.NET Rocks!

Stories from the Dallas GiveCamp

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

What do you get when you cross a hundered or so geeks, mountains of pizza, truckloads of energy drinks, and a mission to help the charities of the world beef up their online offerings? GiveCamp.

Toad + ,NET = Datadude for Oracle

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Carl and Richard talk to Daniel Norwood and Daniel Wood (I know) from Quest Software, makers of Toad - data tools for Oracle. Now providing Toad Extention for Visual Studio .NET, bringing all of the Datadude features of Visual Studio to Oracle developers.

Brad Frazer on Copyright, SLAs and more

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Brad Frazer talks to Carl and Richard about copyright law as it applies to protecting digital media, content, and software.

Oren Emie on Creating DSLs in Boo

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST

Oren Enie talks about creating Domain Specific Languates in Boo.

It's the Visual Studio 2010 Launch Show!

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Carl and Richard talk to Dave Mendlen and Sam Gazitt from Microsoft about the launch event April 12-14, 2010 at the Bellagio in Las Vegas where .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 will be officially launched.

Joel Semeniuk on using TFS with small teams

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Joel is back to talk about how small development teams can best utilize Team Foundation Server.

NASA Pathfinder Innovation Challenge

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Michelle Viotti and Dr. Jeff Norris from NASA along with Marc Mercuri from Microsoft talk to Carl and Richard about their joint project, the Pathfinder Innovation Challenge in which .NET developers can help NASA make sense of the mountains of data coming back from Mars.

Stephen Toub on .NET 4.0 Concurrency Features

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Stephen Toub talks to the boys about the new concurrency features in .NET 4.0.

Bret Piatt and Josh Odom RackSpace Clouds

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Bret Piatt and Josh Odom from Rackspace talk about their company's offerings for hosting in the cloud.

Ron Jacobs on Azure AppFabric

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Ron Jacobs talks to Carl and Richard about the Windows Azure platform AppFabric, which provides secure connectivity as a service to help developers bridge cloud, on-premises, and hosted deployments.

Walling and Taber on Micropreneur Academy.

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Rob Walling and Mike Taber talk about the Micropeneur Academy, a web-based community with the mission to assist one-man tech companies in reaching their goals. Membership is not free, but it's not expensive either.

Kent Brown and Ed Pinto on WCF 4.0

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Richard and Carl talk to Kent Brown and Ed Pinto about the new features of WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) 4.0, which will be released April 12, 2010.

Catching up with Juval Löwy

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Juval is back to talk to Carl and Richard. They get to the bottom of his "Every Object Should be a WCF Service" argument, and get his insights into the current state of .NET development.

oData

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Carl and Richard get the word on oData from Brad Abrams, Bob Dimpsey and Lance Olson.

My .NET Story

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Carl and Richard pick the winner for the My .NET Story contest held by Mirosoft. Contestants submitted their projects and were judged by a panel of experts. Includes short interviews with the finalists.

Jason Olson Digs into the CLR 4.0

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

What's new in the CLR? Jason Olson goes through some of the most important new features.

Ivar Jacobson on the Unified Process

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Carl and Richard talk to the father of UML and the Unified Process, Ivar Jacobson. He recently put forth the Essential Unified Process (EssUp). Not to be missed.

Stephen Walther On ASP.NET AJAX 4.0

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Stephen Walther talks about the latest version (4) of ASP.NET AJAX and all the associated technologies.

Julie Lerman on Entity Framework 4.0

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Julie is back to talk about the improvements to the Entity Framework in version 4.0.

Michael Learned on TFS Nuts and Bolts

dotnetrocks@franklins.net (Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell) — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 EST

Michael Learned from Microsoft Premier Field Engineering dives deep into Team Foundation Server.