Elements Mercury with Marc Hoffman

He talks with us about the current blocks available, for ADO.NET and Exception Handling, and also gives us a sneak peek at the next bluebricks coming down the road, including a User Interface facade layer, an application updater (using the BITS Background Internet Transfer Service), and a Configuration Manager block for dealing with config files, including code for persisting connection strings. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

28 Apr 20031h 21min

Dino shares some valuable tips and insights into the innerworkings of ASP.NET security, IIS Impersonation, how VIEWSTATE is encoded, the serialization engine, how to store encrypted values in the registry, inline code vs. CodeBehind, and Italian Rock bands. We also learn that Dino has an extreme distaste for barbeque. Dino shares some topics of some of his best articles, including an ASP.NET control that generates a bar chart with pure html tables. He talks about one of the talks that he'll be doing at DevConnections in which he shows you how to write Plug-ins that users can add into your applications. He also talked about his new 1000-page book, Programming Microsoft ASP.NET Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

21 Apr 20031h 9min

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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 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 Mars 20031h 7min