
Kate Gregory on C+++, VB.NET, and VSTO
Kate Gregory talks to Carl (in this retro interview-only show) about the new C++, why she prefers VB.NET over C#, Visual Studio Tools for Office, OOP, Sockets, and merry old England! This is the first of our attempt to make .NET Rocks! more geeky and less freaky! We hope you like it!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
8 Nov 20041h 12min

Jay Roxe Rocks!
Microsoft Product Manager for Visual Basic.NET, Jay Roxe drops by to talk about his work on the .NET Framework including System.Object, System.String, and System.Text.StringBuilder. In the second half he talks about VB.NET 2005, about the decisions Microsoft made regarding features and ship dates, and about how he thinks VB.NET 2005 will go a long way toward making .NET accessible to the masses of business programmers worldwide.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
1 Nov 20041h 58min

Juval Löwy on .NET 2.0
Juval Löwy joins Carl, Rory, and the gang this week for a romp through .NET 2.0 in all its glory. Juval talks about serialization now and in 2.0, the new System.Transaction namespace and how cool it really is, putting System.EnterpriseServices in perspective, some quick lip service to generics (although he discussed that in show #34), and a little criticism of the new Visual Studio 2005. Thom Robbins joins us in the second half to talk about his recent CodeCamp event, and the New England district. Richard is still climbing mountains, but Rory is on fire with Google Weirdos and Ask Rory. Kirk has some good websites as well. Warning: this show is rated at least PG-13.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
25 Okt 20042h 8min

The Whidbey Show
We try to have representatives from Microsoft on the show every once in a while to talk about what's happening in Redmond. This week we had four program managers for the Evangelism team: Scott Burmester, Steve Cellini, Carter Maslan, and Jeff Sandquist. The topic? Whidbey! We get a check up on the progress of the next version of .NET. We talked at length about the up-and-coming Visual Studio 2005 Team System, and the efforts to reach application developers who don't necessarily spend time in the development community. We also ask each of them to tell us something about Whidbey that we probably don't already know. All in all it's a good show, even if Rory and Richard are on vacation.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
18 Okt 20041h 59min

Chris Sells Checks In
.NET Rocks! regular guest (and guest host) Chris Sells joins Carl and the gang for a really fun discussion (after he comments on the mail and news) about Longhorn and WinFX, Longhorn features on XP, working on the MSDN Smart Client DevCenter, VS.NET 2005, learning about new technologies, learning by teaching, and Avalon. He answers some good technical questions from live listeners, and overall makes the two hours fly by. Of course you get the mail, news of the week, Weird Wide Webb, and Ask Rory. Richard is away this week so Carl gave away an iPod to a lucky listener!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
11 Okt 20041h 58min

Fritz Onion on ASP.NET
Noted author and software engineer Fritz Onion is our guest this week on .NET Rocks! After lavishing praise on F.O. for what seemed an eternity, Carl and Rory get down to the HTTP Pipeline, the HTTPContext, User Controls, Web Controls, and what Fritz likes (and dislikes) about the current beta of ASP.NET 2.0. Among other accomplishments, Fritz is the author of the best-selling Essential ASP.NET published by Addison Wesley.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
4 Okt 20042h 3min

Richard Hale Shaw Speaks!
Industry guru Richard Hale Shaw talks to the guys about what's on his mind. Namely, patterns, practices, anti-practices and anti-patterns, best practices, patterns in .NET, the future of C++ and managed code, VB6 as the ultimate anti-pattern, lack of OOP in ASP.NET 1.1, and looking forward to ASP.NET 2.0. We also listened to a bit of one of Richard's favorite tunes, What is Hip by Tower of Power. Mail, News, New music from Rory Blyth, Weird Wide Webb, and Richard the Toy Boy.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
27 Sep 20042h 10min

Joe Stagner on Hacking and Other Lost Arts
Joe Stagner stopped by to talk about his recent experiences at BorCon, experiences with the Open Source community, Java, and Delphi. In the second half we talked about Rory joining the MSDN evangelism team, VB.NET 2005, the CLR 2.0, XP Service Pack 2 and website security. Joe did a session at TechEd 2004 called "How Hackers Hack" which was the number two highest-attended session! This was a great talk with a very talented developer turned evangelist who keeps it real every day. Also, Mail, News of the Week, Weird Wide Webb, Ask Rory, and Richard the Toy Boy.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations
20 Sep 20042h 1min