Ted Neward and Bruce Tate talk about the relationship between Java and .NET, underscoring the issues with interop between the two platforms. Also discussed: cultural differences between the Java and .NET communities, the Pet Store Benchmark, the Jump Toolkit and J#, Naked Objects, unit testing, refactoring, the Standard Widget Toolkit, Mono, Rotor, Java on the client vs on the server, Swing, Sun vs Microsoft ideology, rabid zealotry in the Java community, languages vs platforms, open source, and...
Mar 01, 2004•1 hr 52 min
He's back and he's pissed! Not really, but we've always wanted to say that. Scott Hanselman talks with Carl and Rory about the following: * ASP.NET * Declarative Programming * "Word Documents have no teeth" * Client Side Validation * Code Generation - CodeSmith * Caching * Performance Counters in ASP.NET * Perf Testing * "A caste system for APIs" * other ideas: blogging trends, usenet, google, toolbars, future interfaces, * where he's speaking this quarter.... * DevDays * Whidbey Support this po...
Feb 23, 2004•2 hr
In this, the second installment in our ongoing ".NET Success Stories" series, Carl talks with Jesse Ezell and Chris Kinsman about projects they have developed and successfully deployed with Microsoft .NET languages, tools, and technologies.Chris talks about a huge project done for an insurance company that successfully uses ASP.NET and Windows Forms with autodeployment. As well, he talks about some applications he wrote for slot machine management at a casino.In the second half, Jesse Ezell disc...
Feb 16, 2004•1 hr 11 min
Chris Sells and Rory Blyth interview Carl about communications programming (serial, sockets, and MIDI), teaching, and the meaning of life. It's a fun and informative show, that you shouldn't miss. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Feb 09, 2004•1 hr 8 min
Hey, it's our first Live .NET Rocks! Show EVER! Oh yeah, we recorded a show live at the PDC, but we didn't broadcast it live! What's more, Carl's co-host is none-other than the infamous Rory Blyth This show is 2 hours long, and commenced Friday, January 30, 2004 at 12PM EST, 9AM PST. In the first hour, Bill Vaughn and Peter Blackburn talk about SQL Reporting Services, Microsoft's foray into the data reporting market. In the second hour, Carl and Rory welcome noted VB and PC guru Dan Appleman to ...
Jan 30, 2004•1 hr 58 min
In our first post-Mark show, Carl interviews developer and author Brian Noyes. Brian has focused his studies and development efforts on Smart Client development, and in this interview brings us from AutoDeployment of Windows Forms applications into ClickOnce, the next-generation deployment and update technology from Microsoft that will ship with the .NET Framework 2.0. We talk about the issues around AutoDeployment, and how Microsoft is addressing those issues with ClickOnce. Support this podcas...
Jan 26, 2004•1 hr 7 min
In this, Mark's last show, Carl and Mark welcome Rory Blyth, who writes a very popular blog at neopoleon.com. Rory's blog has become well known at Microsoft and in the .NET blogsphere in general.Rory talks about the .NET community and the Open Source Software (OSS) community, writing, blogging, driving to the PDC from Las Vegas, Longhorn, and lots of other great stuff. This one is not to be missed! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations...
Jan 19, 2004•1 hr 16 min
Carl and Mark have a chat with Sam Gentile (pronounced gen-TILL-ee) about sci-fi authors, COM Interop's problems, Extreme Programming, dual programming, unit testing, Sam's thoughts on the state of the .NET Framework, Groove, what's wrong with Com Interop, the cross-platform potential of the .NET Framework, the CLI, Rotor and Mono. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jan 12, 2004•1 hr 2 min
Carl and Mark have a chat with the one and only Don Box about SOAP, WSE, Longhorn, Indigo, COM, the PDC, Band on the Runtime, and the meaning of life. Don reveals a few gems about Indigo, and talks about the ways in which Indigo makes web services better. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jan 05, 2004•1 hr 12 min
Carl and Mark talk to Robert about the new Visual Studio Tools for Office, VBA, XML, Office and DataSets, Scripting, and using Word and Excel as the User Interface layer for your .NET framework applications. Robert also talks about some features of up-coming versions of these tools in the Whidbey timeframe. This is great stuff! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Dec 15, 2003•53 min
Carl talks with pat about Security, from the general concepts to the practical tips and in between. Pat draws on his millitary background to render a keen understanding of how to secure today's complex systems. You will pick up some great tips, and hopefully start thinking of security issues in your everyday development efforts after listening to this show. Pat Rocks! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations...
Nov 24, 2003•1 hr 12 min
A new episode Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Nov 10, 2003•29 min
Carl and Mark talk to Robert about Blogging, Longhorn, and the PDC. Lots of great stories, blogging for dummies, and a sneak peak at what happened at the PDC. They also talk about security, and Merrill Lynch's open letter to Sun, among other things. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Oct 27, 2003•1 hr 6 min
Carl and Mark chat with Scott about the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 (code-named Whidbey). Scott's keen understanding of the high and low-level features of Whidbey, Yukon, and IIS 6.0 really shine through in this interview where the topics include performance, caching and cache dependency, VS.NET tools, data access, using Yukon with ASP.NET 2.0, sharing session state, backward-compatibility, and code enhancements as well as a time-frame for when to expect alphas, betas, and the like. Support this...
Oct 06, 2003•1 hr 5 min
This week Carl and Mark throw down a few pints at the historic Dutch Tavern in downtown New London, CT and you're invited! Listen to stories from their recent week of teaching a VB.NET class to 27 people, challenging code puzzles, interesting characters, and of course, beer. This is a very relaxed show, but don't think you won't learn a thing or two. C'mon! Just have one more Black and Tan! Note: The show starts out a bit noisy, then gets better. There were some rowdy people in there when we fir...
Sep 22, 2003•55 min
This is a rare opportunity to have a conversation with people at Microsoft who are so closely tied to VB and VB.NET. They talked about new features in Whidbey, the next version of Visual Basic expected out in 2004 sometime, including some features that nobody knows about outside of the Alpha program! You'll have to listen to find out what they are! Carl and Mark talked about the things they like and have disliked about VB in the past, and how VB.NET has really brought the language to the forefro...
Sep 08, 2003•1 hr 13 min
Her area of expertise is (obviously) the ASP.NET DataGrid. She talks with Mark and Carl about various aspects of the DataGrid. She talks about common mistakes, common solutions, workarounds, what is it best suited for, what is it not suited well for, etc. Marcie also talks about Inheritance and web controls, managing viewstate, custom columns, blogging, and some of her favorite books on ASP.NET Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations...
Aug 25, 2003•1 hr 4 min
Mark and Carl talk with Brent about intellectual property, namely assembly and application obfuscation: techniques used, and the resultant binaries. They also talk about Remoting and get Brent's take on the value of Remoting. But the big gem in this show, we think, is Brent's 5-minute description of how Code Access Security works, which we immediately recognize as something very special. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations...
Aug 11, 2003•1 hr 2 min
This week, Carl and Mark talk to Juval Lowy about, among other things, the new version of C# (2.0). Of the new features, Juval's favorite is Generics. Generics allow you to define data structures without committing to actual data types. This results with significant performance boost, higher quality code and faster development, because you get to reuse data processing algorithms without duplicating type-specific code Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations...
Jul 21, 2003•58 min
This week Carl and Mark got to do a show they've been waiting for a long time to do. The conversation touches on the new application blocks (bluebricks - from the MS Patterns and Practices Group), string handling, using the BitConverter class for fast file i/o, serialization, XMLDataDocuments and XSLT, inheritance, instrumentation, the ASP.NET Cache object, and some great stories from the trenches, especially Mark's great training stories which always contain an array of shady characters and com...
Jul 14, 2003•53 min
Carl engaged Matthew in a lively discussion about his incredible website (.NET 24/7) which provides instant gratification for help on any of the classes in the .NET framework in the form of links to published articles, newsgroup discussions, and blog entries. Matthew is a big fan of weblogs, which he discusses in the interview. They also talked about the C# vs. VB.NET issue, and other issues associated with particular languages. As well, the conversation touched on the next versions of the frame...
Jul 07, 2003•1 hr 1 min
Tim talks about projects, demos, info-path, drinking water out of a vodka bottle, VS Tools for Office, Speaking at Tech-Ed, smart clients and all the stuff he learned working at Microsoft in Redmond. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jun 30, 2003•1 hr 8 min
The International .NET Association (INETA) provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoftr .NET user groups. INETA's mission is to offer assistance and resources to community groups that promote and educate their membership in Microsofts .NET technologies. INETA welcomes all facets of the .NET user community, from developers and architects to project managers and IT professionals. Members can be user groups or ...
Jun 23, 2003•1 hr 2 min
This show is a lively and candid conversation with three members of the Microsoft .NET Evangelism team. In this episode Mark takes a break to enjoy his sons last baseball game of the season. Carl talks to the team about what they do and how their efforts impact the quality of the framework and developer tools in general. Get a behind-the-scenes look at the daily operations of the .NET Evangelism team and how it operates. Other topics include companies that Microsoft has worked with as early adop...
Jun 16, 2003•1 hr 3 min
Chris talks with Carl and Mark about Longhorn, Working at Microsoft, his book with Don Box, his new Windows Forms book, dealing with Printer Margins, passing command-line arguments to auto-deployed applications, linking assemblies, the new Matrix movie, whats new in Ghengis, and answers the age old question "to GAC or not to GAC?" Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jun 09, 2003•1 hr
Carl and Mark talk to Jorge about how developers think, their approach to problem solving, how Microsoft makes development too easy sometimes, and about how developers think of their role in their companies. This is a fun interview. We even got to talk about music (Jorge is a bass player) and booze (of course!) in Peru Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jun 02, 2003•56 min
Carl caught up with Ingo at the New Orleans Hilton during DevConnections, a conference where they were both speaking. Carl and ingo talk all about .NET Remoting, and Ingo shares some critical insights that come from his experiences with Remoting. Ingo also talks about the new WSE (Web Service Extentions). Nicolas Landry stops by and talks about his experiences at DevConnections, Java compatibility with SOAP, SmartPhones, and other intersting tidbits. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.c...
May 19, 2003•51 min
Russ talks with us about the Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio.NET 2003 launch (recorded the same day), what's new in VS.NET 2003, upgrading, and what's new in the New England district Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
May 05, 2003•1 hr
He talks with us about the current blocks available, for ADO.NET and Exception Handling, and also gives us a sneak peek at the next bluebricks coming down the road, including a User Interface facade layer, an application updater (using the BITS Background Internet Transfer Service), and a Configuration Manager block for dealing with config files, including code for persisting connection strings. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations...
Apr 28, 2003•1 hr 21 min
Dino shares some valuable tips and insights into the innerworkings of ASP.NET security, IIS Impersonation, how VIEWSTATE is encoded, the serialization engine, how to store encrypted values in the registry, inline code vs. CodeBehind, and Italian Rock bands. We also learn that Dino has an extreme distaste for barbeque. Dino shares some topics of some of his best articles, including an ASP.NET control that generates a bar chart with pure html tables. He talks about one of the talks that he'll be d...
Apr 21, 2003•1 hr 10 min
