Industry guru Richard Hale Shaw talks to the guys about what's on his mind. Namely, patterns, practices, anti-practices and anti-patterns, best practices, patterns in .NET, the future of C++ and managed code, VB6 as the ultimate anti-pattern, lack of OOP in ASP.NET 1.1, and looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0. We also listened to a bit of one of Richard's favorite tunes, What is Hip by Tower of Power. Mail, News, New music from Rory Blyth, Weird Wide Webb, and Richard the Toy Boy. Support this podcas...
Sep 27, 2004•2 hr 11 min
Joe Stagner stopped by to talk about his recent experiences at BorCon, experiences with the Open Source community, Java, and Delphi. In the second half we talked about Rory joining the MSDN evangelism team, VB.NET 2005, the CLR 2.0, XP Service Pack 2 and website security. Joe did a session at TechEd 2004 called "How Hackers Hack" which was the number two highest-attended session! This was a great talk with a very talented developer turned evangelist who keeps it real every day. Also, Mail, News ...
Sep 20, 2004•2 hr 1 min
Mark Miller talks about his experiences developing for Delphi, developing the motion control system for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stage show, and his masterpiece, CodeRush. Mark is a big advocate of good design. He talks about plug-in architecture, another area of strong expertise, making the case for using plug-ins in everyday software. He also talks about Programmer Ergonomics- keeping fit in a sedentary job, his ideas about the future of software development interfaces, and other inter...
Sep 13, 2004•1 hr 47 min
This weeks show is an interesting conversation with Dave Wecker, a brilliant (we think) architect in the Mobile Platforms Division who is constantly looking for the next thing in mobility, and how to make the mobile platforms better. The conversation spans from his experiences with speech recognition systems, the Tablet PC, microphone arrays, and neural networks to toys, home automation, books, and toys. Did we mention toys? Dave is a Toy Boy like us! It's people like Dave that make Microsoft th...
Sep 06, 2004•1 hr 59 min
Well-known author, developer, and speaker Don Kiely tells us why it's important to develop software (and do everything else on your PC) running as a non-admin. He offers some advice on what the pitfalls and challenges are as well as the benefits. It's a new world, and the days of running as administrator are over. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Aug 30, 2004•1 hr 56 min
Charles Petzold talks with Carl and Rory about his books including Programming Windows; Code; and his .NET books, his love of computer and math history, his exploits with early electronic music, and tells some stories from the old days (at the prodding of old friend, Richard Hale Shaw, who was listening to the live stream at the time). This is a great discussion with a great man. Charles has a way of making complex concepts easy to understand. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-...
Aug 23, 2004•1 hr 57 min
DotNetNuke is a free ASP.NET based content management system with a huge installbase and support community. Shaun Walker is it's creator, and Jim Duffy is probably its biggest evangelist. This is a great laid-back show in which you'll learn all about DotNetNuke. By the end of the show you'll be rushing off to download it! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Aug 15, 2004•1 hr 48 min
Noted developer Miguel de Icaza talks about the Mono project. Ever wanted to run your .NET applications on Linux or a Mac, check out this show! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Aug 08, 2004•2 hr
Kimberly Tripp offers critical insights into SQL Server 2000 addressing Indexing, optimizing procedural code, the nightmare of row-based operations, and more. This show is 2.5 hours long! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Aug 01, 2004•2 hr 27 min
Jeff Richter talks about the 1.1 Common Language Runtime (CLR) and gives a sneak peak at what's coming in the Orcas CLR. Also, News of the week and Rory's Top 10 reasons why C# is better than VB.NET ;-) Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jul 26, 2004•1 hr 54 min
This week the one and only Clemens Vasters turns on the light about the future of distributed systems and SOA. If you didn't get it before now, you will after listening to this show. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jul 19, 2004•2 hr 2 min
Tim Huckaby stops by to talk about his mission of preaching the SmartClient gospel. Tim is always full of fun, great stories, and common sense. Nickolas Landry surprises us by calling in and heckling Tim. Rory does the Google Weirdos and News of the Week, Carl scraps the Linux Vulnerability of the week (it was time) and Richard Campbell (the Toy Boy) reviews the nVidia GeForce 6800 (as well as a not-so-cool toy) and Carl gives one away to a lucky listener! All in all this was a great show! Suppo...
Jul 12, 2004•1 hr 53 min
This week's show is a roundtable discussion with Mark Dunn, Dan Appleman, Bill Vaughn, Kathleen Dollard, Don Kiely, Pat Hynds, Julia Lerman, and Scott Hanselman. See what happens when you get a bunch of geeks on the phone and turn em loose! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jul 05, 2004•1 hr 47 min
Carl and Rory geek out with Richard Cambpell about everything but programming! Topics include water-cooled PCs, wireless gear, and flying cars. Yeah, it's not about .NET, but for crying out loud, live a little! Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jun 28, 2004•1 hr 51 min
This week we had a very informative discussion about messaging with Benjamin Mitchell and John Bristowe. Benjamin and John cut through the WS-AlphabetSoup set of specifications, avoid frequent references to SOA and cover what the benefits of web services are, why you might want to use WSE (security, policy, addressing and support for TCP), how to use web services in your applications today and where Microsoft is heading with web services and Indigo in future. Michele Leroux Bustamante joined us ...
Jun 21, 2004•1 hr 58 min
John and Barry talk with us about Test-Driven Development, Unit Testing, and other aspects of Extreme Programming that are being used today. We had given lip service to unit testing in past shows, but John and Barry were able to explain the benefits as well as the how-to of test-driven development Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jun 14, 2004•1 hr 40 min
Rocky Lhotka talks about his new book, the CSLA framework, and makes the case for business objects in this world of DataSets and XML. He also talked a bit about WhiteHorse, Microsoft's new designers for SOA and classes shipping in the Whidbey timeframe. This was a great show, and we're always glad to talk to Rocky about all things .NET. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Jun 07, 2004•1 hr 50 min
In this, our first show after a much-needed vacation, we take you to TechEd 2004 in San Diego. We walked around on the show floor and talked to some of our former and future guests about TechEd, what's new, and what they're interested in.We recorded most of this show on video, and as such will be airing ".NET Rocks! The Movie" as soon as we possibly can. Until then, enjoy some of the more interesting sonic tidbits of the film.In the first half we spoke to Tim Huckaby, Keith Nicholson, Billy Holl...
Jun 01, 2004•2 hr 7 min
What started out as a show about the DevConnections Developer Conference morphed into a round-table chat with Dan Appleman, Kathleen Dollard, Mark Dunn, Don Kiely, Robert Scoble, Chris Sells, and Bill Vaughn about developer conferences like DevConnections, writing books, speaking, and various other aspects of the industry. Of course, it was lots of fun too. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
May 17, 2004•1 hr 56 min
Carl and Rory chat with noted author, developer, and MVP Kathleen Dollard about Code Generation, or writing code that writes code. Don Kiely also shows up to talk about working with Kathleen on her book Code Generation in .NET. Carl and Rory also check in with Sunny Day to talk about the price of gasoline in Maine. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
May 10, 2004•1 hr 51 min
Rory somehow convinced DonXML to drive up to the .NET Rocks! Studios for our first Thursday-night live show.Don Demsak (a.k.a. DonXML) is all about XML and related technologies, and as such he told us Why XML? for the as-of-yet unbeliever. Other topics include what the community gets wrong with XML, what's wrong with typed datasets, Object Constraint Language (OCL), what's wrong with the XML DOM, declarative programming and XAML, and SVG. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks...
May 03, 2004•1 hr 59 min
In the first hour Vic Gundotra and Steve Cellini from Microsoft talk about Longhorn and Evangelism at Microsoft. Evangelists are concerned with getting technical information to the developer community. During the break, Rory interviews the MSDN Channel 9 team about Channel 9After the break, Lenn Pryor and some of the Channel 9 team join Carl and Rory for more talk about Longhorn and Microsoft's efforts to get technical information to developers everywhere. Support this podcast at — https://redci...
Apr 26, 2004•1 hr 51 min
This show is all about architecture from Why to How. Keith and Harry bring the developer's and architect's perspective to the discussion, respectively. The discussion starts with the importance of good design and architecture, to techniques, tools, standards, and the like. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Apr 19, 2004•1 hr 57 min
This week's guest is Bob Reselman , author of Coding Slave, a book that claims the software industry doesn't want you to read it. We'll be talking about software, outsourcing, technology, and of course - the book. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Apr 12, 2004•2 hr
Tony Bain talks with Rory and Chris Sells about the issues developers face when building SQL Server based applications. Topics include optimization strategies and tools, how DBAs can help, transaction and concurrency control, locking, isolation levels, good database design, and good strategies for accessing SQL from Visual Studio.NET Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Apr 05, 2004•1 hr 49 min
Markus Egger of CoDe Magazine and EPS Software fame joins Carl and Rory this week to talk about OOP, Windows Forms, Visual Inheritance, and Tablet PC development. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
Mar 29, 2004•2 hr 2 min
Jon Box and Dan Fox are on the show this week talking about smart devices, the Compact Framework, and their book, "Building Solutions with the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework" Even if you are not currently developing for smart devices, this show is worth the listen. Jon and Dan talk about smart device past, present, and future, and offer real insights into and development strategies for development with the .NET Compact Framework. Topics include pInvoke, memory usage, UI design, storage, local ...
Mar 22, 2004•1 hr 56 min
Chris Flores, Jay Roxe, and Brian Goldfarb from Microsoft tell developers what they can expect from DevDays, a one-day conference in your local area hosted by Microsoft and your local Regional Director. For about a hundred bucks you can get the PDC build of Whidbey and some incredible sample code that you can use right away to build and secure smart client and ASP.NET applications. 1 Hour Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations...
Mar 16, 2004•32 min
Carl and Rory talk with Kevin about ObjectSpaces (a new business object management tool coming in the Whidbey timeframe), UML, Object Role Modeling (ORM), Visio, and his Mere Mortals Framework, an application framework for .NET developers based on best practices and patterns. This is a good show for anyone interested in using patterns and practices, maximizing development time, and tools the help you design and build business objects. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/don...
Mar 15, 2004•1 hr 35 min
This week, Carl and Rory talk with noted ADO and ADO.NET guru Carl Prothman about ASP.NET, being an MVP, INETA, ADO.NET, ASP.NET Security and Visual Studio.NET. There were lots of callers during the show. This may be the best show we've ever done on ADO and ADO.NET issues. CP also talked about how to prevent the most common types of ASP.NET attacks. Regular segments: Fan mail, Google Weirdos, Linux Vulnerability of the week, and a lucky listener wins a copy of Windows Server 2003 Enterprise with...
Mar 08, 2004•1 hr 54 min
