceX's record number of Falco...

.NET Performance with Daniel Marbach

21 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you improve the performance of your .NET applications? Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Marbach about his work building high-performance .NET ap...

Agile Application Security with Laura Bell Main

14 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It's almost 2024, do we still need to talk about securing our apps? Carl and Richard talk to Laura Bell Main about her ongoing efforts to get everyone...

Polly V8 with Joel Hulen and Martin Costello

07 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A new version of Polly is out - and it's a special one! Carl and Richard talk to Joel Hulen and Martin Costello about the release of Polly V8. Joel te...

Applied Large Language Models with Vishwas Lele

30 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do we put large language models to work? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his work using LLMs with his customers. Vishwas talks about f...

Sustainable Development with Lea Mladineo

23 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do we make our software greener? While at NDC in Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Lea Mladineo about her work in sustainable development. Lea tal...

React Server Components with Aurora Walberg

16 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can React Server Components make your website better? While at NDC in Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Aurora Walberg about her work with RSC and...

Commercializing Open Source with Victoria Melnikova

09 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you commercialize open-source products? While at NDC Porto, Carl and Richard talked to Victoria Melnikova about her work with Evil Martians, he...

.NET Conf with Jeff Fritz

02 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Are you ready for .NET Conf? Carl and Richard talk to Jeff Fritz about the latest version of .NET coming out - and the online event that celebrates it...

Observability Engineering with Charity Majors

26 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is observability engineering, and why do you need some? While at NDC in Porto, Carl and Richard recorded a .NET Rocks Live with Charity Majors, o...

bUnit Update with Egil Hansen

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What's the latest with bUnit? Carl and Richard chat with Egil Hansen about his excellent testing library for Blazor. Egil digs into the ongoing improv...

Data Sharding with Oren Eini

12 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is data sharding, and why do you need it? Carl and Richard talk to Oren Eini about his latest work on RavenDB, including the new data sharding fe...

Kubernetes Tooling with Annie Talvasto

05 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you make Kubernetes easier to use? While at the Copenhagen Developers Festival, Carl and Richard talked to Annie Talvasto about her work with K...

Azure and GitHub with April Edwards

28 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Azure and GitHub - better together? While at the Copenhagen Developer Festival, Carl and Richard talked to April Edwards for a special .NET Rocks Live...

Data Science and UX with Grishma Jena

21 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Data Science and UX should be the best of friends! While at the Copenhagen Developer Festival, Carl and Richard talked to Grishma Jena about her work ...

IoT Development using Particle Photon with Colleen Lavin

14 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What can you do with a Particle Photon? While in an aluminum Airstream trailer in a thunderstorm at the Copenhagen Developers Festival, Carl and Richa...

Mediatr with Jimmy Bogard

07 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How about some in-process messaging with no dependencies? Carl and Richard chat with Jimmy Bogard about his work with MediatR, a simple mediator patte...

Applied Large Language Models with Brian MacKay

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can a large language model help your application? Carl and Richard talk to Brian MacKay about his work with large language models, including ChatG...

Minimal Architecture with Jeremy Miller

24 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How much architectural ceremony is enough? Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Miller about his minimal approach to architecture when building software, i...

Chocolatey in 2023 with Gary Ewan Park

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How is Chocolatey evolving? Carl and Richard talk to Gary Ewan Park about the latest with the open-source Windows package management solution. Gary di...

Leveling up your Architecture Game with Thomas Betts

10 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How's your architecture game? Carl and Richard talk to Thomas Betts about being a better architect. Thomas focuses on the key aspect - communication! ...

The Ethics of Large Language Models with Amber McKenzie

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Large Language Models like GPT-4 are all the rage - how do we use them well? Carl and Richard talk to Amber McKenzie about the challenges and concerns...

Modular Monoliths with Layla Porter

27 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Microservices or Monoliths? Carl and Richard talk to Layla Porter about choosing a middle ground between microservices and monoliths, with modular mon...

Multi-Model Data Stores with Ted Neward

20 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Databases continue to evolve! Carl and Richard talk to Ted Neward about multi-model data stores - which, these days, are most databases! Ted talks abo...

Fluent Assertions with Dennis Doomen

13 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What can we do to make testing easier? Carl and Richard talk to Dennis Doomen about Fluent Assertions, an open-source set of extension methods to help...

Scaling a Monolith with Derek Comartin

06 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you scale a monolith? Carl and Richard talk to Derek Comartin about his blog posts and YouTube series around scaling a monolith. Derek talks ab...

Going Full Time on Open Source with Shaun Walker

28 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Can you quit your job and work full-time on your open-source project? Carl and Richard talk to Shaun Walker about his recent move to focus on Oqtane, ...

Azure Developer CLI with Savannah Ostrowski

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get your app running in Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Savannah Ostrowski about Azure Developer CLI (azd), an open-source tool to help dev...

Building Apps using OpenAI with Mark Miller

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can OpenAI help you program faster? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller about his experiments with OpenAI and CodeRush. Mark talks about the powe...

OpenTelemetry with Laïla Bougriâ

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What can OpenTelemetry do for you? While at Techorama in Belgium, Carl and Richard talked to Laïla Bougriâ about her experiences with the open-sourc...

No Free Lunch in Machine Learning with Jodie Burchell

01 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When it comes to machine learning, there is no free lunch! While at Techorama in Antwerp, Carl and Richard talked to Dr. Jodie Burchell about her expe...

PHP and WebAssembly with Jakub Míšek

25 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The power of .NET means PHP can run in the browser efficiently! Carl and Richard talk to Jakub Míšek about PeachPie using WASM. Jakub talks about ho...

Immutable Architectures with Michael Perry

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What's an immutable architecture, and why do you want one? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Perry about his book The Art of Immutable Architecture and...

Entity Framework Tooling with Erik Ejlskov Jensen

11 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you do more with Entity Framework? Carl and Richard talk to Erik Ejlskov Jensen about his work contributing to Entity Framework and creating to...

Supporting Open Source with Joseph Finney

03 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do we support open-source projects? Carl and Richard talk to Joseph Finney about his ongoing efforts to build various projects in his spare time w...

Cypress 12 with Ely Lucas

27 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Web Testing Evolved! Carl and Richard talk to Ely Lucas about the latest version of the Cypress Testing Framework. Ely talks about three significant v...

Continuous Feedback with Roni Dover

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How do you know the code you write is being used in production? Carl and Richard talk to Roni Dover about his work with Digma to help bring code utili...

Making a Copilot with Phil Haack

13 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Microsoft is making several Copilot products - should you? Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about the latest version of ab.bot, his customer succes...

Understand Web Apps using Fiddler with Sam Basu and Rosen Vladimirov

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Do you know what your web app is up to? Carl and Richard talk to Sam Basu and Rosen Vladimirov about the latest versions of Fiddler. The original Fidd...

DoomSharp with Wesley Cabus and Nico Vermeir

30 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

An MAUI version of Doom? Carl and Richard talk to Wesley Cabus and Nico Vermeir about their efforts to port the venerable game Doom to C# and .NET 6 w...

Blazor United with Javier Nelson and Steve Sanderson

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What if you didn't have to choose between client-side and server-side Blazor? Carl and Richard talk to Javier Nelson and Steve Sanderson about Blazor ...