Sam Gentile on COM Interop

Carl and Mark have a chat with Sam Gentile (pronounced gen-TILL-ee) about sci-fi authors, COM Interop's problems, Extreme Programming, dual programming, unit testing, Sam's thoughts on the state of the .NET Framework, Groove, what's wrong with Com Interop, the cross-platform potential of the .NET Framework, the CLI, Rotor and Mono.

Don Box on SOAP and WSE

Carl and Mark have a chat with the one and only Don Box about SOAP, WSE, Longhorn, Indigo, COM, the PDC, Band on the Runtime, and the meaning of life. Don reveals a few gems about Indigo, and talks about the ways in which Indigo makes web services better.

Robert Green on Visual Studio Tools for Office

Carl and Mark talk to Robert about the new Visual Studio Tools for Office, VBA, XML, Office and DataSets, Scripting, and using Word and Excel as the User Interface layer for your .NET framework applications. Robert also talks about some features of up-coming versions of these tools in the Whidbey timeframe. This is great stuff!

Pat Hynds on Security

Carl talks with pat about Security, from the general concepts to the practical tips and in between. Pat draws on his millitary background to render a keen understanding of how to secure today's complex systems. You will pick up some great tips, and hopefully start thinking of security issues in your everyday development efforts after listening to this show. Pat Rocks!

The .NET Rocks Quiz Show at the PDC

Robert Scoble on Blogging

Carl and Mark talk to Robert about Blogging, Longhorn, and the PDC. Lots of great stories, blogging for dummies, and a sneak peak at what happened at the PDC. They also talk about security, and Merrill Lynch's open letter to Sun, among other things.

Scott Guthrie on ASP.NET 2.0

Carl and Mark chat with Scott about the new features of ASP.NET 2.0 (code-named Whidbey). Scott's keen understanding of the high and low-level features of Whidbey, Yukon, and IIS 6.0 really shine through in this interview where the topics include performance, caching and cache dependency, VS.NET tools, data access, using Yukon with ASP.NET 2.0, sharing session state, backward-compatibility, and code enhancements as well as a time-frame for when to expect alphas, betas, and the like.

Carl and Mark at the Dutch Tavern

This week Carl and Mark throw down a few pints at the historic Dutch Tavern in downtown New London, CT and you're invited! Listen to stories from their recent week of teaching a VB.NET class to 27 people, challenging code puzzles, interesting characters, and of course, beer. This is a very relaxed show, but don't think you won't learn a thing or two. C'mon! Just have one more Black and Tan! Note: The show starts out a bit noisy, then gets better. There were some rowdy people in there when we first started recording, and they left shortly afterwords.

Microsoft VB.NET Team

This is a rare opportunity to have a conversation with people at Microsoft who are so closely tied to VB and VB.NET. They talked about new features in Whidbey, the next version of Visual Basic expected out in 2004 sometime, including some features that nobody knows about outside of the Alpha program! You'll have to listen to find out what they are! Carl and Mark talked about the things they like and have disliked about VB in the past, and how VB.NET has really brought the language to the forefront of the serious development community. As well, they ask some interesting questions like, "what parts of the .NET Framework were written in VB.NET" and other goodies. There are plenty of laughs as well. If you're a VB programmer, you've got to hear this!

Marcie Robillard on the ASP.NET DataGrid

Her area of expertise is (obviously) the ASP.NET DataGrid. She talks with Mark and Carl about various aspects of the DataGrid. She talks about common mistakes, common solutions, workarounds, what is it best suited for, what is it not suited well for, etc. Marcie also talks about Inheritance and web controls, managing viewstate, custom columns, blogging, and some of her favorite books on ASP.NET

Brent Rector on Intellectual Property and CAS

Mark and Carl talk with Brent about intellectual property, namely assembly and application obfuscation: techniques used, and the resultant binaries. They also talk about Remoting and get Brent's take on the value of Remoting. But the big gem in this show, we think, is Brent's 5-minute description of how Code Access Security works, which we immediately recognize as something very special.

Juval Löwy (Again)

This week, Carl and Mark talk to Juval Lowy about, among other things, the new version of C# (2.0). Of the new features, Juval's favorite is Generics. Generics allow you to define data structures without committing to actual data types. This results with significant performance boost, higher quality code and faster development, because you get to reuse data processing algorithms without duplicating type-specific code

Carl and Mark Fly Solo!

This week Carl and Mark got to do a show they've been waiting for a long time to do. The conversation touches on the new application blocks (bluebricks - from the MS Patterns and Practices Group), string handling, using the BitConverter class for fast file i/o, serialization, XMLDataDocuments and XSLT, inheritance, instrumentation, the ASP.NET Cache object, and some great stories from the trenches, especially Mark's great training stories which always contain an array of shady characters and companies. All in all, its an hour well spent for .NET developers

Matthew Reynolds (.NET 247)

Carl engaged Matthew in a lively discussion about his incredible website (.NET 24/7) which provides instant gratification for help on any of the classes in the .NET framework in the form of links to published articles, newsgroup discussions, and blog entries. Matthew is a big fan of weblogs, which he discusses in the interview. They also talked about the C# vs. VB.NET issue, and other issues associated with particular languages. As well, the conversation touched on the next versions of the framework and VS.NET. Matthew is happy to receive comments or feedback on any topic via his webblog at weblogs.asp.net. Please don't send us email about the poor quality of the audio. The source recording was not good, and we have made it as good as it can be.

Tim Huckaby

Tim talks about projects, demos, info-path, drinking water out of a vodka bottle, VS Tools for Office, Speaking at Tech-Ed, smart clients and all the stuff he learned working at Microsoft in Redmond.