.NET Rocks!

Carl and Richard run into Miguel Castro at a hotel bar at the MVP Summit 2005 in Bellevue, WA. This is the first real show we've done on Web Controls, and it has been a long time coming. There is so much technical information in this show you'll have to listen several times at possibly a slower speed.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Carl and Richard interview three members of the Visual Basic team at PDC 2005. The conversation turns from favorite features of VB 2005 to LINQ to XML in VB.2005 to Orcas, best and worst moments on the VB team. We are also treated to a short after-dinner converation with Ted Pattison, George Bullock, Joe Hummel, and David Chappell.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

In this episode, Carl and Richard get an hour with David Treadwell, VP of the .NET Framework Developer Division. David talks about his career at Microsoft from being the intern developer on Windows NT to his current role on the .NET Framework team, and offers his thoughts on the future of Windows and managed code.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jackie Goldstein returns to talk about the ADO.NET, the data tools in Visual Studio .NET 2005, SQL 2005 Express and the starter kits he's been authoring for it.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Joel Semeniuk gets us deeper into Visual Studio Team System by taking us step-by-step through the process of how it is used in the real world. Each designer is discussed in as much detail as an hour affords. For introductory information about VSTS, see show #117.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Regional Director J. Michael Palermo discusses his current passion, Code Snippets in VS 2005. You'll discover how this new feature compares to tools you may have already used, and you'll probably pick up a few productivity pointers along the way. Good stuff!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

DNR goes back to its geek roots this week with a technical talk about the Common Language Runtime (CLR). Joel and Brad talk about what they would do differently knowing what they know now, how the CLR's memory managemnet strategy was formed, and their favorite features of CLR 2.0Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

The listeners have asked for more technical content, and Rocky Lhotka delivers it! In this episode, Rocky talks about CSLA.NET and the changes for VS2005. He drills down into the details of some aspects of CSLA, and talks about his opinions on Service Oriented Architechture and Objects, and plenty more.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Jeffrey talks about his experiences listening to .NET Rocks! while on duty with the Army Reserve in Iraq, and shares his ideas about architecture, ASP.NET, XHTML, CSS, and other things.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations

Richard Costall and Andy Brown talk about two large scale production applications, one Smart Client and one ASP.NET app based on the beta 2 release of VS 2005 and the Framework 2.0. Hear about how they have dealt with compatability in a heterogenous client envyronment, some praise for the Microsoft Ascend program, how they utilize Web Services and ADO.NET, and more!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations