.NET Rocks!

Eric Swedin Looks Back in Time

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Mark Dunn joins Carl for this fun look back at the history of computers with Eric Swedin, author of Computers: The Life Story of a Technology.

Daniel Simmons on Entity Framework v1!

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Dan Simmons is back this time to announce the release of the Entity Framework, and to answer some questions about it's architecture and use. Version 1 will ship around August 11th.

Stacy Harris Does Home Automation!

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Charles Stacy Harris talks about technologies used to automate his home using .NET interfaces. Geek out!

Kate Gregory Develops in C++ for Vista!

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Carl and Richard catch up with Kate Gregory to talk Vista, VB, C++, and her latest thoughts and experiences.

James Kovacs Inverts our Control!

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

James Kovacs talks about the Castle Windsor project, and gives the clearest definitions of Inversion of Control (IOC) containers, Dependency Injection, and the reasons why we need to think about these techniques. Critical listening for all .NET developers.

Jeffrey Richter on the Windows Memory Model

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Jeff Richter is back to talk about how Windows manages memory, from the early versions of Windows to the .NET Framework. Geek out!

Ted Neward and Joel Pobar on Rotor 2.0

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Ted Neward and Joel Pobar talk about Rotor, the open source .net framework reference implementation. Ted and Joel have written a book on Rotor 2.0

Brian Randell on Hyper-V and Virtualization

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Brian Randell is back to talk about Microsoft Virtualization technologies focusing on Hyper-V, the kernel-level virtualization technology built into Windows Server 2008.

TechEd 2008 Software Quality Panel

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

This is as close to Jerry Springer as we get! A great panel discussion from TechEd 2008 about balancing software quality with other factors such as cost and time taken.

Nathan Pocock on OPC and Factory Automation

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Carl and Richard get the skinny from Nathan Pocock on OPC (open process collabaration), and the advances made using OPC as a comprehensive interface with PLCs (programmable logic controllers).

XML Literals Panel from TechEd 2008

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Carl and Richard host a panel discussion at the TechEd Online stage at TechEd 2008, subtitled How I Learned to Love Dim.

Ted Faison Takes Events to the Limit!

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Carl and Richard talk to Ted Faison as part of the whole back to basics initiative at DNR about Event-Driven design.

Donald Belcham and Kyle Baley on Brownfield Applications

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Donald Belcham and Kyle Baley talk to Carl and Richard about inheriting existing (brownfield) applications. The focus of this talk is on setting up the environment before tackling the code with a special focus on testing.

Smart Client Panel at TechEd 2008

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Carl and Richard interview Glenn Block, Steve Lasker, and Tim Huckaby on the state of the Smart Client.

Eric Brechner on IM Wright's Hard Code

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Carl and Richard talk to Eric Brechner, the author of the book 'I. M. Wright's Hard Code', an opinion blog (and book) with a tude!

Rick Strahl on AJAX and jQuery

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Rick Strahl takes us on a tour through using jQuery to do all the heavy lifting in JavaScript.

Dan and Kathleen on Kids and Computing

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Dan Appleman and Kathleen Dollard have a lot to say about kids: computing, and programming. This is a great show for parents or anyone who works with kids.

Scott Hunter on Microsoft Dynamic Data

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Carl and Richard talk with Scott Hunter on Microsoft's Dynamic Data Runtime, which provides scaffolding and dynamic data services to developers.

Scott Stanfield on Deep Zoom and PhotoSynth!

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Scott Stanfield talks about Deep Zoom, PhotoSynth, his Mix keynote, and all the cool toys he gets to play with.

John Lam Updates Us on IronRuby!

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT

John Lam talks about his work with the DLR and Iron Ruby at Microsoft.