.NET Rocks!

Xamarin Update with Laurent Bugnion

17 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What's new with Xamarin? Carl and Richard talk to Laurent Bugnion, now a Microsoft Cloud Developer Advocate, about his latest experiences with the cro...

Practical Test Driven Development with John Callaway and Clayton Hunt

12 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Test Driven Development (TDD), good idea in theory, but in practice? Carl and Richard talk to John Callaway and Clayton Hunt about their success with ...

Desktop Deployment using Squirrel with Paul Betts

10 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you do desktop deployment? Carl and Richard talk to Paul Betts about the open source project called Squirrel, which is all about making desktop...

Productivity Tools in VS2017 with Kasey Uhlenhuth

05 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How productive are you with Visual Studio? Carl and Richard chat with Kasey Uhlenhuth about her work making Visual Studio even more productive for dev...

The Microsoft Business Application Platform with Vishwas Lele

03 Apr 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Programming for the Cloud! Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about the Microsoft Business Application Platform, which organizes the huge suite of ...

Falcon Heavy Geek Out

29 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Falcon Heavy flies! Now what? Time for a Geek Out! Richard talks to Carl about the amazing Falcon Heavy launch - what worked, what didn't and why did ...

Concurrency in .NET with Riccardo Terrell

27 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you do concurrency? Carl and Richard talk to Riccardo Terrell about his new book on concurrency in .NET. More than just ASync and AWait, there ...

The Ethics of Big Data with Cathy O'Neil

22 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Can Big Data actually hurt society? Carl and Richard talk to Cathy O'Neil about her book, Weapons of Math Destruction. Cathy has been deeply involved ...

Surviving Microservices with Michele Bustamante

20 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Michele is back and surviving microservices! Carl and Richard talk to Michele Bustamante about her work with microservices and the challenges that her...

Azure Success Stories with Christos Matskas

15 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you have success with Azure? Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft PFE Christos Matskas about some of the projects he's been involved in helping o...

The .NET Core 2 Road Map with Scott Hunter

13 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What is coming up for .NET Core? Carl and Richard talk to Scott Hunter, who leads all of .NET at Microsoft, about the road ahead for .NET Core. But fi...

Building Dashboards with Jessica White

08 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you know how your software is working? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Jessica White about her experience building dashboards ...

SharePoint Development in 2018 with Sahil Malik

06 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

SharePoint development continues to evolve in 2018! Carl and Richard talk to Sahil Malik about his view on the latest offerings around SharePoint. At ...

Voice Programming with Heather Downing

01 Mar 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to build an application where the UI is strictly voice? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard sat down with Heather Downing to ta...

The Docker Stack with Rob Richardson

27 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What goes into a Docker stack? Carl and Richard talk to Rob Richardson about how containers are evolving in the .NET world. Rob talks about how the Wi...

Teaching Software Development with Maria Naggaga

22 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Modern software development is complex, how do you teach it to beginners? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard sat down with Maria Naggaga to talk...

Talking C# with Bill Wagner and Jon Skeet

20 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

C# continues to evolve - there's more to learn! While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Jon Skeet and Bill Wagner about their on-going work o...

Security for Non-Profits with Cameron Birge and Tarek Dawoud

15 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you're a multi-national NGO or your local church group, every non-profit has cybersecurity issues! Carl and Richard talk to Cameron Birge and ...

Amazon Machine Learning with Kesha Williams

13 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How is machine learning different over in the land of Amazon? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talked to Kesha Williams about her work buildin...

Building Cloud Native Apps in Azure with Scott Guthrie

08 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to build a cloud-native application? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talked to Scott Guthrie about the latest features avai...

More on Blazor with Daniel Roth and Steve Sanderson

06 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What if you could program in C# in your browser? Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Roth and Steve Sanderson about the evolution of Blazor - Steve Sander...

Postgres and Curious Moon with Rob Conery

01 Feb 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How can space science help you learn Postgres? While at NDC London, Carl and Richard talk to Rob Conery about his latest book, A Curious Moon. Rob tal...

Identity Server Update with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Another year goes by, time for an identity update! While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Dom and Brock about the latest updates to Identity...

Programming for Girls with Jennifer Wadella

25 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get girls interested in programming and help them learn? While at NDC in London, Carl and Richard talk to Jennifer Wadella about her experi...

Flutter with Tim Sneath and Adam Barth

23 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Still exploring options for cross-platform mobile development? Carl and Richard talk to Tim Sneath and Adam Barth about Google's Flutter - using the D...

Storytelling with James Whittaker

18 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How can storytelling advance your career? Carl and Richard talk to James Whittaker, who recently published The Storytellers Spellbook, about the power...

OpenAPI.NET with Darrel Miller

16 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you make sure your APIs can interop across languages and other complexities? Carl and Richard talk to Darrel Miller about OpenAPI, the open sou...

Finding a Job in Software Development with Chuck Wood

11 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get a job in software development that you love? Carl and Richard talk to Chuck Max Wood about his experiences teaching people to get jobs ...

Building Progressive Web Apps with Chris Love

09 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are here, and Chris Love has some thoughts! Carl and Richard talk to Chris about his view on PWAs and their impact on buil...

Vision, AI and More with Tim Huckaby

04 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Artificial Intelligence has transformed vision technology! Carl and Richard talk to Tim Huckaby about his latest work with vision systems for retail, ...

ASP.NET in 2018 with Jeff Fritz

02 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

A new year, and new features for ASP.NET! Carl and Richard kick off the new year by talking to Jeff Fritz about his on-going work on ASP.NET - both th...

Laudato Si Challenge with Stephen Forte

28 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Last show of 2017, how about a story about changing the world? Carl and Richard talk to Stephen Forte about the Laudato Si Challenge, a startup accele...

Xamarin Development Gets Faster with James Montemagno

26 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Mobile development continues to evolve in the Xamarin world! Carl and Richard talk to James Montemagno about the latest features coming out of the Xam...

UX Design Rants with Billy Hollis

21 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Last show before Christmas - time for some rants! Carl and Richard talk to Billy Hollis about his frustrations around UX design. And Billy starts out ...

DotVVM 2.0 with Tomáš Herceg

19 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The new version of DotVMM is imminent! Carl and Richard talk to Tomáš Herceg about his on-going effort to build a great framework for creating web a...

Salesforce for .NET Developers with Jay Janarthanan

14 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Developing in Salesforce? What's that about? Carl and Richard talk to Jay Janarthanan about the kinds of software being built today against the Force ...

Implementing DevOps at Microsoft with Lori Lamkin

12 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What does it take to implement a DevOps practice at Microsoft? While at Connect in New York, Carl and Richard talked to Lori Lamkin about the efforts ...

Show 1500 - the History of .NET

07 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Show 1500! What better to celebrate another aught-aught milestone of .NET Rocks than a look back. Richard has been working on writing a book on the Hi...

Visual Studio Tools for AI with Seth Juarez and Paige Bailey

05 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for some AI tooling? While at Connect in New York, Carl and Richard sat down with Paige Bailey and Seth Juarez to talk about the newly announced...

Visual Studio Thoughts and Directions with Mitra Azizirad

30 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Where has Visual Studio come from and where is it going? While at Connect in New York, Carl and Richard sat down with Connect owner/organizer Mitra Az...

Artificial Intelligence and the Future with Joseph Sirosh

28 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Where is Artificial Intelligence going at Microsoft? While at Connect in New York, Carl and Richard talked to Joseph Sirosh about his work with AI thr...

Visual Studio Team Services and DevOps with Brian Harry

23 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Visual Studio Team Services continues to evolve! While at Connect in New York, Carl and Richard chatted with Brian Harry about the latest set of featu...

GitHub Beyond Your Browser with Phil Haack

21 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to use GitHub beyond your browser? Carl and Richard talk to Phil Haack about his latest work at GitHub, where they are focused on expanding the ...

Developer Tips and Design Patterns with Steve Smith

16 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

No anti-patterns this time - Steve is talking patterns! Carl and Richard chat with Steve Smith about various development patterns that can help you bu...

Docker Tools for .NET Core with Kendra Havens

14 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to experiment with containers? Carl and Richard talk to Kendra Havens about the on-going integration of container technology into Windows, Visua...

DevOps for Everyone with Donovan Brown and Damian Brady

09 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Can everyone benefit from DevOps practices? While at Ignite in Orlando, Carl and Richard sat down with Donovan Brown and Damian Brady to talk about th...

Building VSTS using VSTS with Dan Hellem and Rogan Ferguson

07 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How does Microsoft make Visual Studio Team Services? With Visual Studio Team Services! While at Ignite in Orlando, Carl and Richard sat down with Dan ...

SQL Server DevOps with Kevin Cunnane and Eric Kang

02 Nov 2017

Contributed by Lukas

DevOps with SQL Server? Yes! While at Ignite in Orlando, Carl and Richard sat down with Kevin Cunnane and Eric Kang to talk about the latest set of to...

AI for Developers with David Carmona

31 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What can developers do with artificial intelligence? While at Ignite in Orlando, Carl and Richard sat down with David Carmona to talk about the latest...

Building Web Apps using vue.js with Shawn Wildermuth

26 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ready for a different vue on web pages? Carl and Richard talk to Shawn Wildermuth about his experiences with vueJS. The conversation starts out with a...

Git Source Control for Everyone with Dmitry Lyalin and Ed Thomson

24 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Git for everyone! While at Ignite in Orlando, Carl and Richard talked to Ed Thomson and Dmitry Lyalin about the latest updates to Visual Studio Team S...

SpaceX BFR 2.0 Geek Out

19 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

In September 2017, Elon Musk walked out on stage at the International Astronautical Congress and updated everyone on SpaceX's latest plans. Time for a...

.NET Core, Standard and the Future with Scott Hunter

17 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

.NET Core 2 is shipped - what comes next? While at Ignite in Orlando, Carl and Richard chatted with Scott Hunter about life after shipping .NET Core 2...

Many Kinds of Messaging with Clemens Vasters

12 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There are so many messaging options in Azure, how do you choose? While at ProgNet in London, Carl and Richard sat down with Clemens Vasters to talk th...

AI Panel from DevIntersection Europe!

10 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What's up with Artificial Intelligence - and why should we care? While at DevIntersection in Stockholm, Carl and Richard hosted a panel discussion wit...

Open Source Development on the Microsoft Stack with Dylan Beattie

05 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Why should open source developers consider the Microsoft stack? While at ProgNet in London, Carl and Richard sat down with Dylan Beattie to talk about...

Entity Framework Core 2 with Julie Lerman

03 Oct 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Core 2 is out, and with it, Entity Framework Core 2! While at ProgNet in London, Carl and Richard chatted with Julie Lerman about the latest version o...

Social Presentations with Mark Rendle

28 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How would you make presentations better? While at ProgNet in London, Carl and Richard talked to Mark Rendle about his efforts to build a tool to make ...

.NET Diagnostics with Jon Skeet

26 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you diagnose problems in your applications? While at ProgNet in London, Carl and Richard sat down with Jon Skeet to talk through how he does di...

Azure Event Grid with Dan Rosanova

21 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Event-driven architecture in Azure! Carl and Richard talk to Dan Rosanova about Azure Event Grid, built to power event-driven and serverless apps in A...

Migrating to .NET Core 2 with Jeremy Likness

19 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

.NET Core 2 is out - are you ready to migrate? Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Likness about his experiences migrating his own projects over to Core 2...

Windows Template Studio with Clint Rutkas

14 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Struggling to get started with Universal Windows Platform applications? Carl and Richard talk to Clint Rutkas about the Windows Template Studio (WTS)....

New Razor Pages with Jess Chadwick

12 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

New to ASP.NET Core 2 is Razor Pages - how is it different from Razor? Carl and Richard talk to Jess Chadwick about how Razor Pages takes Razor to the...

Animations at Work with Rachel Nabors

07 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Do you have animation in your work? Carl and Richard chat with Rachel Nabors about her work putting animation into web applications. The conversation ...

F# for C# Developers with Scott Wlaschin

05 Sep 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to try on F#? While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard chatted with Scott Wlaschin about what C# developers need to know to get started with F#. Scot...

Empathy Mapping with Diane Zajac-Woodie

31 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get to know your customers? While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard talked to Diane Zajac-Woodie about empathy mapping, a process for trying to...

Going Serverless Panel at NDC Oslo

29 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Serverless is here - why would you do anything else? While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard hosted a panel of Rob Conery, Lynn Langit and Mathias Brandew...

Security in ASP.NET Core with Barry Dorrans

24 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How does security work in ASP.NET Core? Barry Dorrans knows, he's writing it! While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with Barry to talk about al...

Accessibility for UX with Elle Waters

22 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you make your applications accessible to everyone? Carl and Richard talk to Elle Waters about her working building applications for the visuall...

Event Tracing for Windows with Dina Goldshtein

17 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How can ETW help you? While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard talked to Dina Goldshtein about her work instrumenting applications. This leads to a conv...

The Azure Platform Landscape with Barry Luijbregts

15 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There's a lot of stuff in Azure - how to sort through it all? While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard talk to Barry Luijbregts about the huge array of ...

The Evolution of Serilog with Nicholas Blumhardt

10 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Is there more to logging? Yes! While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard talked to Nicholas Blumhardt about his long running logging project called Seril...

MSBuild with Daniel Plaisted

08 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

MS Build is cooler than you think! While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard sat down with Daniel Plaisted to talk about the latest version of MS Build. But...

Azure Cosmos DB with Josh Lane

03 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Are you ready to go into the cosmos? With apologies to the late Carl Sagan, let's talk about Cosmos DB! While at NDC in Oslo, Carl and Richard talked ...

.NET Summer Hackfest with Jon Galloway

01 Aug 2017

Contributed by Lukas

It's summer in the northern hemisphere, are you ready to get hacking? Carl and Richard chat with the new executive director of the .NET Foundation, Jo...

GraphQL with Steve Faulkner

27 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you make your APIs accessible to everyone? While at NDC is Oslo, Carl and Richard talk to Steven Faulkner about GraphQL, a Facebook open source...

ASP.NET Core 2.0 with Damian Edwards and David Fowler

25 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Core 2 is coming - are you ready? While at NDC Oslo, Carl and Richard talked to the amazing duo of Damian Edwards and David Fowler about the rapidly a...

TypeScript and Beyond with Anders Hejlsberg

20 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

The father of C# and TypeScript drops by for a visit! While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard talked to the one-and-only Anders Hejlsberg about hi...

Windows Containers with Steve Lasker

18 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How are containers coming along in the Windows world? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Lasker about his work making containers easy to use from within V...

The .NET Renaissance with Ian Cooper

13 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

After years of waning, .NET is on the rise - is it time for a renaissance? Ian Cooper says yes! The first of the NDC Oslo shows for 2017 starts out fo...

The Fluent Design System with James Clarke

11 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to get fluent? While at the Build conference in Seattle, Carl and Richard talked to James Clarke about the Fluent Design System. Fluent represen...

New .NET Standards with Mike Harsh and Joe Stegman

06 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What's up with .NET Standard and the new XAML Standard? While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard chatted with Mike Harsh and Joe Stegman about the ...

WebAssembly and Blazor with Steve Sanderson

04 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Is Silverlight back? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Sanderson about a demo he did at NDC Oslo that blew some minds. The demo involved using WebAssembl...

Project Rome with Vikas Bhatia and Shawn Henry

29 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We all have multiple devices, how do we make them all work together well? While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard sat down with Vikas Bhatia and S...

Ideas from Build with Holger Mueller

27 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

More analysis from Build - during Build! While at Build in Seattle, Carl and Richard talked to Holger Mueller about his impressions of the show, short...

Military Spaceplanes Geek Out

22 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What does the military want with a space plane? Time for a Geek Out! The conversation begins with that question - what space plane? Richard digs into ...

The Azure Mobile App with Jakub Jedryszek and Michael Flanakin

20 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Want to manage your Azure apps on your smartphone? Carl and Richard talk to Jakub Jedryszek and Michael Flanakin about their work building the Azure M...

New Great Design Science with Mark Miller

15 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Are you ready to take your UX design to the next level? Carl and Richard talk to Mark Miller about his latest research into the science of great desig...

Build Recap with Rocky Lhotka

13 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What happened at Build? Lots! Carl and Richard talk to Rocky Lhotka about his impressions around the various announcements at Build. The conversation ...

Azure Service Fabric and Microservices with James Sturtevant

08 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Azure Service Fabric is here - should your application take advantage of it? Carl and Richard talk to James Sturtevant about his experiences moving ap...

Building Cloud Redundancy with Vishwas Lele

06 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you get better uptime than the cloud? Two clouds! Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his experiences building ultra-reliable applicati...

Banish your Inner Critic with Denise Jacobs

01 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Banish Your Inner Critic! Carl and Richard talk to Denise Jacobs about her new book on creativity. And yes, we're all creative, we just have to get th...

Security Nightmares with Troy Hunt

30 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Troy is back, put on your tinfoil hat and get under the bed! Carl and Richard talk to Troy Hunt about the latest security exploits going around. Ranso...

Ditching the Hourly Crusade with Jonathan Stark

25 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Ready to get off the hourly treadmill? Carl and Richard talk to Jonathan Stark about ditching the hourly crusade. Jon talks about the fact that softwa...

Azure Functions with Yochay Kiriaty

23 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

What can Azure functions do for you? Carl and Richard talk to Yochay Kiriaty about his work creating Azure Functions as part of the App Service Platfo...

Hypersonic Vehicles Geek Out

18 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How fast can you go through the air? Time for a Geek Out! Richard chats with Carl about the challenges of flying in the hypersonic regime - above Mach...

Enterprise Angular and Azure with John Papa

16 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Is Angular ready for the enterprise? Carl and Richard talk to John Papa about the latest version of Angular and it's applicability in every day enterp...

Deploying Apps using Chef with Robb Schiefer

11 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How do you deploy software? Carl and Richard talk to Robb Schiefer about his experiences using Chef to do application deployment. Chef comes from the ...

Serverless Azure with Jeff Hollan

09 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Azure with no servers? Carl and Richard talk to Jeff Hollan about Azure's Serverless offerings. The idea is to stop worrying about virtual machines an...

The Evolution of Software Development Careers with Erik Dietrich

04 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

How are software careers changing? Carl and Richard talk to Erik Dietrich about his new book, Developer Hegemony. Erik digs into the struggles that ma...