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Paul talks with Mark and Carl about ASP.NET performance tuning, tips, viewstate info, smart navigation, layout mode and more, and Paul shares some great insights and stories from the field. Lots of great tips and information here. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

14 Apr 20031h 9min

Carl and Mark talk to Andrew about data binding, data adapters, connected and dis-connected models, stored procedures, performance and encapsulation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

31 Mar 20031h 8min

Carl and Mark talk with Ethan and Bob about the Good Old Days of the BASIC language, and some of their experiences early on in the first days of the industry, as well as PowerBASIC past, present, and future, crazy tech-support calls, and other stories.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

24 Mar 200352min

Stephen talks about the International .NET Association (INETA - www.ineta.org), relates his .NET success stories, and talks about design patterns, COM Interop, Performance Anxiety, ASP.NET Forms Authentication, ViewState, Caching, and the DataGrid control. The DataGrid Girl (www.datagridgirl.com) calls and yaks with Carl, Mark, and Stephen about the ASP.NET DataGrid. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

17 Mar 20031h 11min

Bill talks with us again picking up where our last conversation with him left off, talking about ADO.NET concurrency, SQL database design, dealing with Data Adapters, and a few other interesting tangents. Always good stuff with Mr. V!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

10 Mar 200353min

Mark Dunn is on temporary leave in Redmond, WA this week teaching a beta Architecture class. Scott and Carl chat about .NET, C#, Reflection, Regular Expressions, Freeware, Code Sharing, Config Files, Sockets, Multi-Threaded programming, and a laundry list of Scott's favorite utilities (shown below) that you just have to check out. We had a few comments that the shows were not loud enough. So, starting with this show the volume has been maximized. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

3 Mar 20031h 7min

Alan has a lot to say about programming, programmers, and focuses intently on what's wrong with programming as we know it. Why do businesspeople fear programmers? Is the construction of software managed? These topics and more are the focus of this monumental episode of .NET Rocks! Alan tells the story of that meeting where he showed Visaul Basic (then code-named Ruby) to Bill Gates and his people. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

27 Jan 20031h 22min

Michele discusses the differences between programming in Java space vs. .NET from her own first hand experience.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

20 Jan 20031h 10min