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CodeCast Episode 112: Windows 8 Developer Roadmap with Mary Jo Foley

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 112: Windows 8 Developer Roadmap with Mary Jo Foley

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Mary Jo Foley discuss developer related news and details from the Microsoft Build Windows conference focusing on Windows 8. Topics include: Windows 8 Metro vs desktop apps, Windows 8 on ARM, Visual Studio 11 (2012), Expression Blend 5, HTML5/JavaScript/CSS, XAML, C#, VB, WinRT, WinJS, .NET 4.5, IE 10, Metro app async contracts, Silverlight, Windows 8 Server, Azure, Hyper-V, Windows Phone, Windows Live, Windows Store, and overall the roadmap for Windows platform development.

Length: 01:19:21

Mary Jo Foley - Blog: http://allaboutmicrosoft.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/MaryJoFoley

Ken Levy - http://twitter.com/KenLevy

Windows Developer Center – http://dev.windows.com

Build sessions online: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/Build2011

Twit.tv Windows Weekly – http://twit.tv/ww

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CodeCast Episode 111: Ruby on Rails with Claudio Lassala

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 6 Sep 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 111: Ruby on Rails with Claudio Lassala

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Claudio Lassala, a long time Microsoft MVP, member of the extended EPS Software team, and contributor to CODE magazine. Claudio discusses his new found passion for Ruby on Rails, how it compares to ASP.NET MVC, Ruby, and IronRuby. Various developer tools for Ruby on Rails is also discussed. Claudio will be the instructor for an in-person and online training class on Ruby on Rails for CODE Training on Nov 10^th.

Guest

· Blog: http://lassala.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Claudiolassala

Links

· http://rubyonrails.org

· http://codemag.com/training

Length: 50:34

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CodeCast Episode 110: Rackspace Hosted/Cloud Services with Rob Collazo

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 110: Rackspace Hosted/Cloud Services with Rob Collazo

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Rob Collazo of Rackspace. Rob is a systems engineer who also runs their social media team, and was one of the first sys admins hired at Rackspace working for co-founder Jonathan Bryce. Rob discusses a wide range of topics related to the various services offered by Rackspace including hosted services such as managed, cloud, hybrid, SaaS application, e-commerce, corporate website, and developer/test environments. For managed hosting, Rob outlines the differences between private clouds, managed co-location (colo), single server config, and cloud servers. Additional details covered include trends, benefits, pricing, support services, and development scenarios.

Guest

· Rob Collazo - Blog: http://www.collazo.ws, Twitter: http://twitter.com/rcollazo

Links

· http://rackspace.com

· Rackspace Cloud Hosting Demos

· CloudU (Cloud University and Training)

Length: 53:30

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CodeCast Episode 109: Launch of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with Beth Massi

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 109: Launch of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with Beth Massi

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy talks with Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion and manager for LightSwitch, Visual Studio based business applications, and Visual Basic developers. In this special episode, Beth discusses the official release of Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 with the latest news and resources including availability, pricing, optionally deploying to Azure, extensibility model, and the growing ecosystem with vendors plus the Visual Studio Gallery.

Guest

· Beth Massi - Blog: http://BethMassi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/BethMassi

Links

· LightSwitch Developer Center - http://msdn.com/lightswitch

· LightSwitch Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/lightswitch

· LightSwitch 2011 on Microsoft Store

Length: 32:56

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CodeCast Episode 108: Google+ and Social Media Trends

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 108: Google+ and Social Media Trends

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Ken Levy discuss news around Google+ and how it and other social media services relate to developer and work related communications.

Links

· http://plus.google.com

Length: 39:30

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CodeCast Episode 107: Cloud and/or Client Computing with Dr. Neil Roodyn

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 107: Cloud and/or Client Computing with Dr. Neil Roodyn

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn discussion the differences and scenarios around cloud and client computing. Topics includes applications running in the cloud, documents hosted in the cloud, and rich/smart clients that use the cloud as part of the solution, with more and more of a mixture of client and cloud within applications rather than one versus the other.

Guest

· Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil, nsquared - http://nsquared.com.au

Length: 33:36

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CodeCast Episode 106: C# and Delphi Community with Charlie Calvert

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 26 May 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 106: C# and Delphi Community with Charlie Calvert

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Charlie Calvert who discusses his past at Borland working on Delphi and at Microsoft working on C#. Topics include Charlie’s career history, communities, book authoring, and developer education. Charlie is currently a professor teaching C# at the Bellevue Community College in Washington, and has authored and co-authored many developer books over the past 15 years. Originally trained as an English major, Charlie worked as a journalist and college English teacher before turning to the world of computers.

Guest

· Charlie Calvert - http://elvenware.com/charlie

Length: 01:06:00

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CodeCast Episode 105: Technical Debt with Gary Short and Markus Egger

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 105: Technical Debt with Gary Short and Markus Egger

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Markus Egger discuss technical debt. Technical dept is like financial dept, but instead of borrowing money you're borrowing time. Taking a shortcut in an architectural or software decision to save time when at a future date you need to come back and fix or enhance that shortcut. The more shortcuts you take postponing required coding, the more technical dept you build up. The discussion includes the benefits, sacrifices, trade-offs, costs, and other issues around actions and decisions that revolve around technical dept.

Links

· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt

Length: 01:16:08

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CodeCast Episode 104: Visual Studio LightSwitch with Beth Massi

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 104: Visual Studio LightSwitch with Beth Massi

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. In this episode, Beth discusses the latest features and resources for the new version of Visual Studio Lightswitch, deployment scenarios, and a quick intro to the extensibility model.

Guest

· Beth Massi - Blog: http://BethMassi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/BethMassi

Links

· LightSwitch Developer Center - http://msdn.com/lightswitch

· LightSwitch Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/lightswitch

Length: 47:44

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CodeCast Episode 103: DevTeach with Jean-Rene Roy

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 103: DevTeach with Jean-Rene Roy

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jean-Rene Roy (aka JR), founder and organizer of the DevTeach conferences in Canada. JR goes into details on the history of DevTeach, the great topics and speakers, the networking and community benefits, satellite events before and after the conference (many are free like State of .NET by EPS Software / CODE Magazine), what to expect at the next DevTeach event in May 2011, and the roadmap for DevTeach events in the upcoming next few years.

Links

· http://devteach.com

· http://facebook.com/devteach

Length: 53:30

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CodeCast Episode 102: Surface 2.0 with Dr. Neil Roodyn

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 9 Feb 2011 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 102: Surface 2.0 with Dr. Neil Roodyn

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn on the news around the new Microsoft Surface 2.0 announced and shown at CES 2011. Topics include the new Surface 2.0 hardware, software, and scenarios the new version opens the door to, as well as possible use cases for integrating a Surface and a Kinect device.

Guest

· Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil, nsquared - http://nsquared.com.au

Links

· http://surface.com

· http://twitter.com/MSSurface

Length: 56:10

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CodeCast Episode 101: History of Microsoft with Stuart Johnston

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 1 Feb 2011 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 101: History of Microsoft with Stuart Johnston

In this special episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews long time professional journalist Stuart Johnston on the history of Microsoft, primarily from the start in 1975 to around 2005. Stuart J. Johnston is currently contributing editor for www.internetnews.com and has covered Microsoft as a reporter and columnist for 23 years. He has regularly appeared as the “Tech Expert” on ABC-TV’s Seattle station, as well as on the BBC and TechTV on cable. He has been a columnist for Information Week, PC World, and InfoWorld, as well as spending several years as the Seattle bureau chief for InfoWorld. His areas of coverage have ranged from Microsoft’s object technologies to tools, application development environments, messaging middleware and operating systems to Microsoft’s Biztalk XML Server and related technologies.

Guest

· Stuart Johnston: Twitter: @stuartj1000, and on LinkedIn

Links

· Microsoft 1975-1990

· Microsoft 1991-2005

· Channel 9: History of Microsoft

· Triumph of the Nerds

· Pirates of Silicon Valley

Length: 01:28:57

Twitter: @CodeCast

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CodeCast Episode 100: 2010 Year in Review

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 100: 2010 Year in Review

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss 2010 year in review including the following topics: Windows 7, Azure, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, Office 365, Lync, Async CTP, Bing, Windows Live Essentials 2011, IE 9, Silverlight, Kin, Windows Phone 7, Tablet/Slate PCs, Kinect, Surface, Microsoft executives/employee exodus, Microsoft retail stores. Near the end of the show, Ken and Markus review their 2010 predictions and goals, then make new ones for 2011.

Links

· Markus Egger: @MarkusEgger

· Ken Levy: @KenLevy

Length: 01:28:27

Twitter: @CodeCast

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CodeCast Episode 99: Workflow 4 and AppFabric with Maurice de Beijer

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 99: Workflow 4 and AppFabric with Maurice de Beijer

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Maurice de Beijer, a current Connected Systems MVP and former VB.NET MVP. Maurice discusses the following: Why should developers care about Workflow 4 (WF4) and when is it an appropriate solution. Long running distinct processes like sales order, hiring employees or vacation requests. Using workflows as a scripting language inside your applications. Using the AppFabric to host Workflow services. Windows Server AppFabric versus Windows Azure AppFabric. Future support in Azure AppFabric.

Guest

· Twitter: @MauriceDB

Links

· Workflow Dev Center: http://msdn.com/workflow

· AppFabric: http://msdn.com/appfabric

Length: 54:29

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CodeCast Episode 98: Technical Resources for .NET Developers

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 98: Technical Resources for .NET Developers

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss various technical resources for developers including Channel 9, social media/networking, RSS with Twitter, Twitter clients, Twitter search, Twitter apps, stackoverfow.com, online ebooks, safari books online, lynda.com, join.me, logmein.com, InstaPaper, and more. Some Twitter feeds mentioned: @MSFTNews, @Microsoft, @Ch9, @VisualStudio, @VSEditor, @MSDN, @OpenAtMicrosoft, @VSLightSwitch, @ScottGu, @ToddBishop, @MaryJoFoley, @CODEMagazine, @CodeCast

Length: 49:06

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CodeCast Episode 97: Microsoft Tag with Didier Caron

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 97: Microsoft Tag with Didier Caron

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Didier Caron of Sparked in the Netherlands. Didier goes through a detailed introduction of Microsoft Tag, various scenarios of how he has used Tag as a developer at Sparked and for the SDN.nl developer events, creating Tags, scenarios for a wide variety of use cases for Tag, and .NET developer APIs using the Microsoft Tag SDK.

Guest

· Didier Caron: @dgcaron, Blog: http://dgcaron.wordpress.com

Links

· Microsoft Tag: http://tag.microsoft.com

· Building Software using the Microsoft Tag API

· Example: Harnessing the power of IExtensibleDataObject

Length: 43:15

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CodeCast Episode 96: Cloud Computing with Remi Caron

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 96: Cloud Computing with Remi Caron

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Remi Caron of Sparked in the Netherlands, and is also president of SDN.nl. Remi discusses in-depth the cloud computing for .NET developers including hosting, application architecture, application hosting (Azure), databases in the cloud (SQL Azure), and the paradigm shift in the business model of the user side of cloud-based applications.

Guest

· Remi Caron: @The_Undutchable, Blog: http://remicaron.wordpress.com

Links

· http://microsoft.com/cloud

· http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing

· http://sdn.nl

Length: 55:04

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CodeCast Episode 95: LightSwitch Scenarios with Beth Massi

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Mon, 8 Nov 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 95: LightSwitch Scenarios with Beth Massi

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft on the BizApps team who build the Visual Studio tools for Azure, Office, SharePoint, and Visual Studio LightSwitch. Beth is also a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. In this episode, Beth discusses the overall architecture of LightSwitch, the various phases of developing a LightSwitch application, options for a variety of deployment methods, and a range of scenarios for .NET and non-professional developers for using LightSwitch.

Guest

· Beth Massi - Blog: http://BethMassi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/BethMassi

Links

· LightSwitch Developer Center – http://msdn.com/lightswitch

Length: 55:04

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CodeCast Episode 94: PDC 2010 Summary - Silverlight, Azure, Async for C#/VB

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 4 Nov 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 94: PDC 2010 Summary - Silverlight, Azure, Async for C#/VB

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Gary Short and Markus Egger discuss news and announcements from PDC 2010, including the changes in strategy for future versions of Silverlight, Azure, and the announcement of the new Async programming features coming in the next versions of the C# and VB languages.

Links

· Silverlight and PDC message from Microsoft

· http://player.microsoftpdc.com

· http://msdn.com/vstudio/async

Length: 55:23

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CodeCast Episode 93: Xamalot.com - Free XAML Resources for WPF and Silverlight

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 93: Xamalot.com - Free XAML Resources for WPF and Silverlight

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Markus Egger, Gary Short, and Ken Levy discuss the new Xamalot.com website created by Markus and EPS Software. Xamalot.com is a provider of free clipart and other XAML resources (and most art is also available in other formats, such as PNG or SVG). The first 15 minutes of this show includes news about Windows Phone 7 and pre-PDC event discussions.

Links

· http://xamalot.com

· http://twitter.com/xamalot

· http://facebook.com/xamalot

· Channel 9: TWC9 - ASP.NET Fix, Xamalot, MVC tools Embed PPT

· PDC videos: http://player.microsoftpdc.com

Length: 47:44

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CodeCast Episode 92: Windows Live Essentials 2011 with Kip Kniskern of LiveSide.net

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 9 Oct 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 92: Windows Live Essentials 2011 with Kip Kniskern of LiveSide.net

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kip Kniskern who is the Managing Editor of the LiveSide.net blog and website. Discussion on LiveSide.net, and in-depth on Windows Live Essentials 2011 which includes Messenger, Hotmail, Mail Desktop, Photo Gallery, FrameIt, Movie Maker, Calendar, Groups, Bing Bar, SkyDrive (including Office Web Apps), Mesh, Writer, Live ID, Family Safety, Outlook Connector Pack (includes Outlook Hotmail Connector and Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger), Gallery, dev.live.com, Windows Live on mobile, and Spaces moving to WordPress.com.

Links

· http://liveside.net

· http://twitter.com/LiveSide

· http://facebook.com/LiveSide

· http://twitter.com/KipKniskern

· Windows Live Essentials: http://download.live.com

· List of Windows Live products and services: http://feedback.live.com

Length: 01:06:30

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CodeCast Episode 91: Servoy Development Suite with Sean Devlin

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 91: Servoy Development Suite with Sean Devlin

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Sean Devlin, a Senior Technical Engineer at Servoy. Servoy is a cross-platform development and deployment platform - based on a powerful data-centric application server combined with a productive open source developer tool. Servoy applications can be deployed either on premise, hosted or in the Cloud, or as a service (SaaS). While Servoy is Java based, most programming is done via JavaScript with Java programming optional as needed or preferred. Servoy client forms and web forms run from the same UI/code base and all logic executes on the server. This discussion covers the architecture and product suite offered by Servoy to deploy solutions towards users either as a zero-deployment, native smart client, or a browser-based web client.

Links

· Servoy – http://servoy.com

· Servoy on Twitter – http://twitter.com/Servoy

· Servoy for VFP developers – http://servoy.com/foxpro

· ServoyForge – http://servoyforge.net

· Servoy tech forums – http://servoy.com/i

· ServoyWorld – http://servoy.com/servoyworld

Length: 46:28

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CodeCast Episode 90: Surface and Multi-Touch UI with Dr. Neil Roodyn

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 90: Surface and Multi-Touch UI with Dr. Neil Roodyn

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Dr. Neil Roodyn with an extended conversation on a variety of topics including the Microsoft Surface, multi-touch applications, Bing Translator, and the Messenger Connect SDK. This discussion is a follow-up from a related CodeCast show with Dr. Neil (#34, July 2009).

Guest

· Dr. Neil Roodyn - Blog: http://roodyn.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/DrNeil

Links

· nsquared - http://nsquared.com.au

· http://surface.com

· http://twitter.com/MSSurface

· Bing Translator - http://www.microsofttranslator.com/

· Messenger Connect – http://dev.live.com

Length: 01:13:54

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CodeCast Episode 89: Windows 7 Development with Ritscher and Wildermuth

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 89: Windows 7 Development with Ritscher and Wildermuth

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Walt Ritscher and Shawn Wildermuth on the topic of Windows Phone 7 development and marketplace. Discussion includes topics such as tools for creating apps for Windows Phone 7, XNA vs. Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 SDK and API details, the app marketplace, and various details on what to expect for the first version release.

Guests

· Walt Ritscher - Blog: http://blog.waltritscher.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/WaltRitscher

· Shawn Wildermuth - Blog: http://wildermuth.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/ShawnWildermuth

Links

· Windows Phone Developer Center - http://developer.windowsphone.com

Length: 56:48

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CodeCast Episode 88: LightSwitch for .NET Developers with Jay Schmelzer

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 88: LightSwitch for .NET Developers with Jay Schmelzer

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss Microsoft’s new Visual Studio LightSwitch product with the team’s group program manager Jay Schmelzer. Jay discusses in-depth technical details and insights into LightSwitch including scenarios of who it’s for, developer scenarios, data-driven and modeling architecture, extensibility, ecosystem, version 1 features, and how it fits into the Visual Studio product family.

Links

· Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch product page – http://microsoft.com/lightswitch

· LightSwitch Developer Center – http://msdn.com/lightswitch

· LightSwitch team blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/lightswitch

Length: 48:34

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CodeCast Episode 87: PostSharp for VS with Gael Fraiteur

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sun, 1 Aug 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 87: PostSharp for VS with Gael Fraiteur

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Gael Fraiteur, developer of PostSharp for Visual Studio. Gael discusses the benefits of AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) and how PostSharp for Visual Studio increases productivity of .NET development allowing developers to easily write and apply custom attributes that add new behaviors to code for scenarios including tracing, thread management, exception handling, data binding, and more.

Links

· PostSharp - http://www.sharpcrafters.com

· PostSharp Blog: http://www.sharpcrafters.com/blog

· PostSharp on Twitter: http://twitter.com/PostSharp

· PostSharp Support on Twitter: http://twitter.com/PostSharpHelp

Length: 41:14

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CodeCast Episode 86: News on Mobile Devices, WebMatrix and Razor

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 86: News on Mobile Devices, WebMatrix and Razor

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss various news and experiences with mobile device news such as the iPhone 4, iPad, and the upcoming Windows Phone 7. Also discussed, starting at minute marker 56:30, news and scenarios around Microsoft’s recent release of the WebMatrix and Razor web technologies.

Links

· Microsoft WebMatrix – http://microsoft.com/web/webmatrix and http://www.asp.net/webmatrix

· Microsoft sharpening Razor view engine for ASP.NET

· ASP.NET Web Pages with Razor Syntax

Length: 01:10:28

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CodeCast Episode 85: Cool Apps, Utilities, and Tips for Windows, Mac, and iOS

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 3 Jul 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 85: Cool Apps, Utilities, and Tips for Windows, Mac, and iOS

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss many useful cool apps, utilities, and tips for power users (developers and non-developers) for the Windows, Mac, and iOS platforms.

Topics include: ZoomIt, TweetDeck, Kindle apps, iPhone Disk / iPhone Explorer, Adapter, SharedView, UltraVNC, Remote Desktop, Virtual PC 2007, Zinio, AppDelete, Flash Video, Dash Monitors, iOS SDK emulator, ShowAnytime, VR+ Recorder, RedLaser, SmartScan, ShareIt, Air Sharing, iExplorer, My Secrets, News Fuse / Tech Fuse, lynda.com, Instapaper, Windows Live Messenger, Podcaster, Twittelator, Dragon Dictation, Bing app, Pastebot, iGo MyWay, Maplets, WiFoFoFum, iNet, iTeleport, Jaadu RDP, FTPOnTheGo, Whiteboard, My Movies, Deliveries, FlightTrack, iRail, Expedia, Point Inside, LED Football, Mikey mic for iPhone/iPod.

Length: 01:02:40

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CodeCast Episode 84: IronPython 2.6.1 for VS 2010 with Jimmy Schementi

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 84: IronPython 2.6.1 for VS 2010 with Jimmy Schementi

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jimmy Schementi who is a program manager on the VS languages team at Microsoft. Jimmy discusses what’s new in IronPython 2.6.1, released in sync with Visual Studio 2010. Included in the discussion is many scenarios of how IronPython can be used as a great additional .NET programming language used by C# and VB developers, using IronPython with Silverlight, and details in the roadmap for upcoming released of IronPython.

Guest

· Jimmy Schementi – Blog: http://blog.jimmy.schementi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/jschementi

Links

· http://ironpython.net

· http://ironpython.codeplex.com

· IronPython Interactive DLR Console in Silverlight - http://ironpython.net/browser/examples/dlrconsole

Length: 53:01

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CodeCast Episode 83: 10 Years of CODE Magazine with Markus Egger and Rod Paddock

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 83: 10 Years of CODE Magazine with Markus Egger and Rod Paddock

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger welcome special guest Rod Paddock, editor of CODE Magazine. The original idea of CODE Magazine, owned by EPS Software, was an idea conceived by Markus Egger and Rick Strahl during a trip to Europe in the late 1990s. This special anniversary includes discussions of the history of CODE magazine, behind-the-scenes of publication, artwork, editing, writing, and fun never before told CODE stories from the past decade.

Guest

· Rod Paddock - Blog: http://blog.dashpoint.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/RodPaddock

Links

· CODE Magazine – http://codemag.com

· @CODEmagazine on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CODEmagazine

· CODE Magazine on Facebook: http://facebook.com/CODEmagazine

· Writing for CODE Magazine – http://codemag.com/write

· CODE Training - http://codemag.com/training

· CodeCast - http://codemag.com/codecast

· 10 Years of CODE by Markus Egger

· EPS Software: http://eps-software.com

Length: 01:19:35

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CodeCast Episode 82: INETA.org with Mike Vincent

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 82: INETA.org with Mike Vincent

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Mike Vincent, vice president board member of INETA.org. INETA provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft .NET user groups. Mike discusses the goals of INETA, how INETA works with local users groups, how user groups can benefit from INETA, and details about the recently added regional speaker program.

Guest

· Mike Vincent - Blog: http://mvasoftware.com

Links

· http://ineta.org

· http://twitter.com/INETA

Length: 40:28

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CodeCast Episode 81: CodeRush for VS 2010 with Gary Short

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 81: CodeRush for VS 2010 with Gary Short

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy discusses with Gary Short what’s new in CodeRush for Visual Studio 2010. Gary goes into details about the highlights of how CodeRush has been enhanced in the latest version, how it leverages many of the cool new IDE and editor features in VS 2010, and the enhanced extensibility model based on DXCore framework by DevExpress. In the first part of this show, Ken and Gary discuss various industry news including the latest in the smartphone market, Facebook, and Microsoft shutting down all 2000 of its NNTP newsgroup support forums. The CodeRush part of this show starts at the 22m45s mark.

Links

· CodeRush – http://devexpress.com/coderush

· DXCore – http://devexpress.com/dxcore

· DXCore Plug-ins - http://code.google.com/p/dxcorecommunityplugins

Length: 54:31

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CodeCast Episode 80: VS 2010 and Office 2010 Development with Beth Massi

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 13 May 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 80: VS 2010 and Office 2010 Development with Beth Massi

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Beth Massi, a senior program manager at Microsoft. On the BizApps team in the Visual Studio group, Beth is a community champion for business applications and Visual Basic developers. Beth discusses building business productivity applications with Visual Studio 2010 and Office 2010. The Visual Studio and Office teams have made significant investments in improving the developer experience for building and deploying Office and SharePoint applications. Beth discuses various scenarios for creating business applications built on Office and SharePoint as well as integrating line-of-business data via OData services. Also discussed are powerful scenarios such as consuming these services to create powerful BI data analysis in Excel 2010 and extending Office client and server applications.

Guest

· Beth Massi - Blog: http://BethMassi.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/BethMassi

Links

· Office Developer Center – http://msdn.com/office

· Visual Studio Developer Center – http://msdn.com/vstudio

Length: 29:57

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CodeCast Episode 79: VS 2010 Shell Products with Nathan Halstead

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 1 May 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 79: VS 2010 Shell Products with Nathan Halstead

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Nathan Halstead of Microsoft, program manager on the Visual Studio Platform team responsible for the Visual Studio Shell (Isolated and Integrated) Shell products, as well as the Visual Studio SDK. Discussed in-depth is an overview of the isolated and integrated shells for both VS 2008 and the new VS 2010, scenarios for using one or both shell products, Microsoft partners and others using the free shell runtime. Nathan also covers what’s new in the VS SDK for developing for the VS 2010 Shell runtimes, and how the VS SDK is used to create VS packages, MEF components, and VSIX projects for use with the VS 2010 Shell products.

Links

· Visual Studio Shell, Integrated Mode and Isolated Mode

· Visual Studio developer center

· Visual Studio Team Blog

· Twitter: @VSEditor

Length: 46:39

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CodeCast Episode 78: iPad for Developers, iPhone OS 4, SDK section 3.3.2

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 78: iPad for Developers, iPhone OS 4, SDK section 3.3.2

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss the new Apple iPad and how it can be used as a useful to for developers, as in a complimentary device for software developers in general. Also discussed is what’s new in upcoming iPhone/iPad OS 4, and then a vibrant conversation with facts and analysis around the controversial section 3.3.2 in the iPhone SDK 4 license agreement defining how code as to be implemented a specific way, thus impacting Adobe, Novel’s MonoTouch, and more.

Links

· What’s New in iPhone OS 4

· iPhone OS 4.0 dev agreement blocks using Flash or Unity as IDEs?

· iPhone SDK 4 Beta License Agreement (PDF)

· MonoTouch and iPhone OS 4 Update

· Adobe throws in the towel on Flash for iPhone

· Steve Jobs slams Adobe Flash as unfit for iPhone

Length: 01:08:05

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CodeCast Episode 77: State of .NET - Spring 2010

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 77: State of .NET - Spring 2010

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss the State of .NET, Spring 2010 edition. Main topics include Visual Studio 2010, Expression Studio 4, Silverlight 4, Multi-Touch and NUI with Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Azure. Much of the details discussed are based on the popular event series State of .NET tour presented by Markus Egger of EPS/CODE in cooperation with Microsoft.

Links

· Markus Egger’s Blog - State of .NET – Spring 2010 (with links to videos and PowerPoint slides)

· Facebook.com/StateOfDotNet

· EPS Events

· CODE Training

Length: 01:12:07

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CodeCast Episode 76: PowerShell for Developers with Ed Wilson

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 7 Apr 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 76: PowerShell for Developers with Ed Wilson

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Ed Wilson (aka “The Scripting Guy” at Microsoft). Ed creates cool and useful scripts, cmdlets, and samples for PowerShell (now included in Windows). Ed is very active in the PowerShell community, and blogs participates in the Scripting Guys blog which posts daily 365 days a year. Ed discusses the power and useful scenarios of PowerShell for .NET developers, and how every Windows developers should learn to use it.

Guest

· Ed Wilson – Blog: Scripting Guy:, Twitter: @ScriptingGuys, Email: scripter@microsoft.com

Links

· TechNet Script Center

· Script Center Gallery

· PowerShellCommunity.org

· iPowerShell app

· 2010 Scripting Games

· Windows PowerShell 2.0 Best Practices by Ed Wilson

Length: 47:39

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CodeCast Episode 75: Visual Studio Tips with Zain Naboulsi

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 75: Visual Studio Tips with Zain Naboulsi

CodeCast #75: Ken Levy interviews Zain Naboulsi, developer evangelist (DE) for Microsoft based in Houston. Zain discusses his background before joining Microsoft, his various responsibilities as a DE for his part of Texas and Louisiana, and his various online activities including taking over Sara Ford’s VS Tip of the Day blog posting. Also discussed is the exciting news of Zain and Sara Ford collaborating on an upcoming new sequel to Sara’s Visual Studio Tips book. Some useful tips on the Visual Studio IDE and cool new features in the VS 2010 IDE, extension manager, and VS Gallery are also included in this fun and educating episode.

Guest

· Zain Naboulsi on Twitter: http://twitter.com/zainnab

· Zain Naboulsi’s Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab (VS Tip of the Day series)

Links

· Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)

· Sara Ford’s Blog

· Book: Microsoft Visual Studio Tips by Sara Ford

· Visual Studio Tips eBook (iPhone/iPod/iPad)

· Visual Studio Tips (O’Reilly) (Safari, PDF, eBook)

· Houston TechFest – October 9, 2010

Length: 47:42

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CodeCast Episode 74: MIX10 News on WinPhone7, Silverlight 4, and IE 9

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 74: MIX10 News on WinPhone7, Silverlight 4, and IE 9

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss the three primary news and announcement details from MIX10 – Windows Phone 7 Series developer story, Silverlight 4, and Internet Explorer 9 (HTML5 and CSS3).

Links

· MIX10 session videos

· IE 9 test drive

· Windows Phone 7 developer center

· Windows Phone 7 development blog

· Silverlight 4 tools

· @MSDN on Twitter

Length: 01:06:56

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CodeCast Episode 73: F# with Michael Hale

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 4:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 73: F# with Michael Hale

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Michael Hale, a program manager on the F# team at Microsoft. Michael discusses what’s new in F# for both Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010, various scenarios for functional programming with F#, integration of F# with C# and VB, F# with Silverlight, and the benefits for .NET developers of adding F# to their skill set.

Links

· F# Developer Center – http://fsharp.net

Length: 38:22

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CodeCast Episode 72: VS 2010 Start Page Customization with Adrian Collier

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 72: VS 2010 Start Page Customization with Adrian Collier

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy chats with Adrian Collier, a program manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio platform team. Adrian discusses the powerful new WPF based customizable start page in Visual Studio 2010. The conversation includes an overview of the new start page architecture, a new template for creating customized start pages, and scenarios of how customized start pages will enhance Visual Studio. Included is details on how using the Visual Studio SDK can extend the power of what start pages can do, how start pages can be packaged as VSIX extensions and posted on the Visual Studio Gallery and then downloaded and installed by developers via the new Extension Manager in VS 2010. Visit the Visual Studio team blog for more details about customizing the VS 2010 start page.

Links

· Visual Studio Team Blog

Length: 40:18

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CodeCast Episode 71: Microsoft MVP Summit and Windows Phone 7 Series

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 71: Microsoft MVP Summit and Windows Phone 7 Series

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short discuss the non-NDA details of the recent Microsoft MVP Summit in Redmond, WA, along with a discussion on how MVPs contribute to the community and how MVPs and the MVP Summit helps developers and users who aren’t MVPs. Also discussed is the recent news around Windows Phone 7 Series including some details and expectations of the developer story for the new mobile platform to be announced at the MIX10 in mid March.

Links

· Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)

· Windows Mobile 7 Series

· Windows Phone Blog

Length: 01:04:09

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CodeCast Episode 70: Code Camp with Chris Kinsman and Walt Ritscher

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 70: Code Camp with Chris Kinsman and Walt Ritscher

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy discusses the topic of Code Camp events with Chris Kinsman and Walt Ritscher. While the discussion is about organizing and attending Code Camp events in general, the upcoming Seattle Code Camp is discussed as an example event. Code Camp is a type of community event where developers talk with-and learn from-fellow developers, free, and anyone is welcome to attend and speak. An original Code Camp organizer, Thom Robbins, wrote a six-point manifesto: Code Camps are (1) by and for the developer community; (2) always free; (3) community developed material; (4) no fluff - only code; (5) community ownership; and (6) never occur during working hours. Seattle Code Camp v5.0 - April 17-18, 2010 - Redmond, WA (Microsoft Commons center).

Links

· Seattle Code Camp (Apr 17-18) - http://seattle.codecamp.us

· Blog: http://seattle.codecamp.us/blog

· Twitter: @SeattleCodeCamp

Length: 31:08

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CodeCast Episode 69: Virtual Brown Bag Meetings with Claudio Lassala

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 69: Virtual Brown Bag Meetings with Claudio Lassala

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Claudio Lassala, lead developer at EPS Software, and primary host of the free weekly Virtual Brown Bag meetings online via Live Meeting. The idea of a brown bag meeting is simple: once a week, people bring their “brown bag lunch” to the conference room, and we share tips and tricks. In order to cater for that online, we’re starting a “virtual” brown bag meeting. The meetings are hosted by the Virtual ALT.NET website through LiveMeeting (one of the most important aspects of ALT.NET is “continuous improvement”. The weekly schedule is every Thursday at 12:00pm noon CT (1pmET/10amPT). Claudio discusses the history, recent activity, participation information, benefits, and future plans for the Virtual Brown Bag (VBB) meetings.

Guest

· Claudio Lassala - Blog: http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Claudiolassala, Band: http://DescentIntoMadness.com

Links

· Virtual Brown Bag (VBB): http://tinyurl.com/VirtualBrownBag

Length: 25:14

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CodeCast Episode 68: Convention over Configuration, AOP with JB

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 68: Convention over Configuration, AOP with JB

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger are joined by JB who is a software developer at EPS Software. JB talks about Convention over Configuration as a general theme, about creating applications so you only have to write the code that matters rather than a bunch of code to wire things up. Technology wise, its AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming) with PostSharp, Prism, StructureMap, etc., but the idea that binds all these things together is Convention over Configuration.

Guest

· JB - Blog: http://www.theabsentmindedcoder.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/RookieOne

Links

· Convention over Configuration MSDN article by Jeremy Miller

· Prism / Composite WPF

· PostSharp

· StructureMap

· Fluent NHibernate

· Advanced WPF Workshop (Free Online Webinar) by JB (Feb 20 9:00am-1:00pm CT)

Length: 57:29

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CodeCast Episode 67: VS 2010 IDE Shell with Weston Hutchins

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 67: VS 2010 IDE Shell with Weston Hutchins

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Weston Hutchins, program manager on the Visual Studio Shell team (team responsible for the core IDE services and extensibility architecture as well as the overall look and feel of Visual Studio). Weston has worked extensively with the Ecosystem team during the Visual Studio 2010 product cycle to design the New Project Dialog and the Extension Manager. In this episode, Weston gives a tour of the new IDE shell features of Visual Studio 2010 including the various components that are new, enhanced, WPF based, etc., as well as some cool tips as preparation for upgrading from VS 2008 to VS 2010.

Guest

· Weston Hutchins - Visual Studio Blog

Links

· Visual Studio developer center

· Visual Studio Extensibility developer center

· Visual Studio Gallery

Length: 46:14

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CodeCast Episode 66: SOLID with Claudio Lassala

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 9 Feb 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 66: SOLID with Claudio Lassala

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Gary Short interview Claudio Lassala, a C# MVP, INETA Speaker, MCSD.NET, and Software Developer at EPS Software. Claudio gives an overview and discusses in depth the principles, practices, and benefits of using SOLID for .NET development.

Guest

· Claudio Lassala - Blog: http://claudiolassala.spaces.live.com, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Claudiolassala, Band: http://DescentIntoMadness.com

Links

· Virtual Brown Bag

· CODE: S.O.L.I.D. Software Development, One Step at a Time

· Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#

· Claudio on SOLID for the Virtual Alt.net: S1, S2, D

· SOLID series on DimeCasts

Length: 01:04:59

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CodeCast Episode 65: iPad, Tablet/Slate/Netbook PCs, Kindle, EPUB

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 65: iPad, Tablet/Slate/Netbook PCs, Kindle, EPUB

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy and Markus Egger discuss in depth the new Apple iPad for both consumers/users and developers/businesses. This special show includes a detailed conversation of all the key details (hardware and software) of the newly announced iPad, with discussions on how it relates to PC based tablets, slates, and netbooks. The chat also includes how iPad and relative PC based devices can be used by developers in various ways for productivity and education. Plus, how the iPad is both a competitor and complement to Kindle devices and Amazon Kindle eBooks, as well as developers publishing content via EPUB format. CODE Magazine is available electronically via Kindle format which also includes reading on a PC (Mac soon), iPhone, iPod Touch, and on iPad via the free Kindle app.

Links

· Apple iPad

· iLounge: First Look In Progress: Apple iPad

· EPUB

· CODE Magazine on Kindle store

· CodeCast Episode 48: iPhone Development for .NET Developers

Length: 01:24:00

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CodeCast Episode 64: MSBuild with Chuck England

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 64: MSBuild with Chuck England

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chuck England who is a program manager on the Visual Studio platform team at Microsoft responsible for MSBuild. This in-depth technical and scenario discussion includes detailed information on how and why to use MSBuild, either with Visual Studio 2008 or with new added features in Visual Studio 2010. New MSBuild features in VS 2010 include: New object model, new scheduler, Visual C++ now supported under MSBuild, new language features.

Links

· C++ Support

· Before / After Targets

Length: 01:09:53

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CodeCast Episode 63: 2009 Year in Review

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 9 Jan 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 63: 2009 Year in Review

In this special episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short summarize news, technologies, and products from 2009, then discuss predictions and new year resolutions for 2010.

Overall 2009 in review (Intro)
Windows 7 (14:10)
Expression and Visual Studio 2010 (22:10)
Tech industry news, Oracle buying Sun (24:57)
NUI (Natural User Interface) (28:56)
Digital content and readers (37:14)
Design UI, web, and client apps (41:39)
ASP.NET MVC (50:00)
Prism and MVVM pattern, RIA services (58:27)
Azure (59:18)
Virtualization (01:01:20)
Silverlight and WPF (01:05:31)
Bing (01:07:09)
Online multimedia (01:15:19)
Mobile devices and platforms (01:16:52)
Social media, content, and platforms (01:24:15)
2010 predictions (01:31:00)
New year resolutions, 2009 predictions review (01:37:29)

Length: 01:45:46

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CodeCast Episode 62: GiveCamp with Chris Koenig

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 6 Jan 2010 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 62: GiveCamp with Chris Koenig

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Chris Koenig, a developer evangelist for Microsoft in the Dallas, Texas offices. This is an in-depth discussion about the history, status, and roadmap for GiveCamp events in various cities. GiveCamp was an idea hatched by Chris a few years ago, and now there are many GiveCamp events organized around the country with expansion plans this year. GiveCamp is a weekend long event where software developers, designers, and database administrators donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. Some events focus on a specific technology like Microsoft .NET using Visual Studio or Expression Web. But using other technologies is often a possibility such as using Graffiti, Sitefinity, DotNetNuke, Wordpress, Joomla, mojoPortal, Drupal, etc. The custom software created at GiveCamp could be a new website, a small data-collection application to keep track of members, Facebook page, a rich client or even a mobile application..This episode of CodeCast is educational for any developers or organizers considering volunteering to participate in and benefit from an upcoming GiveCamp event.

Guest

· Chris Koenig - Blog: http://chriskoenig.net, Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChrisKoenig

Links

· GiveCamp: http://givecamp.org

· @GiveCamp: http://twitter.com/GiveCamp

Length: 62:15

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CodeCast Episode 61: RIA Services with Silverlight and more

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 61: RIA Services with Silverlight and more

In this episode of CodeCast, co-hosts Ken Levy, Markus Egger, and Gary Short discuss Microsoft RIA Services. RIA (Rich Internet Applications). Microsoft describes RIA Services as simplifying the traditional n-tier application pattern by bringing together the ASP.NET and Silverlight platforms. RIA Services provides a pattern to write application logic that runs on the mid-tier and controls access to data for queries, changes and custom operations. It also provides end-to-end support for common tasks such as data validation, authentication and roles by integrating with Silverlight components on the client and ASP.NET on the mid-tier.

Links

· WCF RIA Services home on Silverlight.net

· Brad Abrams : What is .NET RIA Services?

· WCF RIA Services Code Gallery

· WCF RIA Services Beta for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Length: 64:27

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CodeCast Episode 60: Visual Studio 2010 editor with Chris Granger

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 60: Visual Studio 2010 editor with Chris Granger

In this episode of CodeCast, KenLevy interviews Chris Granger, program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft, working on the new VS IDE editor (WPF based). Chris goes in-depth on the new VS 2010 editor including many of the cool features native to the editor as well as under-the-hood extensions architecture using the Visual Studio SDK. With the new managed editor API extensions and WPF/XAML based UI, a new generation of source code editing capabilities will evolve with VS 2010.

Links

· MSDN Library - What's New in the Visual Studio 2010 Editor

· Visual Studio 2010 Beta – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio

· Visual Studio Gallery - http://visualstudiogallery.com

· Visual Studio Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio

· VS Editor on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSEditor

· Soma’s blog post – Creating extensions for VS 2010

· VSX samples on MSDN Code Gallery – http://code.msdn.com/vsx

· VS 2010 editor samples on CodePlex - http://editorsamples.codeplex.com

Length: 31:39

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CodeCast Episode 59: VS 2010 SDK and Extension Manager with Quan To

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 59: VS 2010 SDK and Extension Manager with Quan To

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Quan To, senior program manager on the VS platform team at Microsoft. This is a follow-up discussion enhancements to the current and upcoming versions of the Visual Studio 2010 SDK for creating free and product based extensions. Also discussed is the new Extension Manager in VS 2010 for browsing (via WPF UI) and installing free VS extensions hosted on visualstudiogallery.com.

Guests

· Quan To – Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto

Links

· Visual Studio 2010 Beta – http://microsoft.com/visualstudio

· Visual Studio Gallery - http://visualstudiogallery.com

· Visual Studio Team Blog - http://blogs.msdn.com/visualstudio

· VS Editor on Twitter – http://twitter.com/VSEditor

· Soma’s blog post – Creating extensions for VS 2010

· VSX samples on MSDN Code Gallery – http://code.msdn.com/vsx

Length: 26:46

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CodeCast Episode 58: msdn.com content and strategy with Kerby Kuykendall

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 58: msdn.com content and strategy with Kerby Kuykendall

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Kerby Kuykendall who is the lead site manager for msdn.com at Microsoft. The discussion includes recent msdn.com developer center UI updates, the latest msdn.com content/nav taxonomy, differences between msdn.com dev centers, strategy of pre-sales (microsoft.com) vs. post-sales (msdn.com) vs. beta/CTP sites vs Channel 9 vs asp.net/silverlight.net. Tips like viewing lite version of MSDN Library content, aggregated and community content, plans for updating msdn.com dev centers, where/how Silverlight is used, and what some roadmap details for msdn.com.

Guest

· Kerby Kuykendall - Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/kerby_kuykendall, Twitter: http://twitter.com/kerbyk

Links

· http://msdn.com

Length: 46:03

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CodeCast Episode 57: Expression for Silverlight and WPF

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 57: Expression for Silverlight and WPF

In this episode of CodeCast, Markus Egger and Ken Levy discuss a short re-cap of the recent DevConnections and PDF conferences, and talk in depth about using Expression with Visual Studio for WPF and Silverlight development, including the upcoming update to Expression for Silverlight 4.

Links

· Microsoft Expression – http://microsoft.com/expression

· Microsoft PDC videos online - http://microsoftpdc.com/videos

Length: 54:26

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CodeCast Episode 56: Videos on msdn.com with Jeremy Kelley

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Sat, 5 Dec 2009 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 56: Videos on msdn.com with Jeremy Kelley

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy interviews Jeremy Kelley of Microsoft, who is a program manager on the msdn.com team. Jeremy discusses the state and future of videos (How-Do-I videos, screencasts, etc) hosted on msdn.com dev centers and TechNet sites, how they relate to Channel 9 videos that also use Silverlight, various formats, and roadmap plans for 2010 with videos on msdn.com.

Guest

· Jeremy Kelley – Blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/JeremyKelley, Twitter: http://twitter.com/Fizzlenik

Links

· http://msdn.com

· TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com

Length: 42:04

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CodeCast Episode 55: TechEd Europe 2009 Review and Silverlight 4

codecast@code-magazine.com (CODE Magazine) — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 5:0:0 GMT

CodeCast Episode 55: TechEd Europe 2009 Review and Silverlight 4

In this episode of CodeCast, Ken Levy and Gary Short summarize TechEd Europe 2009, and discuss in depth the recent announcements of upcoming features included in Silverlight 4 and new scenarios it will open up for developers. Some of the new features coming in Silverlight 4 include extended out of browser functionality, offline DRM, elevated trust applications, group policy file support, UAC client support, COM access, ActiveX support, DLL access, file access APIs, cross-domain, and web browser HTML control with plug-ins. The discussion on Silverlight 4 segment starts at minute marker 15:22.

Links

· Silverlight 4 Beta - http://silverlight.net/getstarted/silverlight-4-beta

· TechEd Europe 2009 - http://www.microsoft.com/europe/TechEd

Length: 35:43

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